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Barnes & Noble is expanding its Nook Video movie and television catalog, announcing content licensing agreements with major Hollywood studios including Paramount Pictures, MGM, Lionsgate and Relativity Media. The bookseller has also inked video deals with National Geographic, digital entertainment distributor FilmBuff and Little Pim, which produces foreign-language instructional DVDs for children.

A new commercial spotlighting the upcoming Paramount Pictures feature  Star Trek Into Darkness  quietly introduced a new promotional tool for Apple's developer partners: Customized App Store short links designed to make it easier for consumers to find and install iOS applications.

Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX ), a company that made its name and its fortune (as such) by delivering DVDs through the mail, is working on a deal with start-up pay TV channel Epix for "exclusive online

Time Warner Cable boosted its first quarter profit by 30 percent by adding more Internet, phone and digital cable TV customers at the same time that it was following an industry trend and losing