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Apple and Google seem to have a new competitor in the battle to secure streaming rights for TV episodes in Netflix, according a report in the NYPost. The company, which has long offered past episodes of TV shows online and via DVD, is offering studios between $70k-$100k per episode for the right to stream current episodes to subscribers. Netflix has already struck a deal with NBC Universal last month for the rights to stream Saturday Night Live the day after it airs on the network.
 

 
Studio streaming joint venture Hulu is seeking foreign investors in a bid to expand its service to overseas markets, per the WSJ.

Turning its attention to the mobile space, social gaming giant Zynga has acquired McKinney, Texas-based mobile game development company Newtoy, Inc., makers of the “Games With Friends” franchise that includes mobile games “Words With Friends” and “Chess With Friends.” Zynga recently launched it top game “Farmville” on both the iPhone and the iPad and named Zynga Poker as the first Zynga game to be launched on Android.
 
Former Seinfeld supporting character Jackie Chiles, the fast-talking attorney played by Phil Morris, has been his awarded his own series on FunnyOrDie.com, reports the AP. Jackie made two appearances on the site last month, shot from his newly-installed L.A. legal offices.
 
AdGent Digital introduced a new Foursquare-style check in button that publishers can place on their pages to enhance user loyalty and reward users. “TISM,” (short for This is Social Media,) enables audiences to check in when they see a corresponding button on a participating site in order to rack up virtual and real prizes.
 

 
MTV and Panache have teamed to launch a new premium ad format with “fast-forward” capabilities, allowing consumers to forward through an ad while still displaying a branded presence. The idea is to provide a format for repurposing TV creative suitable for impatient online viewers. The HTML5-based format, compatible with the iPad, has been running in a Samsung campaign on Comedy Central, accruing some 1.5 million views and a completion rate of 89% to date, according to Panache. 
 
Video ad technology firm Mixpo announced a new offering that helps transform on-air promotional spots into interactive spots for online distribution. Local TV stations can integrate tools such as day- and week-parting and real-time feeds (including news content) to extend on-air promotions using their existing website inventory.
 

 
4G mobile broadband service Clearwire secured some much needed additional capital, announcing plans for a $1.1 billion debt offering. Clearwire also introduced the “Clear Modem with Wi-Fi,” a dual-mode adapter that combines 4G WiMax with Wi-Fi wireless connectivity.
 
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission officially approved the proposed search partnership that will allow Softbank-controlled Yahoo Japan to utilize Google‘s search results. Combined, the two companies will make up more than 90% of the search market in Japan.
 

 
Cloud-based services, mobile computing and social networking will mature and coalesce into a new mainstream platform for both the IT industry and surrounding industries it serves in the coming year, according to a new report from IDC, with spending on public IT cloud services growing by 30% alone in 2011.
 

 
Flip Video is launching a new video holiday greeting card app on Facebook that will be integrated from Dec. 15 through its FlipShare software that comes pre-loaded on the Flip camcorder or can be updated through the flip.com web site.
 

 
Settling an eventful feud with John Malone, media mogul Barry Diller has officially stepped down as of IAC/Interactive Corp as Liberty Media announced its sale of its $220 million share in IAC to the company. After the deal, Mr. Diller will own shares representing approximately 34% of the total votes of all classes of IAC stock, the largest individual voting stake in the company. Greg Blatt, who has served as CEO of IAC’s Match.com since early 2009, will take over as CEO of IAC.
 
Dow Jones & Co. named Alisa Bowen as GM of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, overseeing development and operations for WSJ.com, Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, SmartMoney.com, AllThingsD.com and their mobile applications. She reports directly to Dow Jones President Todd Larsen. Alisa had spent nearly 10 years with Thompson Reuters, most recently as SVP and head of business operations.
 
Bright House Networks hired Dick Amell as Corporate VP of Video Engineering and Operations. He will report to Jeff Chen, SVP/Advanced Technology of Bright House Networks.
 
Wayne D. Thorsen has joined online audience data firm BlueKai in the newly created position of VP/Strategic Partnerships. He comes to BlueKai from San Francisco-based Krux Digital.
 
Clearwire announced that Sprint will submit three new nominations to fill the vacant seats on Clearwire’s Board of Directors, to be filled by William R. Blessing, Mufit Cinali and Hossein Eslambolchi.
 

 
Google TV‘s software is going to have to get a lot more snazzy if the platform is ever going to make an impact on the marketplace. (People aren’t going to buy it to watch TV shows.) The company has now added a new channel creation feature to the YouTube LeanBack interface, enabling users to build their own “channels” based on their own interests. Click on the “create channels” button to pull up a menu of recommended videos based on what you’ve already watched or build one from scratch by entering a search term. Channels you create get added to the line-up of pre-preprogrammed channels and become better (and more complexly) defined the more videos you watch.
 
Later —
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis Digital
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12.03.10

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