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Interactive TV News Round-Up (III): icueTV, Groupon, Imagina US, CMC, Insight, itaas

Submitted by tracyswedlow on June 13, 2011 - 8:18pm
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--icueTV Teaming with Groupon on tcommerce Demo at Cable Show
--Imagina US Taps Comcast Media Center for VOD Delivery
--Insight Taps itaas for EBIF Deployment
--itaas Launches iLaunch Program to Expedite Development and Deployment of EBIF Apps

Due to the large volume of news being generated this week by the Cable Show, we are covering today's stories in abbreviated round-up/summary form:

Verizon FiOS TV Launches Interactive TV Coupon Widget

Submitted by tracyswedlow on February 3, 2010 - 10:08pm
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--Widget Is Part of Cross-Platform Digital Couponing Partnership with Cellfire

Verizon has launched a Spend Smart interactive TV coupon widget in its FiOS TV Widget Bazaar Applications Marketplace as part of a cross-platform initiative with electronic and mobile couponing specialist, Cellfire, that also sees it offering free Spend Smart coupons on its Wireless and Internet services. According to the company, Cellfire's Spend Smart coupons cover a wide range of products and can be redeemed at over 4,000 locations of more than 20 national grocery chains, including ShopRite, Safeway and Kroger. Coupon brands and products rotate every two weeks, the company says, with more than $25 in monthly grocery discounts available at any given time.

AT&T Launches Two More Interactive TV Apps on its U-verse TV Platform

Submitted by tracyswedlow on November 18, 2009 - 2:38am
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--Apps are "Caller ID on TV" and "Offers On Demand"
--Company Has Launched 12 IPTV Apps This Year

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AT&T on Tuesday announced the launch of two free interactive TV applications on its Microsoft Mediaroom powered IPTV platform, U-verse TV: Offers On Demand, an app that allows customers to redeem a coupon code on-screen for discounts on movie rentals; and Caller ID on TV. The launch of the new apps brings the number of free apps that have been rolled out on U-verse TV, since its initial launch, to 20--with 12 of those apps having been launched this year alone. "These apps make U-verse services even more useful and interactive for our customers, and that's exactly what every app should do," Jeff Weber, VP of video services for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, said in a prepared statement.

New Interactive TV Company, Intertainment Broadcasting Corporation, Launches

Submitted by tracyswedlow on July 22, 2009 - 11:59pm
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An Irvine, Calif.-based interactive TV start-up called Intertainment Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) announced its existence via a press release, Wednesday, in which it stated that it plans to "deliver live and interactive programming via TV and Internet, nationwide, through [a] partnership with a leading cable and satellite company in the US, beginning September, 2009." The company says it has filed two preliminary patents, "including...technology to allow viewers to immediately purchase gift cards in real time. The industries of the gift card companies are woven into the topics of conversation shows," it adds.

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