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Vimeo gets into the original content game after funding six new ‘High Maintenance’ episodes

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by on May 29, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web

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Taking a page from the Netflix playbook, Vimeo has invested in its first original TV show. The company is funding a further six episodes of the Web series High Maintenance, which has already released 13 episodes and a couple of video extras on the platform. The show was created by Katja Blichfield, a casting director for 30 Rock with an Emmy Award to her name, and husband Ben Sinclair, who plays the lead character in High Maintenance and is also the show’s director, writer and producer. High Maintenance follows a nameless cannabis dealer in good ol’ New York. Each episode…

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Virgin Media launches full slate of Quad-Play subscription bundles for broadband, landline, mobile and TV

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by on May 29, 2014 at 10:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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We knew it was coming, but UK media and telecoms giant Virgin Media has launched its full slate of so-called ‘Quad-Play’ bundles, pulling together broadband, landline, TV and mobile SIMs into single subscription packages. The first two of these bundles, the ‘Big Kahuna’ and the ‘Big Bang’, had been made available to existing Virgin Media customers already. But now they are joined by the ‘Big Easy’, ‘Big Daddy’, and ‘Big Connection’, though the latter of these doesn’t actually include TV so this isn’t technically a Quad-Play bundle. At any rate, anyone can now sign up to these deals. Starting from…

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Virgin Media launches full slate of Quad-Play subscription bundles for broadband, landline, mobile and TV

May29
by on May 29, 2014 at 10:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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We knew it was coming, but UK media and telecoms giant Virgin Media has launched its full slate of so-called ‘Quad-Play’ bundles, pulling together broadband, landline, TV and mobile SIMs into single subscription packages. The first two of these bundles, the ‘Big Kahuna’ and the ‘Big Bang’, had been made available to existing Virgin Media customers already. But now they are joined by the ‘Big Easy’, ‘Big Daddy’, and ‘Big Connection’, though the latter of these doesn’t actually include TV so this isn’t technically a Quad-Play bundle. At any rate, anyone can now sign up to these deals. Starting from…

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The Guardian gets personal with slick, redesigned adaptive mobile apps

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by on May 29, 2014 at 9:05 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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The past 12 months has perhaps been one of the biggest years in the Guardian’s recent history. Besides the Edward Snowden NSA revelation scoops that elevated the UK publication into the global consciousness, a unified .com brand was launched, pulling its international properties under one digital roof, and its website went on to smash the 100 million unique monthly visitors milestone back in March. With that in mind, the Guardian is today rolling out completely redesigned native apps for Android and iOS, which sees the welcome mat laid out for iPad-optimized and Android tablet-optimized versions too (though these already exist…

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