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Ooyala Enables Real-Time Facebook Video Analytics [with infographic]

Online video technologies firm Ooyala launched Custom Analytics with Business Dimension Reporting, a new product that enables video publishers to access real-time information about the numbers, demographics, geographic location and other data about the audience viewing their content.

AMD Names Papermaster as CTO [with AMD infographic]

AMD announced today that Mark Papermaster has joined the company as senior vice president and chief technology officer, in which role he leads the newly formed Technology and Engineering Group. He will report to president and chief executive officer Rory Read.

Which Videos Are Most Popular on Mobiles? Hint: It's Not Sports...

A third of consumers use their mobile phones while they’re at home, not just when they’re out and about. And one in five watches video on their phone at least once every day, according to a Yahoo! and Ipsos study.

Samsung Becomes Smartphone Market Leader [with chart]

Despite a slowdown in the primary mature markets, International Data Corp. reports that the worldwide smartphone market grew 42.6 percent in the third quarter of 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010, with Samsung now out in front as market leader.

Usenet Server NSE Shuts Down [with chart of competition]

Usenet still exists. It's underneath most people's radar, but that doesn't stop it from getting sued. In fact, News Service Europe, one of the world’s largest wholesale Usenet providers, has ceased operation last week following a court ruling that it knowingly facilitated copyright infringement.

Social Gaming Numbers Grow by 71 Percent [with chart]

Updating research from 18 months ago, PopCap Games found that 118.5 million people now play social games at least once a week, 71 percent more than the previous report. Out of everyone online in the U.S. and the U.K., 41 percent of them have played a social game during the previous three months.

Korea Slaps Curfew on Gamers

Any South Korean under 16 is now prohibited from playing online games between midnight and 6 a.m. The controversial Youth Protection Revision bill makes South Korea, the country with the fifth-highest penetration of broadband in the world, the first country to implement such a law.

BlueStacks Depicts Prototypical 'Mr. Android'

BlueStacks is joining in the year-end retrospectives by defining the average Android user based on a light-hearted analysis of Nielsen data and poll results. The company obviously has a vested interest, since it enables Android applications to run on consumer and enterprise Windows machines, but it still turned up some useful information.

Report: Fewer Venture Exits Netted More Capital in 2011 [with charts]

Venture-backed companies in the U.S. netted more capital despite fewer exits during 2011, according to new figures from Dow Jones VentureSource. The year marked a 14 percent drop in deal activity but a 26 percent increase in capital raised, compared with 2010 figures.

Research: How QR Codes Could Improve [with charts]

New research from Chadwick Martin Bailey found that half of appropriately capable smartphone owners had scanned a QR code, and a fifth of those had gone on to make a purchase. It also pinpointed ways to improve those numbers.