Much of what people were Tweeting was what they were hearing on TV, thus passing the news instantly to people who may not have been in front of a TV at the time.
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These fast-growing, adroit and well-managed companies help set the benchmarks for their respective industries. (Full methodology can be found here.) Just five Canadian companies make this elite group of 130: Brookfield Asset Management, Manulife, metals producer Teck Cominco (nyse: TCK - news - people ), Calgary-based TV and internet services provider Shaw Communications (nyse: SJR - news - people ) and Suncor Energy.
From short clips off Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) YouTube to movies and TV episodes downloaded from Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iTunes store or Amazon's Unbox store to home movies from friends captured on a digital camcorder, and maybe even a bit of illegally pirated footage, consumers are getting their video from an astonishing array of sources.
Meanwhile, other interactive TV firms like TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ), Liberate Technologies (nasdaq: LBRTE - news - people ) and OpenTV (nasdaq: OPTV - news - people ), have demonstrated how brutal the interactive TV business is: Not one is profitable.
The other day a TV news crew was on the street asking people what should be done.
Comcast 's ( CMCSA - news - people ) TV Pulse surveys list Hawaii Five-0 as the new series viewers are most enthusiastic about heading into the fall, which is good news for series star Alex O'Loughlin, who has thus far starred in a series of CBS clunkers (Three Rivers, Moonlight).
Meanwhile, Malone's Liberty Media (nyse: L - news - people) appears to be playing hardball as it tries to win German regulatory approval for its bid to buy Deutsche Telekom 's (nyse: DT - news - people) cable TV assets.
's (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people ) ReplayTV store TV programming.
Fox's Prison Break hasn't made much impact on the News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people )-owned TV network yet--it was the 60th most popular show on television last week.
Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) Chairman Sanford Weill is probably echoing the punch line on those old TV commercials: "I should have used Federal Express (nyse: FDX - news - people )!"
News and TV comedies are the top choices for what people watch online, cited by 50 percent and 40 percent of online watchers respectively.
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Dish's higher exposure to the Southeastern states than Direct TV (nyse: DTV - news - people ) leaves it more affected by the housing downturn, Eagan said.
Dish Network ( DISH - news - people ), the satellite TV provider, pleased investors with higher subscribed numbers, though its quarterly profit fell thanks to heavy discounting.
Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) is the leading TV manufacturer and one of the top five makers of VCRs, but has traditionally relied on others for the software that fills its boxes.
People, which covers less reality TV and more noncelebrity news than its peers, remains the market leader.
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That hit and other shrewd moves have let the Disney Channel, a longtime also-ran in kid TV behind Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people )'s Nickelodeon, mount a serious challenge.
For consumers looking for a cheap and simple way to bring videos from the family PC over to the TV set, SanDisk (nasdaq: SNDK - news - people ) provides an option that eschews wireless networks altogether.
Twitter also may increasingly be treading on the TV networks' turf by vying to be a meeting point for people seeking news and entertainment.
Most French people (74%) still get their news mainly from TV, while the Internet ranks second as a news source for 40% of them .
The bad news for Murdoch's fair-haired British rival, Richard Branson, is that many of those customers may have come from his pay-TV company, Virgin Media (nasdaq: VMED - news - people ).
Or should I say "the Rose Bowl, presented by Citi, " as the shills on The Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people ) sports networks--which holds the TV contract--are required to call it.
UltimateTV combined programming from Hughes Electronics ' (nyse: GMH - news - people ) DirecTV unit, digital video recording, live TV controls, interactive television and Internet access.
The player will support several digital video formats, including MPEG 2, which is the current standard for digital video used on DVD discs and in hard-drive TV recorders like ReplayTV and TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ).
Brill, whose past ventures include the founding of Court TV, now a Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) unit, and Brills Content, has predicted the company will be profitable by 2008, and he projects 3.5 million users by 2011.
This deal has a long history as News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) had been negotiating with Hughes (nyse: GMH - news - people ), owner of DirectTV , the top satellite TV provider, for a year before EchoStar came in to grab the prize--if it is a prize.
Retired people, 60 years old and older, still watch TV and the nightly news.
Bach unveiled a new agreement with Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people ) to sell downloads of ABC and Disney movies and TV shows over the Xbox.
She said the study raises questions about the emotional cost, particularly for young people, of heavy reliance on a torrent of news snippets delivered via TV and online feeds such as Twitter.
Battle lines were drawn, as many who felt betrayed and manipulated decried the apparent emergence of yet another liar in this epoch of Enron and the L. Dennis Kozlowski -era Tyco International (nyse: TYC - news - people )--not to mention Winfrey's fellow TV icon Martha Stewart.
Last night, news that the President was going to make a surprise announcement certainly drove people to TV.
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