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YouTube iOS App Updated to Access Live Streams

YouTube has updated its iOS app to bring access to live streams and also allow users to queue up videos to play on TV, which has long been a feature on its Android app counterpart. The sidebar also adds quick access to new videos from your subscriptions, plus the app gains some stability and performance...

Top Rovio Exec Departs; Rovio YouTube Channel Surpasses 1B Views

According to AllThingsD, one of Rovio's top executives, Ville Heijari, has left the company. Heijari was at Rovio for the past three years in charge of brand marketing but left the company last week to start his new position as the European lead for San Francisco company PlayHaven. Just as this news was released Rovio...

DIAL, the Airplay Rival

Since the introduction of AirPlay industry players have tried to take on this amazing feature and now seems like Apple has got company: namely, Netflix and YouTube have partnered up to launch DIAL, a protocol which sounds interesting to other players like Samsung, Sony, Hulu and BBC, GigaOm reports. (more…)

YouTube iOS App Updated with iPhone 5 and iPad Support, AirPlay

Today appears to be 'update day' in the App Store. YouTube has just announced an update for their iOS app. The changes include support for the iPhone 5, better optimized viewing on the iPad, AirPlay support and more. Just in time for the holidays, now you can download or update the YouTube app with a...

Google Ready To Battle Apple’s AirPlay With An Open Source Alternative

GigaOM has published a report today, claiming that Google is working on an open source alternative to Apple’s AirPlay and is planning to provide this technology to a number of software vendors to allow data exchange between second screens and TV-connected devices, a hint of which has recently been seen in updated YouTube app for Android...