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Amazon announced today that its Instant Video streaming service has surpassed both Apple and Hulu in streaming video usage. Amazon cited a report from Qwilt, a company that tracks growth in online video usage. Assuming that the claim is correct, this would make Instant Video the third largest video site overall, behind YouTube and Netflix. The service offers an extensive catalog of content available only to Amazon Prime members at no additional cost to their Prime membership.

In the near future, we may see Instant Video rise even further. With last week’s launch of Amazon Fire TV set-top box, more people now have the chance to rent or purchase video content through Amazon. The set-top box will be the entry point for bringing those people into the fold, and Amazon offers enough content to make sure that it has something to suit everyones liking.

Amazon also continues to heavily invest in original content. Recently it ordered the second round of original shows, which have been able to generate a decent amount of buzz, but not more so than Netflix’s original shows. The company seems to be committing to making it big in this niche, and its taking it on from all fronts. How it continues to progress will certainly be interesting to watch.

Amazon Says Instant Video Has Surpassed Hulu And Apple , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Web, Amazon, hulu, Netflix,

Twitter needs to generate revenue, and the best way it can do that is by showing ads to its hundreds of millions of users. Now its highly unlikely that the micro-blogging network will start displaying top banner ads on the website, it will have to come up with ad products that don’t have a negative effect on user experience but still bring in the money. So far its most used ad products include promoted accounts, tweets and trends, but if a new WSJ report is to be believed, Twitter actually has 15 types of new ad products that it will launch over the next six months.

Citing people familiar with the company’s plans, the report claims that the first batch of these new ad products will be released in a few weeks. The batch will include a product that will entice users to download apps through Twitter. Apparently the company is trying to tap into demand for ads to download apps, and its trying to squeeze advertising dollars out of mobile game developers specifically.

Twitter is now a public company, and analysts hold the view that it needs to post a profit to justify the current market capital, which goes north of $26 billion. The company has never posted a profit, despite the fact that its ad revenue more than doubled in the fourth quarter, reaching $219.6 million.

Twitter Has 15 New Ad Products It Would Like To Target You With , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Web, Twitter,

It’s not every day that you see an internet-based 3D engine pushing a game to virtual reality with one line of code. That’s what’s been demoed this week as HTML5 … Continue reading

Shoptagr allows fashion aficionadas and aficionados to never miss a sale, ever. This new web application allows users to tag their favorite clothes on ecommerce sites and select a preferred price, when the item is available at a matching discount, then they receive an alert via email and/or sms.

According to co-founders Jonathan  Friedman and Ronen Yuval-Hoch “Retailers use special pricing software that results in prices changing more often than consumers can keep track of, leading to many  missed  shopping opportunities.  Online sales shopping can be really frustrating. Shoptagr should be the answer to those problems.”

Fashion ecommerce is booming and according to this report from Hamburg-based secondary market research company yStats.com, clothing is the number one product purchased in B2C e-commerce. That is probably why Shoptagr launched today with fashion and clothing partner sites such as Asos, Bloomingdales, Shopbop, Zalando, Nordstrom, Net-A- Porter and many others.

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Shoptagr: Tag Now and Shop Later for Less original content from Ubergizmo.

We have all heard this phrase being thrown around a lot, “binge watching.” Basically when someone starts watching a new TV show that has been out for a while and starts to like it, they often find themselves watching more than one episode in a single sitting. This act is referred to as binge watching, and ardent fans are known to finish entire seasons in one night. Netflix, which takes it time in making new episodes available, often has entire previous seasons of popular TV shows. Its been one of the best facilitators of binge watching for quite a while and now Hulu wants to cash in on the frenzy as well.

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Hulu Looks To Cash In On The Binge Watching Frenzy original content from Ubergizmo.