Besides Dish's Ad Hopper, Aereo, the TV streaming service in NYC has caused the biggest disruption in the traditional TV world. Recently, broadcasters failed to do anything about Aereo in court. The company has big goals as they offer broadcast channels on a subscription basis to consumers in a Netflix-type model. Aereo also has social features built within their app that we recently talked about with their CEO. Today, the company is announcing a new pricing model...

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Over a year ago we wrote about Tweeplayer, then in beta, a technology that lets you play back tweets in sync with a TV show. The company, which changed its name to Tomorrowish, has become an important social TV tool for a social web that can spoil content for you in a second. After all, time-shifted playback is one of the biggest challenges facing social viewing today.

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There's a new Kickstarter project focused on innovating TV, and they're only $10,000 short of reaching their goal of $125,000 with 24 days left. Simple.TV, which won a best-of-show award at CES, is on a mission to have you cut your traditional cord in favor of streaming free HD content from broadcasters to your phones, tablets and connected TV sets. We spoke with founder Mark Ely about his venture...

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