Starz new series, Da Vinci’s Demons shows viewers, “the secret history of Leonardo da Vinci’s tantalizing life reveals a portrait of a young man tortured by a gift of superhuman genius.” To bring this new world to life the network has launched a brand new companion app called,  “Da Vinci’s Demons: Citizens of Florence,” a second screen app allowing users to understand the world of Da Vinci beyond the main screen. Here are the details. Read more

Stevie, a Tel Aviv-based startup has a mission to change the way we consume social on TV. The company, which “turns your Facebook and Twitter into a beautiful television experience,” launched at TechCrunch Disrupt is announcing a big partnership today to bring their service to more devices. We spoke with CEO and Founder Yael Givon. Read more

The general assumption is that younger viewers (especially young children) are the ones watching more and more TV on iPads and tablets. Digital natives have grown up in a TV environment that allows for place-shifting by watching TV anywhere you can bring your mobile device. There's even a Tumblr called Babies with iPads dedicated to this phenomenon. Altman Vilandrie & Company has come out with a new survey that is showing that TV viewing on tablets is also rising among older viewers.

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With the Olympics halfway over, NBC has begun to release the success of their digital properties, which includes live streaming of all the games on their iPad apps. The web changed completely between 2008 and 2012, enabling a more social Olympics who's coverage can be found way beyond the TV screen. Here are details on the NBC Olympics digital success.

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Boston-based startup Sidecastr has recently emerged out of stealth mode, the latest second screen app to hit the social TV world. Available now for iPad, the app has a mission "no less than becoming the 'social network for social TV,'" according to Steven Brand, the Harvard-educated founder and CEO. In the face of stiff competition, here's a look at what Sidecastr...

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Apple took the wraps off a new retina display iPad (with 4G LTE) and a 1080p Apple TV box today (sorry no TV set), both of which will be available on March 16th. While the announcements themselves aren't particularly groundbreaking -- solid incremental improvements -- Tim Cook revealed a metric that should be a bit of shocker: "We sold more iPads in the last quarter of last year, than any PC maker sold of their PCs," he said...

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Here's a fascinating data point. Speaking at a London conference this week, BBC's Daniel Danker shared how the network's video platform, iPlayer, gets four times as much traffic from its iPad app than from its connected TV apps -- even though there are twice as many connected TV app installs. He took the opportunity to urge connected TV makers to simplify their offerings, build user interfaces that work for TV and stop pushing firmware updates.

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Bloomberg TV (which has studios in New York, London and Hong Kong) has launched a new iPad app where they will be streaming their full 24-hour broadcast to anyone with an iPad, over WiFi or 3G. Bloomberg's decision to make their TV content available to any iPad user sets an extremely innovative precedent in a TV world dominated my network-MSO relationships. Under the leadership of Oke Okaro, Global Head of Mobile at Bloomberg, the app also offers customizable on-demand content based on location and topic, and in the near future iPad exclusive content. Lost Remote interviewed Okaro to learn more details about how the launch:

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Bloomberg TV (which has studios in New York, London and Hong Kong) has launched a new iPad app where they will be streaming their full 24-hour broadcast to anyone with an iPad, over WiFi or 3G. Bloomberg's decision to make their TV content available to any iPad user sets an extremely innovative precedent in a TV world dominated my network-MSO relationships. Under the leadership of Oke Okaro, Global Head of Mobile at Bloomberg, the app also offers customizable on-demand content based on location and topic, and in the near future iPad exclusive content. Lost Remote interviewed Okaro to learn more details about how the launch:

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Bloomberg TV (which has studios in New York, London and Hong Kong) has launched a new iPad app where they will be streaming their full 24-hour broadcast to anyone with an iPad, over WiFi or 3G. Bloomberg's decision to make their TV content available to any iPad user sets an extremely innovative precedent in a TV world dominated my network-MSO relationships. Under the leadership of Oke Okaro, Global Head of Mobile at Bloomberg, the app also offers customizable on-demand content based on location and topic, and in the near future iPad exclusive content. Lost Remote interviewed Okaro to learn more details about how the launch:

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