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A new social video startup launches today, offering a new way for viewers to experience videos on Netflix, Hulu and YouTube. Scener’s new platform allows anyone to create, share and watch synchronized commentary about streamed movies and TV shows. These “hosts” appear in the picture-in-picture panel that overlays the…

Not even the arrival of fast-selling sequel Mario Kart 8 could rev up sales of the Wii U game console, as one-time video game king Nintendo continued to struggle in its first quarter. Operating losses of 9.47 billion yen ($92.2M) were twice as bad as expected in consensus analyst estimates, while sales dropped more…

The soap opera continues at the streaming media company. Thomas Nielsen, a former exec at Adobe Systems, took the top job in November — about eight months after the previous CEO, Robert Kimball, abruptly left in the middle of a restructuring. He lasted about a year. Nielsen and the board “mutually agreed that the CEO…