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Netflix has not released a Facebook app in the U.S. because of a privacy law called the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) that prevents video renters from publishing customer's rental records.

The Knicks travel to Toronto to face the Raptors.

The Magic host the Bulls in Orlando.

Netflix is in talks with major cable companies over potentially adding the popular online streaming service to cable, Reuters reported.

Arsenal host AC Milan at Emirates Stadium in the second leg of the Championons League Round of 16 on Tuesday.

Despite facing difficulties with the media conglomerates that broadcast a large majority of television content, Apple may be pushing ahead with its plans to release a streaming television service by Christmas. Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of internet software and services, has been leading talks with content providers for months reports the NY Post. The paper describes Apple's negotiating stance as this: We decide the price, we decide what content.

Finally, the moment has arrived. The 84th annual Academy Awards are being telecast live from the Hollywood & Highland Center (formerly known as the Kodak Theater) in Los Angeles.

The NBA All-Star Game 2012 is today. Here's how to watch in online via live stream.

Online and mail-order video company Netflix has no plans to bring its streaming service to Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet.

Shares of Los Gatos, Calif.-based Netflix were down more than 4 percent Wednesday following a day earlier announcement that Comcast was jumping into the online streaming foray.

The nation's biggest cable company, Comcast, is set to unveil its new on-demand video streaming service, Xfinity Streampix, this week, which will be a cheaper alternative to competitor Netflix at $5 per month.

According to the latest study released by comScore, Inc., a market research firm, people are beginning to watch longer videos online. The duration of an average video has jumped from 5.8 minutes in December 2011 to 6.1 minutes in January 2012. Despite the growth in video duration, viewers actually dropped during that period. In January, 2012, 181 million U.S. Internet users watched about 40 billion videos compared to the 182 million users who watched 43.5 billion videos in December.

Whitney Houston, the great pop music icon, died at the age of 48. Her funeral will be an invitation-only event. Several stars are expected to pay tribute to Houston at the funeral including Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Kevin Costner, Bobby Brown and more. Houston's funeral will begin at 12 p.m. (EST) at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., which is where the late singer got her start singing as a child.

When is the 2012 Oscars? Here is all the information you need for the 84th Academy Awards, including date, start time, live streaming information, downloadable apps and a full nominations list.

The ongoing kerfuffle between classic TV services and the web's intermediaries has a new web-streaming combatant, Aereo, which announced on Wednesday a $20.5 million infusion of funding from media veteran Barry Diller.

There's been a lot of news coming from streaming video services recently. Earlier this week, Redbox, the movie rental service, announced a new joint venture with Verizon through which the companies will offer a streaming video service. Not to be outdone, Amazon has announced a deal with Viacom, Inc. that will allow Amazon Prime members to stream TV shows from Viacom-owned television stations such as Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT, MTV and others.

Spirits are still high among the members of Occupy Pittsburgh, one of the few remaining factions of the Occupy Wall Street movement with a functioning campsite, despite, or perhaps because of the fact that they are facing a court ordered eviction at 12 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 7. Occupy Pittsburgh is currently live-streaming from their campsite and have planned a press conference for noon, the same time as their ordered eviction.

The challenge for the Los Gatos, Calif.-based entertainment provider is to stand out as others such as Hulu and Amazon with its Prime service and Redbox try to gain an edge in the streaming business.

The deal will allow Redbox to pose a more credible challenge to rival Netflix, while it could permit Verizon to control more of the content available through its platforms.

Redbox, the movie rental service, has announced a new joint venture with Verizon through which the companies will offer a streaming video service. The new streaming video service will launch in the second half of 2012. Customers must subscribe to the service in order to stream video, but details about the price scale have not been released.

The Super Bowl is less than 24 hours away. If you can't watch the game on television, then you can watch it on either of two Web sites linked here.