AT&T said Wednesday it will offer Hulu's streaming TV service to its customers. AT&T is the nation's No. 2 wireless provider. It also sells TV, Internet and home phone service and is in the process of buying DirecTV, which would make it the country's largest traditional TV provider.

Twitter's plan to make money from Vine and Periscope looks a lot different from the strategy it's pursuing with its core product, says Ad Age. Neither video platform will feature traditional, force-fed advertising, according to a Twitter executive.

Speaking to investors at the Jefferies TMT 2015 conference, John Stratton, Verizon's newly appointed EVP and operations president for its wireless and wireline division, emphasized that the main impetus behind Verizon's purchase of AOL is the company's ad platform that Verizon believes will help it generate revenue "above the network layer." In addition, he said that the company is focused on delivering a mobile-first video experience targeted at millennials.

Vevo's former CEO Rio Caraeff is striking up a similar tune, joining former Sony executive Yair Landau at Vadio, a startup that helps add video to music-streaming services.Vadio also announced Tuesday it raised $7.5 million in funding.

Telecom giant Verizon announced Tuesday it will be buying AOL for $50 per share, or about $4.4 billion.  AOL's stock was up more than 18 percent after the announcement. Verizon's stock was down about 1 percent.

According to Renaissance Capital, an institutional market research firm that tracks the IPO market and offers an IPO ETF, last year marked the most active U.S. IPO market since 2000, with 275 companies going public and raising a stunning $85 billion. But so far this year, the IPO market has slowed dramatically.

As broadcast upfronts begin today, the big four networks are increasingly concerned about how network viewership is being siphoned by digital. They fear another flat upfront season

Psychologist, Stanford professor emeritus, Ted-talker Phillip Zimbardo has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected. In an interview on the BBC World Service's Weekend program, Zimbardo spoke about the results of his study, an in-depth look into the lives of 20,000 young men and their relationships with video games and pornography. 

CBS owns 9% of "Seinfeld" which just got sold again in syndication to Hulu, and Hulu also bought rights to CSI, too. That's some major coin for the network coming from Hulu's owners--the owners of NBC, ABC and Fox.

Apparently canceled by Fox, "The Mindy Project" may resurface on Hulu. Universal Television is rumored to be trying to sell Hulu on another run