Fraud detection companies note a rise in “ad injection," whereby Web users’ browsers are commandeered and ads are stuffed into sites without publishers’ permission.   Similar malware that’s used to infect consumers with bots can also be used to inject unwanted ads in their browsers, slotting in additional ads in pages where no ads would usually be, or layering them on top of legitimate ads.

Quite a lot, savs VideoInk. NBCUniversal's Evan Shapiro tells the Website, “Our approach here is to create what we think are the cable versions of the OTT world. If this was 20 years ago we might be creating a new cable channel.”

  The world will have to live with uncertainty of knowing who is the globe's top DJ. Yahoo pulls the plug on the Simon Cowell-led project, "Ultimate DJ," making that NewFront presentation last spring just a memory.