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Cable Companies Show Biggest Loss In Q3 Subscribers

The 13 largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. collectively lost about 150,000 net video subscribers in the third quarter. That was a Q3 all-time record and compared with just 25,000 subscriber losses in Q3 2013, according to Leichtman Research. The data suggest cord cutting continues to take hold as people cancel their pay-TV service and turn to Internet services such as Netflix (NFLX), Amazon (AMZN) Prime, and Google’s (GOOGL) YouTube to watch TV

Mobile game consolidation forecast as King, Glu lead

In the hits-driven mobile video game business, King Digital Entertainment (KING) and Glu Mobile (GLUU) are leading the pack. Since September 2013, only eight games have launched that have spent at least three months among the top 20 grossing U.S. games for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone. Half of those best-selling games have been from King or Glu, Cowen analyst Doug Creutz said in a note Wednesday. King produced “Farm Heroes Saga” and “Bubble Witch 2 Saga,” while Glu came out with “Deer Hunter 2014” and “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.” “We think these successes are representative of the better game development, marketing and support that King and Glu are able to deliver relative to their peers,” Creutz said. October sales data point to King and Glu as clear leaders in the mobile games space, he says. Last month, King held a quarter of the top 20 games on the iPhone and Google’s (GOOGL)…

Google Sings New Tune As YouTube Opens Music Service

Online search leader Google (GOOGL) is jumping into the increasingly crowded music subscription business. Google’s YouTube video subsidiary will begin testing a long-rumored music subscription service next week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The new service, which operates on smartphones and PCs on Google’s Android operating system, is called YouTube Music Key. Users can listen to music without ads on the YouTube site. The