Make Money Today-Yahoo! Connected TV Store Available on Sony and Toshiba TVs!

Since launching in 2009, Yahoo! has created the leading global connected TV platform with over 10 million TVs sold worldwide. Monetization through selling TV Apps was a key request from our network of over 14,000 developers and publishers. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January of 2011, Yahoo! demonstrated a beta version of the Yahoo! Connected TV Store and opened it up to developers.

We are excited to announce that the Yahoo! Connected TV Store is available to consumers today on Sony and Toshiba TVs with the Yahoo! Connected TV platform. Consumers can now download premium Paid TV Apps in addition to the 180+ Free TV Apps available today. We expect the rollout of the Yahoo Connected TV Store to reach millions of TVs in the coming months. Here is quick recap of the program:
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And the Emmy Goes To… The Yahoo! Connected TV team!

Yahoo! Connected TV team recognized for engineering excellence.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, yes The Academy, is honoring the Yahoo! Connected TV team with the 2011 Primetime Emmy Engineering Plaque for engineering excellence. While this award event won’t be televised, we’re darn proud of our team just the same. The competition for engineering awards in the TV ecosystem is fierce as it runs the gamut from video editing to the architecture of connected devices.
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Meet the Yahoo! Connected TV Team – Q4 2011 Events

Yahoo! Connected TV’s Senior Director of Marketing Russ Schafer recently presented at the TV Next event in San Jose. The presentation focused on Yahoo! Connected TVs plans for multi-screen ( TV, PC, Phone, Tablet) content delivery and monetization. You can check out our slides from the session “It’s a TV. It’s a Computer. No It’s a.. Connected TV”.

We thought it was a good time to share our events for 2011. If you are attending one of these events come say hi!

October 2011

• Oct 19 IEEE Interactive TV, Alexandria
• Oct 17-21 Digital Hollywood Fall, Los Angeles
• Oct 26-27th AppDev Conference, Santa Clara 
  • 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Room 4 – Track 1 – Platform Wars
    Emerging platforms such as IPTV, and connected car platforms are emerging rapidly. Explore these emerging platforms and how they impact developers.
  • 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Room 4 – Room- Track 1 – Platform Wars How will the landscape and expectations of what is possible change when TVs become ‘connected’ and what are the approaches different manufacturers have taken?
• Oct 26th 2011 Academy of Arts and Sciences Emmy Engineering Awards Dinner, Hollywood, CA

November 2011

• Nov 1-2nd App World Forum – The Current state of TV Apps (3:40pm), New York
• Nov 8th Streaming Media West – C103: The Digital Living Room  - 1:45pm – 2:30pm Los Angeles, CA
• Nov 16th Social TV Summit, New York
• Nov 17th Future of Television East in NYC

December 2011

• Dec. 7-8th Digital Livingroom Summit, San Francisco

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @ConnectedTV to keep up with the latest. We will live tweet from some events.