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Google Play is on a growth spurt, but Apple is still tops in app sales. Over the past four months, Google's app store saw its daily sales jump by 43 percent across the 20 countries... More

Sometimes, it seems like sports are impervious to the Internet. Long before anyone had heard of social media, sports — both in the stadium and on TV — has been a social experie... More

After declining to comment when word on some of its pilot orders got out, Amazon Studios, the original film and series production arm of Amazon.com, today announced its first origi... More

Mobile games have gotten rid of a lot of the extra things that have grown up around games - the lengthy cinematic intro, long tutorial modes, big cut scenes. Mobile games have to c... More

Interactive TV vendor OpenTV, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Kudelski Group, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit Wednesday against Netflix, alleging that Netflix infringes seven... More

Why personal computers still need the keyboard and mouse, despite Microsoft's best efforts to kill them off...... More

The TV industry could be in for a rude awakening given the progress being made on programming for digital platforms--if the panelists at the Hollywood Radio & Television Societ... More

Internet ad spend grew 18 percent year-over-year to nearly $9.3 billion during the third quarter, per the Interactive Advertising Bureau's U.S.-based numbers announced today. The s... More

When it launches in the second quarter of next year, Redbox Instant by Verizon promises to be the first real contender to Netflix’s lucrative hybrid streaming-disc-rental option ... More

After a one-month delay, Nintendo on Thursday expects to launch a service for its new Wii U game console in North America designed to let users find programming in pay TV listings ... More

The efforts to sell Cisco’s Linksys business and Google’s attempts to sell Motorola’s set top business both indicate changes in the market for consumer boxes is changing. Soo... More

Instagram caused a major hullabaloo yesterday with its new terms-of-service announcement. But the bigger story has less to do with users and more to do with Instagram trying to do ... More

Good news for Netflix: Legislation the company has backed, designed to let people share their video rental history on the Web, passed the U.S. House yesterday. The bad news: Netfli... More

As the film industry debates exactly how to incorporate digital downloads into its business strategy, 20th Century Fox is taking the lead...... More

Opera Software has deepened its links to the living room after it announced a partnership with Boxee. The Opera Devices SDK will now power Boxee’s new streaming media player, br... More

Smartphones and tablets are amazing tools, but their capabilities are just starting to be fully developed. Starting in 2013, smartphones and tablets will take on important new role... More

Digital media services company Avail-TVN has launched a new subscription VOD service dubbed ViewNow, with Verizon FiOS becoming the first pay-TV operator to host the offering...... More

How do you connect people who have no Internet? How do you build a wireless network outside of the official wireless ISPs? These are questions the Open Technology Institute wants t... More

Facebook is set to unveil a new video-ad product in the first half of next year in its largest attempt to date to attract big swaths of ad dollars from TV advertisers, according to... More