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Cable companies led by Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) won U.S. permission to encrypt their basic service to fight theft and reduce service calls. The Federal Communications Commission vo... More

Television viewing of both cable and broadcast networks among adults under age 50 fell for the first two weeks of the new fall season, Nielsen data show, a much weaker start than t... More

Wall Street is not thrilled with the new fall television season. On Thursday, two prominent media analysts issued reports expressing concern about the new season...... More

As the Mipcom sales mart wrapped on Thursday, it turned out that it was Harvey Weinstein's keynote speech that best captured the mood of the market, confirming that despite a mixed... More

It has been a strange week for public television executives. Meetings have been postponed. Trips have been canceled. And conversations have turned in urgency to, of all things, Big... More

Hulu's owners and CEO Jason Kilar find themselves at this crossroad after years of long-simmering tensions and occasional battles...... More

As far as anyone seems to know, this is the first 3D-printed acoustic guitar on the planet, and it raises all kinds musical possibilities...... More

OTT revenues are expected to be driven by premium long-form content over the next five years, with advertising revenues forecast to increase to $ 13.4 billion by 2017, compared to... More

Spending for Internet advertising reached $17 billion in the first half of the year, up 14% from the same time in 2011, as marketers seem to grow increasingly comfortable with usin... More

Sales of game discs and hardware plunged last month, down 24 percent from sales in September 2011, according to the monthly NPD games report ... More

Best Buy Co. is planning to match the prices of Internet competitors such as Amazon.com Inc. this holiday season, even as it plays down its concerns over shoppers browsing gad... More

A U.S. appeals court overturned a preliminary injunction on the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Thursday, dealing a blow to Apple Inc in a battle ag... More

Ericsson AB believes it has come up with a network-based approach to fix a bandwidth-sharing flaw with adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming that tends to come into play when more tha... More

In this video interview with Matt Stagg, Senior Manager of Network Strategy at UK 4G mobile operator Everything Everywhere, we hear his thoughts on what the video ecosystem needs ... More

The Atlanta-based soft drinks giant is in discussions about acquiring a shareholding worth about $10m (£6.2m) in Spotify, which is in the process of raising funds expected to valu... More

YouTube just announced a number of updates that will allow video creators to see more in-depth analytics for how users are watching their videos. YouTube’s analytics now, for e... More

Santa Monica, Calif.-based Digiboo, which offers kiosk-based digital movie rentals via USB flash drives and wireless download, has added 200 episodes from 11 TV series to its offer... More

Amazon has confirmed it will not make a profit from sales of its latest Kindle tablet and e-reader devices. "We sell the hardware at our cost, so it is break-even on the hardware,... More

Which ebook trends are global and which are country-specific? Execs from Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google, French retail chain FNAC and India’s Indiaplaza discussed similaritie... More