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Advertising Week is turning into a coming-out party for Amazon's ad business, an ecosystem of devices, owned websites and an ad network that can target 180 million users based on w... More

After what feels like a mighty long time since it was first announced, Sony's cross-platform PlayStation Mobile store is now up and running with an initial line-up of games (plu... More

Sports rights deals are out of control and threaten the future of the pay-television industry, a lobbyist for small and mid-size cable operators said Tuesday in reaction to Major L... More

Multiple sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have confirmed the new service will launch at the same time as Windows 8. We're told that subscriptions, like the current Zune Musi... More

Digital music streaming company Rdio is testing a new program that will pay artists to turn fans of their music into fans of Rdio, as well...... More

Details of the scheme are still being thrashed out but it is expected to provide a similar service to the likes of Spotify, which allows users to stream music online...... More

SanDisk announced this morning that its 4-gigabyte SDHC (Secure Digital, High Capacity) card will be available in October for about $216...... More

Eager to put to rest a bruising battle with Google and other tech companies over ill-fated anti-piracy bills this year, Dodd stressed common ground between California's two signatu... More

According to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media (publisher of IP&TV News), revenue generated from the sale of content delivery network (CDN) services will g... More

After examining 92 TrueView campaigns, Google reported Tuesday that within two weeks of a campaign’s debut, every dollar invested in YouTube returned (on average) $1.70 in sales.... More

While online video advertising has been steadily growing, and this year should account for about $3.2 billion according to eMarketer, it's still tiny compared to TV. A key constrai... More

In what may be a telling sign of things to come, the football announcer Jim Nantz took a moment during Sunday’s game between Denver and Oakland to urge viewers who had recorded C... More

Instead of "owning" an Internet capable copy of my movie or TV series, all you really get is a license which includes, "streaming from the selling UltraViolet Retailer, at no extra... More

In a report released yesterday, the Pew Internet & American Life Project puts ownership of tablet computing devices at 25 percent among American adults. This breaks down almo... More

While the music industry debates whether Spotify deals fairly with artists, some artists are experimenting with Spotify not just as a giant library of music, but as an app platform... More

New York startup MoviePass today is launching an “all you can watch” subscription service that melds smartphone check-ins with an old-fashioned debit card. Think of it as an ... More

The world's largest software company is making a "big, multi-million dollar investment" to create a "decent-sized media operation," said Bob Visse, general manager, MSN Product Man... More

Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett sees a reckoning coming, as increases in the cost of programming are also outpacing cable or satellite providers’ ability to support them... More

As the American attention span while consuming media gets more and more distracted, it’s interesting to check in on how various folk are finding ways to capitalize on the two-scr... More