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Netflix has started to test a separate section for children’s content on its website with a UI that is optimized to be used by kids themselves. Select Netflix members have been g... More

GameFly Inc. announced it will be launching a new digital client in time for the holiday season, enabling customers to download PC game rentals in addition to its physical game ren... More

Media giants Cablevision Systems Corp. and Viacom Inc. have made peace. The two were fighting over Cablevision Systems move to make Viacom-owned cable networks available to its sub... More

Apple Inc., in connection with last year’s introduction of the iPad, colluded with News Corp.’s HarperCollins Publishers unit and four other publishers to fix prices of electro... More

Disney CEO Bob Iger said that any digital distribution deals it cuts for its content will be short-term because the market is evolving too quickly. Iger, speaking on Disney’s thi... More

With a full day’s worth of sales under its belt, Jay-Z & Kanye West’s new “Watch the Throne” album is projected to sell over 500,000 copies in its first week in the U.S... More

Peter Edge, a longtime talent scout and developer of artists including Alicia Keys and Jamie Foxx, was named chief executive of RCA Music Group on Monday. The group houses labels s... More

“We are making shifts to reduce movie-based and licensed kids’ video games in our portfolio, which underscores our strategy to move away from games that will not generate stron... More

You may remember that back at CES, Toshiba showed up with a clunky 15.6-inch Qosmio laptop with a glasses free 3D display. With a large power pack strapped to its cover, it was far... More

Digital entertainment technology provider Rovi Corp. Tuesday posted a net loss over a profit last year, hurt by a restructuring and asset impairment charges. Nevertheless, earnings... More

Walmart announced today (Aug.10) the launch of Vudu for the iPad. Vudu, a leading subscription-free, video-on-demand movie service and wholly owned subsidiary of Walmart stores, ha... More

The Recording Industry Association of America, the music industry’s biggest lobbying group, announced new leadership on Monday. Cary Sherman, the organization’s president since... More

Netflix, Foursquare, Virgin America and several other sites were affected this evening [Aug. 8] when Amazon’s Web Services went down for less than an hour.... The outage was cont... More

Since last year, more than 200,000 people have been sued for allegedly sharing copyrighted material online, and this number continues to expand at a rapid pace.... Despite the mass... More

As predicted by more and more industry observers, Dish's decline means that the U.S. satellite TV industry lost subscribers for the first time ever in the second quarter. It also d... More

Publisher Take-Two Interactive revealed during [its] quarterly earnings call that Red Dead Redemption has shipped 11 million copies to retailers since launching in May of last year... More

Fans who wanted a copy of the Jay-Z and Kanye West collaboration “Watch the Throne” could buy a download of it early Monday morning. Yet those who have long been buying music o... More

The rumors from last week about Apple being “on the edge” of launching a cloud movie service, which would enable iTunes users to stream movies from Apple’s servers and then r... More

A lightning strike has caused power outages at the major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. The incident has caused downtime for many sites usin... More