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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published details of an exhaustive Apple invention covering the resale and loan of owned digital content like e-books, music and mo... More

Privacy is dead, the captains of Silicon Valley will tell you. They should know -- they're trying to kill it. In the 14 years since Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, tol... More

Premium media service provider QuickPlay Media has launched a new solution designed to introduce multiscreen distribution and managed services more quickly, easily and cost-effecti... More

This is a familiar dilemma for pay TV providers: Lots of subscribers who threaten to cancel the service are full of it. The phenomenon shows up clearly in the results of Morgan Sta... More

Cablevision released a redacted version of its lawsuit against Viacom today and it lays out a scenario that would sound ridiculous in a world of unlimited bandwidth. Here’s Cable... More

Websites that retransmit live TV over the internet without permission from broadcasters are in breach of copyright, Europe's highest court has ruled in a judgment with wide ranging... More

Apple’s efforts to create an Internet radio service to compete with Pandora has been delayed by licensing negotiations with music companies, according to a number of people brief... More

The proliferation of digital channels, along with the ubiquity of mobile devices and social media, has created a new world for consumers interacting with businesses–retail busine... More

Consumers are multitasking and using their phones or tablets while watching TV, and at first blush this sort of companion activity may seem like a boon to TV. But multitasking carr... More

CD Baby, the world's largest online distributor of unsigned music, has just announced that it will be the first major indie music aggregator to partner with Shazam, the world's lea... More

Social TV app zeebox Australia has struck a deal with Foxtel, bringing the pay-TV provider's programs to its platform. zeebox partnered with free-to-air Network Ten for its Austral... More

Anyone old enough to have watched the 1974 Academy Awards on TV probably remembers that a mustached man ran naked across the stage during the live broadcast. But only a movie buff ... More

Innovation rarely happens on a predictable timetable. Exhibit A - interactive TV. For more than a decade it's been a revolution that's just around the corner. Remember when people ... More

New York’s Innovid announced Wednesday that it has raised $11 million in a Series C round with backing from new investor Vintage Investment Partners and existing investors Sequoi... More

It’s finally happening. The Internet is taking over TV. It’s just happening differently than many of us imagined. There are two major transformations under way: The Rise of the... More

The upcoming enhanced Xbox 360 version of the formerly Wii U exclusive port of the PS3 and Xbox 360 version of Ninja Gaiden 3, Razor's Edge, will have support for second-screen gam... More

Action Audio Apps Inc. and Quantum5X Systems Inc. (Q5X®) have teamed to introduce the first Smartphone enabled App that allows fans in a venue to listen to the player’s interact... More

Supporters of copyright reform are hoping that 2013 is the year they get some real momentum going. In the wake of Monday's news that the White House and FCC now support consumers'... More

Ever since Thrillist - the young guy's lifestyle email company - bought the men's apparel site JackThreads almost three years ago, Thrillist Media Group CEO Ben Lerer has promoted ... More