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Music labels and film studios are reportedly planning to throw their weight behind a rescue deal for collapsed retailer HMV. Entertainment giants including Universal Music, Warne... More

There’s never been more video content to watch, or more ways of to watch it. That, says Jeremy Toeman, of Dijit Media, a big problem. In making TV infinite, we’ve lost its most... More

Roku has fired into the new year with a deal to make Time Warner Cable’s TV Everywhere content available through its streaming devices – the first time the ‘TWC TV’ offer h... More

Efficiency has been the name of the game in online advertising, as algorithms and automation have often trumped creativity. That’s put publishers at a severe disadvantage, adrift... More

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is at a crossroads. It commands 83 percent of the market for the processor chips that run PCs and laptops. But that market has peaked, and t... More

It was one year ago today that an unprecedented outcry against the Stop Online Piracy Act proved to Washington officialdom that sufficiently irritated Internet users are a potent p... More

While consumers probably know Gracenote best for its audio databases (its technology is used by iTunes, WinAmp, and more), the company is well-positioned for broadcast and online v... More

Deloitte said access to the most sought-after content, rather than convenience or affordability of the technology, will remain key to the success of so-called over-the-top services... More

2012 was a very good year for SoundCloud. The social music and audio-hosting platform saw a massive uptick in user activity, according to data released by music analytics firm Next... More

Mobile commerce, or "mcommerce," has had a transformative (and highly publicized) impact on some businesses, including Amazon, eBay and flash sales sites like Gilt. But for the vas... More

Online film distributor SnagFilms got a big boost in 2012, as it expanded to new platforms and made its free, ad-supported indie movies available to tens of millions of new viewers... More

If HMV was going to fail it was always going to be after a Christmas sales surge, when the tills were as full of cash as they were ever going to be and when the shelves were deplet... More

In an era of giant high-definition televisions and NFL RedZone -- a channel that broadcasts every scoring play of every game -- football zealots are growing weary of shelling out h... More

Closed captioning support for live and on demand multi-platform video is now available from Toronto-based QuickPlay Media. Using its cloud-based OpenVideo platform, QuickPlay repor... More

Along with content marketing I don’t think there’s a more ubiquitous phrase right now in the world of marketing and advertising than anything that starts with the word “mobi... More

Amazon.com Inc. has launched a version of its MP3 store geared specifically towards Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPod touch that allows uses to buy their music from Amazon on their devi... More

After years of hype in the independent film business, digital platforms have finally begun to bear fruit. Last year's Sundance didn't yield the mega-deals that over the last decade... More

YouTube is set to make another big investment in a content partner. This time around it’s Vevo, the music video site. YouTube and its owner Google have agreed to buy a minority s... More

From a revenue standpoint, Wii U had a stronger launch than the original Wii. Analysts, however, feel that Nintendo's been underwhelming with Wii U so far, and that "many Wii U sys... More