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Apple Inc. (AAPL) has intensified talks with major music labels to start an advertising supported streaming-radio competitor to Pandora Media Inc. (P) by early next year, accord... More

Pandora shares fell off a cliff yesterday, after Bloomberg published a story about Apple’s plan to introduce a streaming music service early next year. Time to buy Pandora sh... More

Reacting to Nintendo's disappointing fiscal results and Wii U sales outlook, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter noted that the Wii U software guidance is simply "unrealis... More

While this concept of “showrooming” is a huge concern for stores, recent developments indicate it won’t necessarily lead to the demise of the local retailer, as once thought.... More

The number of pay-TV providers in Western Europe offering multiscreen services will almost double over the next four years from approximately 50 in 2012 to 90 by 2016, according to... More

There’s further evidence of Twitter’s mainstream presence in Japan after Dentsu-owned TV audience ratings service Video Research revealed plans to introduce a new rating syst... More

While a growing crop of startups battle it out in the social TV space, there’s one that’s been around since 2006 that’s established a tremendous head start. Twitter, as we kn... More

Online video, when properly managed and delivered, can actually benefit telcos offering IPTV, service providers and vendors said Wednesday at TelcoTV 2012 in Las Vegas...... More

With the launch of its iPad Mini, Apple now has a device for nearly all purposes. But the company still hasn't offered its version of the biggest home device of all -- the TV...... More

The worldwide pay-TV market is growing across all major platforms, including cable, satellite and IPTV, according to US firm ABI Research, which predicts that service revenues will... More

For streaming video, the barriers to entry are relatively low, so the competition, already fierce, will only get fiercer. Ideally, Netflix could raise prices, at least a little, to... More

More than a month after a French court convicted its first three-strikes offender under the anti-P2P regime known as Hadopi, the French government will be continuing the controvers... More

If you have $20,000 to blow, you can now get the most advanced consumer TV on the market. LG has officially launched the very first TV to be sold as an "ultra HD" set...... More

Bowker finds that 148,424 print books were self-published in 2011 — that means that 43 percent of all print books published in the U.S. in 2011 were self-published. 87,201 ebooks... More

Vox Media, the Washington, D.C., online media start-up that owns The Verge and SB Nation, is finally debuting its standalone videogame site called Polygon...... More

The popular Spotify collaborative listening app Soundrop relaunched with a completely revamped service Thursday, offering Spotify users a much tighter social integration that put... More

Buddy TV Guide a TV Guide App on iOS and Android who has taken a back seat as of recently though very popular at one time is now trying to make a comeback, they have recently worke... More

As anticipated, Apple has introduced the iPad Mini, a 7.2mm-thin aluminum-body tablet with a 7.9-inch screen that will go for just $329 for the 16 GB Wi-Fi-only version. It will st... More

TV search and discovery — as well as remote control — app Boxfish can now add the iPhone to its list of compatible devices. The team has also taken a cue from early user behavi... More