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U.S. food companies are reaching children by embedding their products in simple and enticing games for touch-screen phones and tablets. The new medium is far cheaper than Saturday ... More

A much diminished electronics sector in Japan is buckling further still. How much more retrenchment and pain is needed to succor its once triumphant tech industry is the question n... More

The world's leading provider of dubbing, subtitling, and other media localization services continues to grow. SDI Media announced today the opening of a second location in German... More

Can smartphone apps become hit movies and television shows? Hollywood is watching and wondering. It would help solve a continual problem for studios, which require more fresh sour... More

Comments posted on Twitter and other social-media websites about television shows have exploded in the past year, to 75.5 million in July from 8.8 million a year earlier, far faste... More

This week, the VHX website got a whole new look — instead of bringing users directly to its social video community, the home page now lays out VHX’s digital distribution ser... More

PepsiCo believes so much in the importance of early-stage companies that, on average, 10% of the digital-media budget across its beverage brands in the U.S. is invested with startu... More

Following the unexpected ouster Friday of Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairman Tom Rothman, Hollywood's eyes have turned to a son of Greek immigrants known for his expertise in int... More

The Xbox, the Zune, Windows Phone: in ten years, these products will be the model for Microsoft, as it evolves away from a software company into a hardware-and-services provider. A... More

On the anniversary of the failed introduction of Qwikster, Netflix has garnered more U.S. subscribers than ever. One in four U.S. households now subscribe to Netflix, based on data... More

At last month's IFA 2012 electronics show in Berlin, one of the biggest head-turning products was from China-based TCL Multimedia. The company introduced the Ice Screen, a 26-inch ... More

An HBO exec made clear to the tech community last week that its HBO GO streaming service has to remain bundled with customers’ cable subscriptions, and can’t operate as a stand... More

Apple, Amazon, Motorola and Nokia may have had the tech community buzzing with new product reveals this month, but Hollywood also has a reason to pay attention. The new screens -- ... More

A top Netflix executive issued a warning to Hollywood Thursday that the variability of windows around the globe for blockbuster movies like "Hunger Games" is an open invitation to ... More

If you were wondering whether or not Dish Network is considering backing away from its Auto Hop feature in the wake of programmer outrage and litigation, wonder no more: no. An ov... More

The proper comparison for TVii isn't any of the streaming portals on the PS3 or Xbox 360-- it's Google TV with products like the Vizio Co-Star and Sony NSZ-GS7. And while tha... More

In the streaming silo world, music that isn’t on the service doesn’t exist. Guess what? There’s a lot of music that doesn’t exist. If you can’t find that music and add ... More

There’s no love lost between Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and Canada’s big Internet providers: “It’s almost a human rights violation what they’re charging f... More

Akamai, recently ranked as the world’s largest content delivery network operator, has acquired a Californian provider of content acceleration software called FastSoft for an u... More