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At a press conference in New York Thursday, Nintendo revealed that the new Wii U will make use of an application called Nintendo TVii, which will let users control, record and inte... More

Zeebox, the second screen TV app which has become quite popular in the U.K. since its launch last year, will launch in the U.S. this month, says CTO Anthony Rose in this video inte... More

San Francisco (USA)-based social TV service Yap.TV has celebrated reaching a landmark 1 billion views (from an estimated 600,000 regular users), continuing their efforts to grow th... More

No longer content to just help you confirm that, yes, the song you're hearing is the new Justin Bieber single, Shazam is branching out. The music identification and discovery app i... More

How do you stand out in the increasingly crowded live video streaming market? In the case ofLivestream, it’s by killing the ads. Today the company announced that it’s offering... More

20th Century Fox launched an initiative designed to spur digital sales, offering its sci-fi thriller "Prometheus" for sale through several major online retailers three weeks ah... More

Google said Tuesday it will offer over 600 titles from Twentieth Century Fox on Google Play and YouTube in conjunction with the studio's major new Digital HD initiative, rolling ou... More

People seem to be split between two opinions: the majors are doing OK; and the majors are doomed. If people come from the world of independent music they tend to be biased against ... More

Nearly a decade after introducing Americans to the original iTunes Music Store, Apple continues to dominate the scene for paid digital-music downloads and for all music purchases i... More

Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he foun... More

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