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In advance of its Kindle Fire tablet launch, Amazon this week opened a new data center in Oregon. This is AWS's seventh data region and the fourth in the U.S.... More

Market research firm ChangeWave has reported data which shows strong demand for the Amazon Kindle Fire that exceeds pre-launch demand for the iPad as determined by a similar survey... More

The Santa Monica company announced Tuesday that subscribers for its World of Warcraft online game had fallen to 10.3 million, down from 11.4 million at the end of March. “The mag... More

Widely debated, and now, it seems, settled for good: Adobe is reportedly preparing to announce that it is canning its work on mobile versions of Flash, a popular plug-in used for v... More

Microsoft is poised to release to manufacturing Silverlight 5. There’s word from some of my contacts that this might be the last major release of Silverlight, but Microsoft isn�... More

At f8, we introduced an evolution of Facebook Platform and launched a dozen partners that we’ve worked closely with to re-think music discovery with the Open Graph. Our hypothesi... More

AnyClip has announced a content licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. Full movies from the movie studio, including the Harry Potter and Batman franchise, will... More

Xytech, a provider of facility management software for the broadcast and media services industries, announced Nov. 8 that Daniel Lynch has joined the company as General Manager of ... More

A weak economy is putting pressure on the pay TV industry, as it struggles to get new users to sign up for cable, IPTV and satellite services. But the short-term issue around the a... More

Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group is in advanced talks to buy EMI Group’s recorded-music unit from Citigroup Inc., moving to the head of the pack in an auction it had only rec... More

With Black Friday about three weeks away, news about what certain retailers might be offering come Nov. 25 is leaking out, and JC Penney, Walmart, and Costco are just some of the s... More

Top electronics chain Best Buy Co is buying its British partner out of a fast-growing U.S. mobile phone joint venture for $1.3 billion and scrapping plans for a chain of European m... More

When Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch introduced the Simple Touch Reader this past May, he described it as an e-reader easy enough for your grandmother to use. She may not be t... More

This all started when the High Court in London ordered BT to block Newzbin2, a site known for indexing copyrighted content. Now, it’s time for a much bigger fish: ahead of the we... More

3D or not 3D? That’s the question facing a lot of filmmakers as they weigh the extra costs of shooting in 3D or converting 2D footage to 3D against the potential box office upsid... More

[Doug] Morris, one of music’s reigning patriarchs, took over Sony in July, after 15 years at Universal. He is widely seen as the most capable hand to steady Sony’s music divisi... More

YouTube is busy striking and announcing content deals, but it has found time to promote the guy who’s in charge of all of that. Robert Kyncl, who came over from Netflix a year ag... More

Recently, American Express has been pushing its own internal digital commerce initiatives including the company’s digital wallet, Serve. Serve integrates a variety of payment opt... More

The deal, set to be announced on Monday, is small on its surface: Disney Interactive Media and YouTube, a division of Google, will spend a combined $10 million to $15 million on or... More

The dispute between Viacom and Time Warner over streamed content of cable channels including MTV and Comedy Central on iPads is not over. Not by any stretch of the imagination….... More