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The major reason streaming services are struggling to provide Japanese music is that in most cases, the major record labels, like Sony Music, Victor Entertainment and Universal Mus... More

NBA League Pass, the out-of-market game package, is launching a new mobile-optimized component in time for the start of the 2016/2017 season. Looking to optimize deliver of games ... More

The global denial of service (DDOS) attack on server company Dyn that took out the likes of PayPal, Twitter, Etsy, Reddit and Spotify may have wreaked havoc on revenues for interne... More

YouTube is putting together an over-the-top (OTT) live TV package to launch in early 2017. Hulu will unleash its own live OTT package in early 2017 as well. AT&T — currently in t... More

Artifical intelligence is set to transform the marketing and communications world even more than social media has, according to 55% of CMOs surveyed by Weber Shandwick across five ... More

In announcing the plans Monday, Netflix issued a boilerplate statement about the new debt, saying it intends to use the funds “for general corporate purposes,” which may includ... More

A major cyberattack against an internet directory knocked dozens of popular websites offline today, with outages continuing into the afternoon. Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Shopif... More

How good of an NBA 2K17 player do you think you really are? Well, you're about to find out because on Thursday, Sony announced that it is teaming up with the ESL gaming network and... More

The National Football League is amid a broad implementation of Slack, an enterprise messaging app credited with facilitating collaboration among internal teams and used to build on... More

Technicolor reported a 30% year-on-year increase in Q3 profits as its Connected Home and Entertainment Services divisions continued to drive growth. Announcing its third quarter re... More

At this point, it seems that virtual reality really is the next big thing, and Los Angeles is positioning itself as the new industry’s creative hub. VR joins together Hollywood, ... More

AT&T Inc. may be interested in a deal with media giant Time Warner Inc., but the phone carrier’s ambitions are constrained by its hefty $120 billion debt load and its desire to k... More

A billion here, a billion there. The number of Internet-connected devices continues to climb. While there will be many billions of sensors of all types installed around the world, ... More

The French parliament has ruled against a bill which was passed on Oct. 12 by the finance committee of the French legislature’s lower house to tax online video platforms, includi... More

China has dethroned the U.S. as Apple’s biggest source of app store revenue, according to a new report from app store intelligence outlet App Annie. Chinese consumers spent a rec... More

Video game voice actors declared a strike today, as the midnight deadline for negotiations passed without an announcement of a resolution of the labor dispute. The Screen Actors Gu... More

Many of us grew up in a world in which mass media was uni-directional. We passively watched TV and movies, listened to music, and read newspapers and books without them interacting... More

TiVo released follow-up findings from its 2016 TiVo consumer survey, focusing on the behavior of U.S. millennials and how this coveted demographic interacts with video content, pro... More

Facebook and Snapchat have overtaken the home pages of Yahoo and Google as the front door to the Internet for hundreds of millions of people. Now, the two rivals are pursuing a muc... More

Google is closer to launching its own video streaming service, which would offer big-budget network TV programming without a cable or satellite subscription. According executives ... More