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“We are making shifts to reduce movie-based and licensed kids’ video games in our portfolio, which underscores our strategy to move away from games that will not generate stron... More

You may remember that back at CES, Toshiba showed up with a clunky 15.6-inch Qosmio laptop with a glasses free 3D display. With a large power pack strapped to its cover, it was far... More

Digital entertainment technology provider Rovi Corp. Tuesday posted a net loss over a profit last year, hurt by a restructuring and asset impairment charges. Nevertheless, earnings... More

Walmart announced today (Aug.10) the launch of Vudu for the iPad. Vudu, a leading subscription-free, video-on-demand movie service and wholly owned subsidiary of Walmart stores, ha... More

The Recording Industry Association of America, the music industry’s biggest lobbying group, announced new leadership on Monday. Cary Sherman, the organization’s president since... More

Netflix, Foursquare, Virgin America and several other sites were affected this evening [Aug. 8] when Amazon’s Web Services went down for less than an hour.... The outage was cont... More

Since last year, more than 200,000 people have been sued for allegedly sharing copyrighted material online, and this number continues to expand at a rapid pace.... Despite the mass... More

As predicted by more and more industry observers, Dish's decline means that the U.S. satellite TV industry lost subscribers for the first time ever in the second quarter. It also d... More

Publisher Take-Two Interactive revealed during [its] quarterly earnings call that Red Dead Redemption has shipped 11 million copies to retailers since launching in May of last year... More

Fans who wanted a copy of the Jay-Z and Kanye West collaboration “Watch the Throne” could buy a download of it early Monday morning. Yet those who have long been buying music o... More

The rumors from last week about Apple being “on the edge” of launching a cloud movie service, which would enable iTunes users to stream movies from Apple’s servers and then r... More

A lightning strike has caused power outages at the major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. The incident has caused downtime for many sites usin... More

How is Spotify doing in the U.S.? One industry executive estimates the popular music service, which launched in the U.S. in mid-July, has amassed at least one million total users i... More

Starz, the flagship pay-television channel of Liberty Media Corp., recently struck a deal with BBC Worldwide Productions to co-produce original television shows. Depending on the n... More

Cable and Internet provider Comcast is launching a new initiative aimed at bridging the digital divide, offering discounted web access and home computers to families that meet inco... More

Apple might be ready to roll out its own video subscription service similar to Amazon and Netflix, Peter Misek at Jefferies reports in a note this morning. Specifically, he says, �... More

Plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped by the government….Website blocking was one of the key provision contained in the Digital Economy... More

Warner Music Group’s chief executive, Edgar Bronfman Jr., who once stated that free streaming services such as Spotify were “clearly not a net positive for the industry,” on ... More

“Teradata has been executing well on our growth strategies, which led to 21 percent revenue growth in the first half of 2011, as well as the highest number of new customer additi... More