Online retail giant Amazon reported mixed results for its second quarter 2012 earnings today.
The company hit its own revenue goal for Q2, increasing 29 percent to $12.83 billion, compared with $9.91 billion in second quarter 2011. Wall Street, however, …
Update: Twitter returned to fully-operational status at about 9:30am Pacific time, after about 45 minutes offline.
Twitter is down right now — hard down. The site is unresponsive, and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe says it’s down for you as well as Yours Truly. …
If there are two things the Internet loves, and neither of those two things are allowed to be cats, they’re Bob Ross and autotuned remix vids. And PBS just served up the goods on both counts.
Bob Ross, longtime PBS …
Online publishing service FastPencil is announcing a new agreement with Barnes & Noble that will allow self-publishing authors access to premium placement in Barnes & Noble retail stores, online store, and Nook store.
Which means that some lucky self-publishers will …
Twitter is schmoozing with Hollywood producers and network executives in an effort to get several original video series to air exclusively on its information network, said sources who spilled the beans to Adweek. Twitter declined to comment.
Specifically, an MTV-style …
In addition to being the biggest streaming video site in the world, YouTube is also the largest host of videos licensed under creative commons, the site revealed today in a blog post.
The Creative Commons licensing allows others to use …
Premium TV channel HBO said today it will not be forming a partnership with video rental service Netflix.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings insinuated that his company might form an agreement with HBO — either through a future content licensing agreement …
AOL showed signs of life in its Q2 2012 earnings report today, beating Wall Streets expectations and sending a clear signal that the company is doing well under CEO Tim Armstrong.
AOL reported revenue of $531 million for the quarter, …
Apple sold 1.3 million Apple TV units in the third quarter, which is up 170 percent year over year, CEO Tim Cook said today on the company’s quarterly earnings call.
Cook has repeatedly referred to the Apple TV device as …
Netflix brought in just over a million total new subscribers for the second quarter of 2012, the company reported in its Q2 2012 earnings release today.
The numbers narrowly meet the guidance numbers the company predicted in the previous quarter. …
Comcast announced its plans to offer a new, ultra high-speed broadband Internet tier today, confirming rumors first reported last week.
The new tier will be called Xfinity Platinum Internet and will offer download speeds of up to 305 Mbps and …
Startup StackSocial has raised $800,000 to help take its tech deals platform public, the company announced today.
StackSocial basically provides a white-label daily deals-like store for news publications to place within their website. The startup drums up a number …
Would you be less likely to leave an embarrassingly awful comment on a YouTube video if you had to use your real name rather than an alias?
Well, maybe you’re not the type to leave an awful comment anyway, but …
After nearly six months without a permanent chief marketing officer, movie rental service Netflix has appointed Kelly Bennett to the position, the company announced today.
Netflix’s previous CMO, Leslie Kilgore, departed back in January after the company experienced quite a …
Who knew file-sharing badboy Kim Dotcom had a future in pop music? The iconic Kiwi transplant released a music video this past week, and with his German accent it’s totally Arnold Schwarzenegger doing little-kids rap.
But the new poster boy …
Retailers typically measure online ads with online results: cost per click, cost per action, cost per sale. But Helsinki-based shopping analytics firm RapidBlue recently tested the effects of online ads on offline sales. And, surprisingly, it found a strong correlation: …
Zite is boosting the number of publishing partner sections available in its digital magazine mobile app after doubling the number of content impressions since first launching the program, the company told VentureBeat.
For those not familiar with it, Zite lets …
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Remember the viral video about the old man in a nursing home who almost literally comes alive when hearing music? The video went viral in April this year, with more than six million views in four days.
That short clip …
Streaming video service Hulu has revamped the interface of its video player with less clutter and a 10-second rewind button for rewatching your favorite moments, the company announced in a blog post.
Hulu competes with Netflix and Amazon to attract …
If you thought it was silly for HTC to invest $300 million in Beats Electronics last year, prepare to feel vindicated: HTC announced today that Beats has bought back 25 percent of its shares for $150 million.
The companies described …
