ComScore released a new study with Facebook today explaining “how social marketing works.” If that sounds to suspicious minds like the fox explaining how to guard the chickens, that’s because it pretty much is. However, the study does contain a …
Soundrop, a social app for streaming service Spotify’s music platform, has raised $3 million in its first round of funding, the company announced today.
Soundrop was among the first batch of apps that launched with Spotify’s new open-platform, which invites …
It’s no secret that Amazon’s business strategy involves growing its digital media sales, which it has done by undercutting MP3 music download prices on iTunes. But Amazon’s streaming music strategy, kicked off by its Cloud Player release last year, has …
Streaming music service Spotify has massively updated its Android application with support for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), a new navigation bar, an Android widget, and an option for higher sound quality, the company announced Tuesday.
Spotify is now available …
It seems that television service providers are finally coming around to the hard truth that most people avoid the long commercial breaks between programming whenever possible.
Largest U.S. satellite television provider DirecTV said today it may allow its subscribers to …
Global social network Twitter ran its first-ever TV commercial this weekend during a NASCAR race, but if history is any indication, commercials won’t necessarily help the service go mainstream.
Twitter’s 15-second commercial aired during the 2012 Pocono 400 NASCAR race. …
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Video might have “killed the radio star” with the birth of MTV in 1981, but now video is an expanding part of our everyday lives. Online video especially has grown and developed since the birth of YouTube in 2005, making …
Just five days after buying social-messaging and advertising company Meebo for a rumored $100 million, Google is beginning to shut down the company’s various products.
On July 11, Meebo Messenger, Sharing on Meebo, Meebo Me, and all of Meebo’s mobile …
Well, we can certainly tell it’s Friday afternoon, can’t we?
The childhood staple Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood has gotten this loving and charming tribute from YouTube power user and autotune demigod melodysheep — all with the permission and cooperation of the …
Last night’s Vimeo Awards showed that the online video company Vimeo isn’t afraid to embrace the strange, alluring, and funny attributes of the video-sharing site’s best contributors.
As I’ve written about previously, the Vimeo Festival + Awards is taking place …
We’re hearing rumors this morning that broadcast media company CNN is finalizing a deal to purchase online news network Mashable, but the sale price might not be as high as previously speculated.
Rumors of CNN buying Mashable first surfaced in …
After months of rumblings, new details have emerged about Intel’s new plans to launch a smart TV platform — and it actually sounds pretty cool.
Back in March, Intel was rumored to be working on producing its own set-top box …
Music service Last.fm believes user passwords may have been compromised along with yesterday’s LinkedIn leak. The company is encouraging everyone to change their passwords immediately.
“We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords. This follows recent password …
Your parents told you to be in the house by 11 p.m. No worries, though. Just pull out your iPad and bring the party home with Algoriddim’s latest DJ app, Vjay.
Vjay allows users of any experience level to mix …
Facebook’s market value may be plummeting, but the demand for its ads, and social ads in general, remains at fever pitch. Here to help brands and enterprises with their social play-calling is startup Unified, which just raised $14 million in …
GamesBeat previously interviewed Pauline Acaline, co-founder and creative designer at 72pins, to learn about the process, legalities, and business model of using old Nintendo Entertainment Cartridges as art canvases. Now the team is taking their signature retro pixel art on …
The awesome HBO Go service has landed on Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, but like Jon Snow at The Wall, all other Android tablet owners are still out in the cold.
HBO Go’s service gives HBO subscribers access to the premium …
One feature that’s been noticeably absent from Google TV, Google’s connected-TV platform, is something akin to Apple’s AirPlay, which allows iPad and iPhone the ability to stream content directly to Apple TV. But the little-known Taiwanese manufacturer Honeywld is working …
If someone were to layout all the important organizations, factions, companies, and components of the war on online piracy into a comprehensive battle map, it would look like the infographic below.
The “map” is basically visualized as a region of …
Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning’s new social video startup Airtime launched today with a celebrity-studded event, but no matter how many times Jim Carrey praised the service it was clear that it liberally borrowed the basic idea of Chatroulette and …
