The summer season is usually when the lesser-known cable channels debut their own original programing, and this year Hulu is jumping into that game with three original shows and seven exclusives.
Perhaps the most recognizable of the bunch is a …
Google Chrome isn’t just for über-geeks anymore. Google’s minimalist web browser is now the most popular web browser in the world, according to the latest figures from StatCounter.
For the week of May 14th to May 20th, Chrome edged out …
Augmented reality, which bridges the divide between virtual and physical worlds, has crossed into a new frontier: print media.
Penguin Books recently unveiled a surprising partnership with Zappar App, an augmented reality entertainment channel, to bring four novels from the …
While most of the tech industry is watching Facebook’s historic IPO day unfold, data startup Visual.ly is taking advantage of the situation by showing off the capabilities of its infographics service.
Today Visual.ly launched a new interactive infographic that uses …
Facebook is looking mighty fine today — especially if you’re Instagram, the photo-sharing company that sold its hit mobile application to the social network one month ago for a cool $1 billion in cash and stock.
But wait. Did we …
Amazon is pitching companies on the idea of advertising on the welcome screen of its Kindle Fire tablet — except that it will cost a minimum of $600,000 to do so, according an AdAge report.
Even though Amazon has frustratingly …
Cable TV and Internet service provider Comcast is revising its policy on data caps, the company announced in a very thorough blog post today.
Previously, Comcast limited its residential Internet service subscribers to a 250GB data cap per month, meaning …
Streaming music service Spotify is currently seeking a new mega-round of funding that could more than triple the startup’s current valuation, according to a New York Times report.
Spotify was previously estimated to hold a $1 billion valuation after closing …
Turns out GM might have been on to something. New research from marketing agency Greenlight shows 44 percent of Facebook’s users say that they will “never” click on sponsored posts or display ads on Facebook.
UPDATE: Facebook sets $38 share …
Streaming video service Netflix is rolling out a spanking-new design for its website’s video player today, which may make people think twice about favoring their set-top box over the web browser.
As you can see in the screenshots below, the …
The Pirate Bay is currently experiencing a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which has caused the site to remain inaccessible for the last 24 hours, reports TorrentFreak.
Members of The Pirate Bay confirmed the news with an update on their …
What if your ads watched you while you were watching them? Microsoft is set to debut its new motion-sensitive advertising project NUads next month, which the company says will revamp the TV ad industry by doing just that.
The company’s …
The problem with most magazines is that they’re just too quiet. Flipboard, the gorgeous iPad and iPhone reading app, is teaming up with SoundCloud to add audio content to its mix of news, photos, and social media.
The partnership kicks …
Cull TV, a site that features curated playlists of music videos from indie artists, has been acquired by social video network Twitvid, the companies announced today.
Cull TV is sort of what the internet version of Mtv would probably look …
General Motors plans to stop running ads on Facebook after the company assessed its social ads were not effective, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
While GM did not outright confirm the news, GM marketing chief Joel Ewanick told …
If there’s a significant week-long event occurring in New York City, you can bet that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will make a showing at some point. So it was no surprise when I got a call last night about a mysterious …
Image hosting service Imgur is now serving up more than 1 billion images per day and has doubled its monthly page views to 2 billion in less than six months, the company announced today.
Imgur branded itself as the “simple …
Adobe announced a handful of new features for producing, publishing, and promoting tablet publications created with its Digital Publishing Suite on Tuesday, including the ability to publish to the iPhone, tightly controlled sharing options, and a little something that could …
The Inventor is a graphic novel about the life of innovator Nikola Tesla. If it takes off, it could become a game, movie, and a series of apps. The aim is to create a transmedia entertainment property.
Popular streaming-music site Rdio has launched a new redesign that clearly takes a ton of cues from iTunes, the company announced today on its blog.
“Change is good,” the company wrote on its blog. “Which is why we’re pleased to …
