Aereo CEO on CBS & Fox cable threats: Can you really disenfranchise 54M antenna users?

"They're independent businesses, they can choose to do what they wish to," said Aereo's Chet Kanojia at the Ad Age Digital conference today.

Ev Williams’ Medium acquires long-form journalism site ‘Matter’

Medium, the publishing platform startup founded by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, has purchased long-form journalism project Matter, the companies announced today.

With $11.3M to back it, Music Mastermind’s Zya app will turn consumers into music creators

EA's Chillingo division will publish the title this summer.

iSteve: Funny or Die’s hilarious take on the Apple story now free to watch

If you thought Pirates of Silicon Valley was inaccurate, just wait until you see what the Funny or Die folks have done with its recounting of Steve Jobs' life.

Google Fiber TV adds HBO & Cinemax to its programming lineup

Google has forged an agreement to bring premium TV channels HBO and Cinemax to its Google Fiber TV customers, the company announced today.

Once upon a time, a children’s book app got kids to read at record rates

Childrens book application FarFaria is celebrating its first birthday by announcing major milestones, "record-setting" reading engagement, and its vision for the world of children's literacy.

Twitter might be making TV deals with Viacom & Comcast

If a rumored music service wasn't enough to push Twitter into the territory media, now the company might be trying to get TV content playing through the service.

iTunes turning 10 years old, still owns 63% of music download business

Last year, 44 million Americans bought at least one song or album from iTunes. This month, the digital music store that changed the way we buy music will celebrate its 10th birthday.

Defiance TV show isn’t bad, but will it interest you for a whole season?

You don't have to watch the show and play the game at the same time, but it's a fair bet that these two will live or die together.

Video curation site Waywire unveils new Pinterest-like design

Waywire, the hyped video site co-founded by Newark mayor Cory Booker, has released a new version of the service today that borrows plenty of design cues from Pinterest and adds some new functionality.

Recurious debuts Dinorama educational mobile game where the emphasis is on fun

With funding from Reid Hoffman's Greylock and other famous investors, Recurious could stand out among education app-makers.

Netflix plans first steps to move from Silverlight to HTML5

With Microsoft planning to end support for its Silverlight video plugin by 2021, Netflix has begun to shift towards using HTML5 for video playback.

Online news comes into its own as small nonprofit website wins a Pulitzer

A tiny, nonprofit news site has bested century-old newspapers and online media organizations to win a Pulitzer for its environmental reporting.

Boston Marathon bombings: How tech is helping

As everyone connected to the Internet knows by now, Boston has been the scene of at least three bombings today at the Boston Marathon and the JFK Library. For coverage of that news, Boston.com has a liveblog that it is continuously updating, and CNN has more details and coverage.

Here's what big technology companies are doing in response.

Google, not Facebook, will win the true war for likes, Forrester says

"The database of affinity is Facebook's birthright," Forrester Analyst Nate Elliott says. "And it's going to blow it.

Comcast says the free ride is over for basic cable — encryption is coming

Years ago you could just connect a coaxial cable to your television for access to a ton of cable channels, which eventually was disabled after cable providers decided to start encrypting the bulk of those channels. And now, they're all going to get encrypted.

PSY’s latest video hits a record 67 million views in two days … but it’s nasty, not funny

A lot more people, proportionally, dislike this video than Gangnam Style.

OMGPOP founder’s new startup could be ultimate place to store your photos

Picturelife is the latest project by Charles Forman, who sold his last startup, OMGPOP, to Zynga for $180 million last year. It is a service that protects your pictures by backing up and organizing all your photos and videos in the cloud.