Mind the facts: Quick tips to stay vigilant while reading news

It’s easy to become caught up in tweets or Facebook posts alleging a story is true when there is very little to back it up. Recent events like the Boston Marathon bombing and fertilizer plant explosion in Texas incite a …

Hulu still attracting interest from would-be buyers Amazon, Yahoo, & Guggenheim Digital Media

While Hulu's owners officially took the streaming video service off the market last year, would-be buyers are still showing plenty of interest.

EA reportedly working with Fox to develop Battlefield: Bad Company TV series

Multiple production companies and the executive producer from Alias are bringing the ragtag gang of characters from the Battlefield: Bad Company games to the small screen.

Fox finally wises up, will start selling digital movies before they leave theaters

Major film studio Fox is revising its business plan when it comes to newly released movies.

Fox wants courts to ban Dish’s Hopper DVR features until trial

Broadcast TV network Fox is asking U.S. courts to block certain functionality from satellite television service Dish Network's Hopper DVR box, but will it's request be granted?

Aereo moving full steam ahead with TV plans after federal judge’s decision

Broadcast TV networks have lost their legal battle to stop influential media businessman Barry Diller’s Aereo from operating  for the time being, thanks to a decision by a federal court judge issued Wednesday.

The judge ruled that Aereo could continue …

Legal battles erupt over Dish Network’s commercial-skipping DVR box

When Dish Network debuted its new “Hopper” DVR box for subscribers of its satellite television service, the assumption was that it would help grow the viewing audience — not help people avoid the insanely long commercial breaks between recorded programs.…

Netflix brings Fox TV shows and movies to Latin America

Netflix has reached an agreement with Twentieth Century Fox that will bring a ton of popular TV shows and movies to subscribers in Latin America, the company announced today.

The move is part of Netflix’s effort to drive its streaming …

Aereo files 2nd countersuit against Fox, PBS for right to transmit broadcast TV

Aereo, which streams local broadcast television to your mobile devices, has filed a second countersuit against PBS, Fox, and two New York broadcasters already embroiled in legal battle with the entertainment tech startup.

Aereo allows people to receive broadcast TV …

As legal battle with TV networks escalates, Aereo launches in NYC — We tested it, and it rocks

I’m sitting in my office (by which I mean my kitchen) watching Rachel Ray on my iPad and Kathy Lee on my laptop. These aren’t clips or day or old episodes. It’s live programming that’s streaming to me via Aereo, …

Aereo says people have a legal right to rabbit ears and DVRs, countersues the big TV networks

Aereo, the New York startup that is building a new system for streaming and recoding live TV, is countersuing the big TV networks that filed a lawsuit against it at the beginning of this month. The company, which is backed …

Streaming service Aereo ready for legal war with TV networks

Incumbent industries have a history of challenging new technologies that disrupt the established way they do business. For example, AT&T sued to keep everything from the answering machine to the Hush-A-Phone out of the market. Yesterday’s news that all the …

Fox and PBS file suit against streaming TV service, Aereo

File this one under bound to happen. IAC’s new service, Aereo, which charges users $12 a month to stream the basic TV networks and a selection of cable channels, is the target of a lawsuit filed by Fox, WPIX, Univision, …

What happened to Multiverse? The inside story of its closure and the truth about that Firefly MMO

On December 7, 2011, gaming-platform creator Multiverse Network ceased operations. Formed in 2004, Multiverse was looking to change the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) by empowering independent game developers to create their own virtual worlds, with minimal start …

Sony, Universal and Fox employees are pirates, too

Major motion picture studios and record labels have been waging war on so-called “pirates” — the consumers who download copyrighted content free of charge on the Internet.

So you wouldn’t expect any of these so-called “pirates” to be employed by …

Piracy: Fox’s TV show paywall doesn’t pay (so far)

Piracy of Fox TV shows is on the rise just one week after the television studio decided to delay all new programming on the web by eight days, reports Torrent Freak.

Under Fox’s new “TV anywhere” policy, only members who …

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch targeted by pie-thrower in Parliamentary hearing

Media mogul and News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch was reportedly attacked by a pie-thrower during hearings before members of the British Parliament Tuesday.

According to live reports, a man threw a “white substance” at Murdoch during the hearings before the …

Hulu gets ready to put itself up for sale

Hulu is retaining investment banking firms Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners to facilitate a potential sale of the company. Prospective bidders were notified today that the sale process will begin about two weeks from now, according to information from anonymous …