Meh: Amazon Prime gets more quasi-entertaining TV shows from HGTV, Food Network, & Travel Channel

Amazon Prime, the complimentary streaming video service from online retail giant Amazon, announced a new licensing deal today with Scripps Network that will bring a slew of cable TV show episodes to its library of content.

Samsung wins the right to see the full Apple-HTC patent-licensing agreement

Score one for Samsung in this long-running patent battle that started way back in August with that billion-dollar judgement against the Korean company.

Apple to get $6-8 for each HTC Android phone sold — is Samsung next?

A few hundred million more or less from HTC is pocket change for the Cupertino giant that expects to earn $52 billion in the next quarter alone. Samsung, on the other hand, sold 57 million smartphones in the last quarter.

Motorola Mobility and Microsoft in patent licensing cat fight

Usually, patent disputes are courtly affairs, decided before a judge and making most readers nod off and turn to the latest Lindsay Lohan news. Thank goodness for companies such as Motorola Mobility and Microsoft, who are having a very public …

EMI terminates its music licensing contract with Grooveshark

Grooveshark is undoubtedly playing a sad song today, but it’s definitely not from an artist licensed by major music company EMI.

EMI, one of the largest music publishers in the world, has terminated its contract with the streaming music service. …

Hasbro licenses game characters and brands from Zynga

Hasbro and Zynga are announcing a deal where the big toy company will create toys based on Zynga’s game characters and social gaming brands. It’s a marriage of the old new game worlds that makes sense as the physical and …

Grooveshark denies service to Germany due to “unreasonably high” licensing costs

Streaming music site Grooveshark has decided to restrict access to Germany due to high licensing costs, the site announced today.

Grooveshark lets its users legally upload music that can be enjoyed by the entire community. And much like YouTube, if …

Whoa, Microsoft’s patent deals now cover half of all Android devices

Yah, you read that right. As of today, Microsoft’s patent licensing agreements with Android manufacturers now cover more than half of all Android devices,  thanks to the recent addition of Taiwan-based Compal.

Compal is the tenth company to form an …