Huffington Post Upgrades Election Tracking Tools For Politics Section

Huffington Post Upgrades Election Tracking Tools For Politics Section

With the current election cycle heating up the Huffington Post has announced upgrades to two of their major political tracking tools Pollster and HuffPost Fundrace. The newly enhanced options will be added to the company’s breaking news, original reporting and […]

Windows Phone 7 OS Gets Spotify Treatment, Premium Subscription Still Required

Windows Phone 7 OS Gets Spotify Treatment, Premium Subscription Still Required

Windows Phone 7 users now have the option to stream music from their devices using the Spotify music service. The WP7 option is the seventh mobile app created by Spotify and was developed with the help of Microsoft engineers which […]

RedditGifts Aims to Break Guinness World Record For Secret Santa

RedditGifts Aims to Break Guinness World Record For Secret Santa

Back in August, Reddit spun off its popular gift-exchange arm to a separate site, RedditGifts. At the time, the social aggregator took on the subreddit’s two mods as full-time employees, and now the newly-minted former subreddit is launching its first […]

Demand Media Up Slightly After Better Than Expected Q3 Earnings Call

Demand Media Up Slightly After Better Than Expected Q3 Earnings Call

After tumbling in the later part of October on news a glitch had impeded traffic significantly, stock in Demand Media was revealed to have slightly better than expected Q3 earnings on a call Monday. Losses were more than halved in […]

Netflix, MGM Hook Up in UK & Ireland

Netflix, MGM Hook Up in UK & Ireland

Last month, Netflix announced that after first expanding to Canada and then Latin America, their long awaited launch in the United Kingdom and Ireland was official and imminent. Two weeks later, the company has announced a partnership with film studio […]

MSM Embracing Blogging, Study Finds

MSM Embracing Blogging, Study Finds

Mainstream media sources still like to have a bit of a go at the blogosphere, painting the same blogs they cite for a growing amount of their digital content as imprecise, unpolished opinion pieces published from the comfort of somebody’s […]

New York Times Files Lawsuit Over Huffington Post Parenting Blog

New York Times Files Lawsuit Over Huffington Post Parenting Blog

The New York Times on Friday evening filed a lawsuit  in the U.S. District Court of Manhattan which requests that the Huffington Post (owned by AOL, inc.) change the name of their parenting blog. The Huffington Post recently launched “Parentlode” which […]

YouTube and Disney join forces to bring original content to the web

YouTube and Disney join forces to bring original content to the web

YouTube has been making some pretty interesting moves lately as it tries to make its video service more than just a stopping point to watch Internet memes or cat videos. As it announced the other week it is setting aside […]

Google TV’s secret sauce for success – porn

Google TV’s secret sauce for success – porn

There is a truism that the reason that the reason that the VCR won in the living room was because it made it easier to watch your porn without feeling like a pervert since only you and the rental clerk […]

Time Warner, Viacom Continue to Spar Over iPad Streaming

Time Warner, Viacom Continue to Spar Over iPad Streaming

Although the two parties appeared to call a legal truce this summer over the streaming of popular content from channels like MTV and Comedy Central via iPad, the “standstill agreement” seems to have moved away from the possibility of litigation-free […]

Yahoo Wagers on iPad, Competes With Flipboard With ‘Livestand’ Launch

Yahoo Wagers on iPad, Competes With Flipboard With ‘Livestand’ Launch

After a delay, Yahoo has finally launched its Flipboard competitor Livestand, bringing much of the company’s copious content to the iPad. Like Flipboard before it, the app is tailored to take the content from across Yahoo’s third-party content network to […]

Google Could Be Gearing Up To Take On Pay TV Market

Google Could Be Gearing Up To Take On Pay TV Market

If recent rumors are true Google could be preparing to give Comcast, DirecTV and other “pay TV” company’s a run for their money by launching a competing nationwide network. Google is currently building an ultra-fast fiber-optic network in Kansas City, […]

Amazon Launches Lending Library For Prime Customers

Amazon Launches Lending Library For Prime Customers

In an effort to lure more Amazon customers to its paid Prime membership program, Amazon has launched a book lending library for Amazon Prime subscribers. The service costs $79 per year (with discounted rates for students and moms) and entitles […]

‘New York Times’ Paywall Actually Bumped Home Analog Subscribers

‘New York Times’ Paywall Actually Bumped Home Analog Subscribers

While the controversial paywall implemented by the New York Times has not yet managed to offset print losses, there is some good circulation news that the paper of record can chalk up to the move. Several papers across the country […]