ThinkstockAmericans, on average, consume nearly 60 hours of media every week. How those hours are spent and what devices the time is spent on is changing though. The Nielsen Company has released latest Cross-Platform…
In separate reports, Comcast said it would indefinitely extend low-cost broadband service to poor families, and that it has begun to expand its Wi-Fi network to homes in the Chicago area.
ThinkstockThe U.S. Solicitor General’s office filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday in support of U.S. broadcast TV networks seeking to extract licensing fees from Aereo Inc. The case is set…
Dish Network and Walt Disney reached a long-term deal Monday that allows the second-largest U.S. satellite TV provider to carry Disney-owned networks, including outside of a traditional TV subscription.
Yandex, which operates the largest search engine in Russia, has teamed up with Google in a deal that will allow each company's advertising clients to bid on the advertising inventory of the other.
Most opinion seems to be that Netflix gave up on its stand for net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated identically, when it agreed to pay a fee to improve…
Weibo, the Chinese social-media platform often compared to Twitter, may go public in the second quarter. The move comes as the government cracks down on the expression of politically sensitive messages online.
ThinkstockThe $45 billion buyout that Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) offered Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWC) chopped the legs right out from under Charter Communications Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CHTR) offer of around $37 billion. But Charter’s…
In a stock move that is starting to defy gravity, social media giant Facebook has eclipsed the market value of two longtime stalwart members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average: AT&T and Coca-Cola.
If you have noticed that loading videos from Netflix is taking a ridiculous amount of time, you are not alone. The big telecommunications companies have been slowing Netflix's streaming capacity because Netflix will not…
Dublin, Ireland-based King Digital Entertainment, makers of the wildly popular mobile game Candy Crush Saga, has filed a Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) to…
While Sony-backed films took three of the top five spots in this past weekend's U.S. box office, it was "The Lego Movie" from Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner, that came out on…
courtesy of ComcastThe announced $45 billion merger between Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) has raised a lot of concerns among consumers that the combined company will be able…
Wikimedia CommonsUnder Armour Inc. (NYSE: UA) lost its chance to become an Olympic contender in the cutthroat competition of the athletic apparel business this week, when the U.S. speed-skating team at the Sochi Olympics…
What happens if the government kills the proposed combination of Time Warner Cable and Comcast? Cable service will remain poor. Customer satisfaction with cable companies will remain awful. Attempts to raise rates and cut…