By Janko Roettgers May 3 2013, 3:00am PDT
Vimeo on demand is getting a new movie starring Kristen Bell as a day-and-date release, with the film premiering online the same day it comes out in theaters.
Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 3 2013, 12:00am PDT
Barnes & Noble is integrating many Google services -- including Google Play, Gmail, Google Maps and the Chrome browser -- into its Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets.
Read More » By Stacey Higginbotham May 2 2013, 6:30pm PDT
Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt is watching the Aereo legal battle with interest. If the upstart prevails, Britt may try a similar tactic himself.
Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 2 2013, 3:00pm PDT
Bitcoin is a hot topic for the tech and finance industries. GigaOM is hosting an exclusive get-together in San Jose on May 16th where people from Facebook, Google and Expensify will share their thoughts on the crypto-currency.
Read More » By Mathew Ingram May 2 2013, 11:53am PDT
It may seem like a sideshow, or a service that can only bring noise and chaos to the news, but RapGenius and its approach towards annotation shouldn't be dismissed out of hand just yet.
Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 2 2013, 10:16am PDT
Traditional media brands are cranking out video content in the hopes of persuading marketers to shift ad budgets from TV to online offerings. But can companies like Conde Nast and the Wall Street journal deliver the necessary quality and audience size?
Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 2 2013, 7:49am PDT
E-singles startup Byliner has a new president: Deanna Brown, who was previously the CEO of Federated Media and before that held executive roles at Scripps, Yahoo and AOL. She also founded Inside.com and Gaming Industry News and cofounded CondéNet.
Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 1 2013, 2:38pm PDT
News site The Root has rolled out a page that shows the most popular tweets and trends among black Americans, who are heavy Twitter users.
Read More » By Mathew Ingram May 1 2013, 11:39am PDT
A trade group says that newspapers like the New York Times have seen large increases in circulation, but that's partly because they are allowed to count their readers multiple times. The industry needs to do better.
Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 1 2013, 9:05am PDT
The Atlantic is launching an ebooks division that will publish e-singles and curated collections of content from the magazine's archives. The first e-single is only available through Amazon's Kindle Singles store for now, though it will soon be available at other retailers.
Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 1 2013, 8:44am PDT
Hachette announced Wednesday that it will make all of its ebooks, including new titles, available to libraries nationwide. New ebooks will be priced at three times the cost of the print version, but a library only has to buy a copy once.
Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 30 2013, 2:52pm PDT
This week, Digg and Feedly both surveyed RSS users on the types of social features they'd like to see integrated into a Google Reader replacement. Feedly says it will roll out an updated product in a couple weeks, while Digg's product launches in June and is likely to be paid.
Read More » By Janko Roettgers Apr 30 2013, 12:43pm PDT
More than four million people now pay to access Hulu Plus streams, and all of that streaming shows: The site registered more than one billion streams across its free and paid service in Q1.
Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 30 2013, 9:30am PDT
HarperCollins will launch a digital-first line of mysteries and thrillers this fall. The company also said that as of August 1, it will pay all of its digital-first authors royalties on a monthly basis, competing with Amazon Publishing.
Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 30 2013, 8:47am PDT
Nielsen is rolling out a pilot product that lets TV networks track viewing of shows on their websites. The tool doesn't yet account for viewing on mobile devices, and the pilot doesn't include viewing on sites like Hulu and YouTube.
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