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In a move that could increase competition and give consumers more cable TV choices, Sony (NYSE: SNE) said Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas it planned to start testing a cloud-based TV service in 2014. The company said the yet-to-be-named service would include live...

Recent industry chatter about the possibility of streaming only cable may have been more than idle chatter. Sources told Bloomberg Friday that Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) was close to a deal with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) to buy its OnCue Internet based pay-tv service. According to Bloomberg’s...

Speculation about so-called over-the-top or streaming cable via the Internet has been around for years. According to some TV-industry experts, it may be about to happen – as early as in 2014. Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA) CEO Philippe Dauman started the ball rolling at the UBS media conference in New...

According to market research firm, IDC, by the end of 2013, worldwide PC sales will have fallen more than 10 percent over a year ago. IDC said it would turn out to be the worst year on record for PC sales. Total sales this year, IDC said, would be about 314 million PCs, with most of those in...

Word of Katie Couric's jump from television to online has the entertainment and digital industries abuzz with speculation. Does her hiring as a "Global Anchor" on Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) signal the latest seismic shift in how consumers are getting their video content, or is it just a way for the...

IBM's (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer, Watson, is evolving faster than many imagined. From game show contestant, to medical consultant, and soon, running an information booth on the Internet through what the company calls the Watson cloud service. Gizmodo reported Thursday that IBM announced Watson...

Sina Corporation (NASDAQ: SINA) was up more than three percent in after hours trading after announcing the firm's third quarter results. The internet media company's Q3 EPS came in at $0.42 versus the Street estimate of $0.20. Earnings per share were up 118 percent from the year-ago quarter. ...

A new report from market research firm, Gartner, suggested the use of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Glass might save businesses as much as $1 Billion annually by 2017. So far, most of the attention on Google’s new smart eyewear has been on the consumer market. Gartner said that overlooks the impact...

Hiring military veterans isn’t just a “feel good” move, it’s also a “smart” move. Especially in the tech sector, according to speakers in a presentation at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) headquarters in New York Friday. Many “hire a veteran” efforts emphasize the debt owed to returning servicemen and...

Investors are always looking for the “next big thing.” Business Insider, in a recent report, suggested the mobile health apps industry might be worth considering. Statistics support that notion with BI pointing out skyrocketing health care costs and the fact that health-related spending in the...

The Chinese language version of Techweb (complete with a not-so-subtle graphic depicting Skype’s emergence as the new sheriff in town) noted Friday that Chinese mobile Internet company TOM Online will turn Skype operations in mainland China over to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) November 24. The Next...

It's become a term retailers have learned to dread: “showrooming.” That's when consumers visit brick-and-mortar stores to test out products they're considering – then head home and buy those items on-line,at a better price. Showrooming has certainly taken a toll on some retailers. A Pew...

The face of broadcast television, at least the part that makes money from cable and satellite providers, may be about to change. Bloomberg reported that DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR), are looking into capturing broadcast-TV signals...

This could be a game changer. Literally. CNET reported Monday that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) opened its Shield gaming device up to the universe of Android games on the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Play store. This move changes the number of games available for Shield from hundreds to thousands...

AOL (NYSE: AOL) owned hyper-local news website, Patch, which had 1000 writers working in 900 national locations in December 2012, is now down to 14 designated market areas (DMAs). New Patch CEO Bud Rosenthal outlined the move in a memo Wednesday morning reported on Poynter. Rosenthal said the...