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Showtime is launching a standalone streaming service in 2015
Let's say that your premium cable-drama tastes range more toward Homeland or Masters of Sex than they do Game of Thrones or Girls. Good news, then! If you're getting tired...
Soundcloud has secured a music deal with the Warner Music Group
Everybody has to grow up sometime, and for Germany-based streaming service Soundcloud, it appears that time is now. Broken first by the Wall Street Journal, Soundcloud announced today a new...
Publicis forms media powerhouse with $3.7 billion Sapient acquisition
Global ad giant Publicis is spending big to position itself as the top agency for brands riding the digital wave, after it announced a deal that sees it acquire Sapient...
HP and Bastian create a smartwatch that looks like... a normal watch
HP announced a partnership with US-based fashion designer Michael Bastian earlier this year to develop a smartwatch. A single teaser picture and a very broad description of the watch’s functionality...
FCC considers hybrid approach to net neutrality
The US Federal Communications Commission appears set to reclassify broadband so that it comes under the agency’s authority, but without explicitly prohibiting special access deals between broadband and content companies,...
IBM has joined forces with Twitter
Computing goliath IBM has signed a deal with Twitter to use tweets to make smarter business decisions. The agreement will let IBM’s 10,000 consultants access the some 500 million tweets...
New FCC rule change is a massive victory for internet television
Right now internet services don't always have the opportunity to show the same content as traditional TV, but the FCC might be about to change that. Chairman Tom Wheeler described...
YouTube is considering an ad-free subscription service
If those preroll ads before YouTube videos annoy you, there’s some good news, the Google-owned service could one day let you pay to switch them off. At Recode’s Code Mobile...
Apple is actually beating Samsung in South Korea
The fact that Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have been monster hits in all of their launch countries thus far isn't a surprise. What is surprising, however, are...
Digital music sales on iTunes are actually falling
Apple’s acquisition of Beats Electronics and the associated Beats Music subscription service may have raised eyebrows in some quarters, but the move makes all the more sense when you consider...