Californian-based video services provider Ooyala has announced today a massive deal with the Yahoo! Corporation of Japan that will see the two companies jointly market Ooyala’s video solutions to broadcasters, publishers and enterprise users throughout the second largest online video market in the world.
The multi-year agreement gives …
Spotify may still be signing one music label (That’d be Universal) away from its long-awaited US launch, but the streaming music company has just made another move suggesting that it’s getting ready to try and take America by storm. The company has sold a stake of just under 5% to investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers for $50 …
Thanks to a new partnership between startups WHERE and Bump, finding new places to try out will be as easy as tapping phones. And, no, that’s not a euphemism.
Bump’s technology – which allows users to share data between mobile devices when tapped together – may be familiar to you; it’s already being used by companies like PayPal and …
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Conor Friedersdorf.
No matter if you’re aiming to overthrow your government, or to simply shame your local state legislature, some best-practices for a D.I.Y. revolution have emerged of late.
As Egyptians revolted, Malcolm Gladwell argued in The New Yorker that the least interesting …
Why wait for your official spokesperson to make a comment or until you get that TV time to say what you really feel about football? The New York Times reports that NFL players are taking to Twitter to express their unhappiness about the current bargaining going on between the NFL and the NFL Players Union regarding the collective …
If there’s anything I love more than Apple rumors, it’s wildly conflicting Apple rumors that surface within 24 hours of one another.
Bloomberg says the iPad 2 might be delayed until June!
All Things Digital says Apple will announce the iPad 2 next Wednesday!
What about the new MacBook Pros that might launch this Thursday?! Will …
Ah, streaming media. Your promise is so elusive. The technology is here and robust enough to shoulder the burden, but the content companies have insisted that you be viewable first and foremost on big boy computers, with set-top boxes and mobile devices granted access on a case by case basis.
If this sounds like a conversation you’ve …
For those of you eagerly anticipating the release date of the Nintendo 3DS, the company officially announced the titles that will be available on the release date. They hope to have more than 30 titles out before the E3 Expo in June. Drumroll please for these games available March 27:
– Pilotwings Resort
– Steel Diver
– …
If you were Steve Jobs, what better way to celebrate your 56th birthday than with a launch of a new line of MacBook Pros?
After news of a meeting in which retail employees signed a non-disclosure agreement, the Internet is abuzz with rumors of an upcoming product launch. Sources at BGR speculate that the new line of laptops will be …
Apple’s recently-announced subscription model for apps has caused a bit of a ruckus with publishers. To recap, any content-based iPhone and iPad apps wishing to leverage recurring subscriptions must give Apple a 30% cut of sales that originate from within iTunes or the app itself. Subscriptions can be sold outside the app but pricing …
It’s hard to discern the difference between the lower quality, compressed 16-bit tracks that are available for download through Apple and other digital retailers and the 24-bit original audio recording so it probably doesn’t make a huge difference for the majority of listeners. For the music snobs who can tell the inferior track from …
Microsoft’s made history with the record-setting launch of the Kinect sensor for their Xbox 360. While the games released at launch were generally a bit twee, much of the buzz around the device came from hackers who made Kinect useful in ways that weren’t necessarily intended. Everything from holography to Super Mario interoperability to …