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500 Million Connected Televisions by 2015

New York — By 2015,  more than half a billion connected TVs will be hosted worldwide according to the DisplaySearch Q2’11 Quarterly TV Design...

YouTube Plays with Cosmic Panda Redesign

YouTube has never won awards for its appearance or user interface, but a new experimental redesign called Cosmic Panda demonstrates the company is addressing...

What You Missed by Not Reading Groupon's TOS

Chicago — Groupon announced changes to their privacy policy on Sunday, saying they will collect more information from users to share with business partners....

SpongeBob Tells a Twitter Tale

SpongeBob SquarePants’ next adventure will be shared solely on Twitter, in the latest example of companies finding ways to use the platform to meet...

Intel Invests $2.6 Million in Mobile Entertainment Studio Skyrockit

San Francisco, Calif. — Mobile entertainment agency Skyrockit announced Tuesday that it has raised $2.6 million in a new funding round led by Intel...

Retro Games Part of Marvel's Transmedia Strategy

Marvel.com launched a free videogame as an element in the buildup to the feature film Captain America: The First Avenger, which opens on July...

Clear Channel Launches Interactive Radio with Two-Day Concert

Clear Channel Radio is using a two-day live music event in Las Vegas to kick off its relaunch of iHeartRadio as a competitor to...

CDN Startup CloudFlare Raises Additional $20 Million

San Francisco, Calif. — CloudFlare has raised $20 million in a new round of investment funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Founded in 2009,...

Badgeville Raises $12 Million to Gamify Business

Menlo Park, Calif. — Badgeville, a start-up company that provides game mechanics to websites, raised $12 million in a Series B funding round led...

News Corp. Drops $12.5 Billion BSkyB Bid as Scandal Grows

New York — News Corp., which has a 39 percent shareholding in BSkyB, announced Wednesday its decision to withdraw its $12.5 billion acquisition bid...