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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...

Sprint May Offer iPhone In The Future, Analyst Predicts

New York — The recent news of Verizon Wireless eliminating its unlimited data plan on Thursday could spark Sprint into joining Apple’s iPhone ranks,...

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...

Foursquare Signs Half a Million Merchants, Embraces Android

New York — Foursquare announced on its blog Wednesday that the company has surpassed 500,000 merchant accounts, just two weeks after the company reached...

EBay Bets $240M on Mobile Banking

San Jose, Calif. — EBay Inc. announced Thursday that it has agreed to pay $240 million in cash to acquire Zong, a provider in...

Apple's App Downloads Surpass 15 Billion

San Jose, Calif. — Apple Corp. announced Thursday that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its app store from more than 200...

Disney's Iger Says Owners "Committed" To Hulu Sale

Sun Valley, Idaho — Weeks after Hulu’s board began to explore a possible sale, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger announced at the Allen &...

Gaming Revenue to Exceed $74 Billion in 2011

San Francisco, Calif. — Consumer spending on video game software and hardware is expected to hit $74 billion this year, research group Gartner predicted...

Facebook Partners with Skype

Palo Alto, Calif. — Facebook announced today during a live press conference on their Facebook Live page that they have partnered with Skype to...

Twitter Gets Analytical with BackType

Twitter announced Tuesday that it had acquired analytics startup BackType, a move that AdWeek said will enable the microblogging company to offer more services...