Kids often have Bert and Ernie as imaginary friends, but they can actually see them move thanks to a collaboration between Qualcomm Inc. and Sesame Workshop. The partners demonstrated an augmented reality experience protype playset at 2012 International CES that brings physical toys to life.

While much of the attention at 2012 International CES was on connected television and related over-the-top broadband services, existing Pay TV operators are looking at TV Everywhere in order to give subscribers the control and flexibility they’re demanding. Researchers at The Diffusion Group took a look to forecast what will happen.

According to mobile research and consultancy firm research2guidance, 2011 saw application download revenues of $ 6.8 billion. Meanwhile, the market for mobile app development services reached $20.5 billion during the same period.

Analysts at Consumer Reports, the independent and nonprofit product-testing organization, have chosen the five most important trends seen at the 2012 International CES, which officially opens Tuesday in Las Vegas.

IPG Lab, the research arm of marketing and advertising conglomerate IPG Mediabrands, has three anti-predictions to share for 2012. These are basically things that many in the company's field of expertise have got wrong, putting millions of dollars at risk.

Today’s Nielsen Company & Billboard’s 2011 Music Industry Report reveals that digital music sales accounted for an eyelash over half (50.3 percent) of all sales, marking the first time digital overtook physical.

Reston, Va. – E-commerce spending for the 2011 holiday shopping season reached a record $37.2 billion, up 15% from 2010 levels, according to new figures from Reston-based comScore.

Video game rental subscription service GameFly Inc. started 2012 by wrapping up the previous 12 months of members’ activity into top ten lists of the titles most popular with gamers.

New research from Chadwick Martin Bailey found that half of appropriately capable smartphone owners had scanned a QR code, and a fifth of those had gone on to make a purchase. It also pinpointed ways to improve those numbers.

Venture-backed companies in the U.S. netted more capital despite fewer exits during 2011, according to new figures from Dow Jones VentureSource. The year marked a 14 percent drop in deal activity but a 26 percent increase in capital raised, compared with 2010 figures.