The strategy of advertisers sponsoring or producing content that looks much like traditional editorial content has become increasingly common as publishers try to create more sources of revenue.
Animal Planet’s live Internet stream is promoting 10 additional Web channels this week, including webcams for ants, penguins and even cockroaches.
A federal judge’s ruling could halt the resale of digital music as well as other digital good like e-books.
Online advertising, once seen as the great hope for the future, has begun leveling off, which is accelerating the push for new Internet business models.
Sue Gardner will leave the Wikimedia Foundation to spend more time directly advocating for an open Internet.
A 1984 Supreme Court decision to permit home videotaping shaped the evolution of digital media. A ruling last week might have a similar effect.
Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to Yahoo.
SpinMedia, formerly Buzzmedia, will introduce technological improvements to encourage readers to linger and to track them as they move from one device to another.
Computer networks running three major South Korean banks and two of the country’s largest broadcasters were hit Wednesday in attacks that some experts suspected originated in North Korea.
Many jobs today require technology skills, and job seekers who don’t go online miss opportunities.
Aereo, a start-up backed by Barry Diller that captures broadcast signals to be streamed online, is sowing chaos in the cable television business.
Matthew Keys, a 26-year-old social media editor, was charged with assisting the hacking collective Anonymous in an attack on The Los Angeles Times Web site.
The Web site moviereviewintelligence.com, which compiles reviews from newspapers, magazines and Web publications, will stop operations at the end of April, its founder said.
The Unicef Tap Project intensifies its use of social media to promote fund-raising for clean drinking water for children worldwide.
Comic books went digital long ago, but Marvel Comics upped the ante significantly by unveiling a superhero-size slate of mobile and online initiatives.
The prospect of online stores that sell used e-books and digital music has heartened consumer advocates, but publishers and artists are worried.
The company’s efforts to create an Internet radio service to compete with Pandora has been delayed by licensing negotiations with music companies, according to a number of people briefed on the talks.
Facebook plans to announce a substantial redesign of its News Feed — a makeover aimed both at keeping users glued to the social network and luring more advertising dollars.
Despite a guilty plea, military prosecutors decided to proceed with a court-martial that could result in a sentence of life without parole for Pfc. Bradley Manning.
More television shows are being produced only for the Internet, circumventing existing distribution channels.
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