Jason Krikorian, co-founder of video technology company Sling Media, has joined venture capital firm DCM as a general partner. In January ‘09, Krikorian, along with his brother and Sling Media co-founder Blake, left the company less than a year after it was bought by EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) as part of…

MySpace is finalizing a deal with social messaging platform Threadbox that involves transferring the service’s staff and assets to the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). unit, Venturebeat reported.

For most of HTC’s existence, it was a little-known cellphone manufacturer making more Windows Mobile phones than anyone else in the world. Now the Taiwanese company has ambitions to create its own brand and be recognized as making the best Android smartphones. Turns out, it has just a few ideas…

But how much are they willing to pay to access music from iTunes via the cloud? A survey by marketing researcher NPD Group estimates that a base subscription rate of $10 a month would attract 13- to 15 million customers out of roughly 50 million iTunes users.

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and GE Capital joint venture Peacock Equity is the latest investor to back Vivox, which powers voice chat in online worlds including Linden Lab’s Second Life and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Online Entertainment’s Everquest. Peacock Equity is putting $2 million into the company and hints that NBC…

It hasn’t been the best year for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in the tablet market, by any measure ... There’s been the cancellation of the company’s hotly anticipated Courier tablet, suggestions by HP (NYSE: HPQ) that it will use webOS and not Windows as the operating system in some (or all)…

Fring is no longer providing support for Skype, a week after the mobile app expanded its features to include two-way video calling for the iPhone. Fring previously had allowed its users to make calls and IMs across Skype, in addition to others like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Talk and ICQ. In…

Is Hulu Plus worth $10 a month? It all depends on the programming you like to watch, how much of it you want to access and how often. I’ve been using the long-anticipated subscription service from the joint venture of Disney (NYSE: DIS), News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) and NBC Universal…

All of the major smartphone platforms lost share to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android in a recent three-month period, even though they all gained subscribers due to the market’s overall growth.

So far this year, Android stands out most to developers with close to 60 percent of them having recently developed for the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) operating system. What’s more, Apple’s iOS now follows as the second most popular platform. The findings were produced by Vision Mobile on behalf of Telefonica…

Click Forensics, which provides tools to online advertisers and publishers so that they can reduce click fraud, has raised $6 million in its third round of funding. While click fraud rates have fallen off somewhat in recent years, it remains a significant problem, accounting for about 15.3 percent of overall…

The mobile music scene is once again a hotbed of startup activity. In the first wave of innovation, the focus was on ringtones. Now the fashionable thing is music subscription services. The list of companies dabbling in the space are too many to count. Just this week, a Berkeley, Calif.…

Best Buy will launch its own mobile broadband data service on July 11 for some of the devices it sells in many of its big-box retail outlets. The story has been dribbling out over the past few weeks with Best Buy leaking the details itself in an ad that was…

The latest in a line of reports stretching back several months about Hulu’s plans to try a subscription service comes courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that tests could start by the end of June for the so-called Hulu Plus service reportedly priced at $9.99 a month. Notice all…

Telegraphed for weeks, the FCC’s vote on an inquiry into Title II classification of broadband (and other options) came as no surprise. As a result, reaction came thick and quick to the decision. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a fan of network neutrality regulations and FCC chairman Julius Genachowski’s so-called “third way”…

Just when you were wondering what the next big thing in online advertising would be after demand-side platforms, one possible answer is firms that use search data to re-target users for an ad campaign. Magnetic is one company that specializes in re-targeting and has been able to rack up deals…

The Rubicon Project is doing a mix of hiring and firing as it brings in more automated services to meet clients’ demand for real-time bidding services, the company told paidContent. The company is letting go three staffers in the U.S. as well as two others in Hong Kong, as Rubicon…

OnLive, the much-hyped games on demand service founded by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) alum Steve Perlman, is launching Thursday. The company has promised to let people stream “any game, any time” on their TV via a special “micro-console” or directly on their PC via a browser plug-in, bypassing the need for…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has committed nearly $1 million for five national public media orgs to build a common digital platform. NPR, PBS, American Public Media, Public Radio International (PRI), and the Public Radio Exchange want a better way to share their own public media content and to encourage…