In last week’s earnings call, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) said it will continue to push hard into streaming video. Now, in a new licensing deal with Disney-ABC (NYSE: DIS) Television Group, Amazon Prime members can stream shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Lost and Spider-Man for free.

Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.

Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. For ¥1,480 a month or roughly $18.50, Japanese subscribers can watch across an array of devices just like U.S. subscribers of Hulu Plus with one exception—Hulu Japan…

When a section was cut from Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin’s new book The Man Of Numbers, Devlin could have pitched it as an article to Scientific American or Wired. Instead, he decided to self-publish it as an e-single, “Leonardo & Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat *Apple* to Market…

The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly skeptical that the event pulled in the 2 billion viewers that the UK government predicted, the event—especially if you count not just the live,…

The clock has been ticking for Paul Slavin at ABC (NYSE: DIS) News since it was clear that he wouldn’t get the top job following David Westin’s departure. That went to Ben Sherwood instead, an ABC News alum who left twice and came back a third time, rather than Slavin,…

Make sure to keep your iPad on when watching TV because there may be a trend developing in primetime programs that have companion content synchronized on that second screen in your lap. Fox announced the launch today of a free app tied to its drama series Bones, the second such…

When it launched last year, the iPad was hailed as the fresh-faced savior of the beleaguered and tired publishing industry. That idea looks like it may have been put to bed for now: the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations reveal that publishing magazines for tablets and other…

As part of its efforts to expand its “real-time” market data to mobile and the desktop, CNBC (NYSE: GE) is launching a new subscription product that includes global market information from over 100 exchanges worldwide, live access to CNBC global programming and Real-Time (NYSE: TWX) price and news alerts. The…

As its rivals look to buttress their existing “real-time” data businesses with separate digital products, CNBC (NYSE: GE) has released its first iPad app that promises to bring up-to-the-second financial information to a more general audience. While most real-time services costs thousands of dollars in subscription fees, CNBC is keeping…

Flipboard launched in July to rave reviews and intense interest in an iPad app that made Twitter and Facebook look downright glossy. But until now it has been more of a graphic-enhanced, socially driven RSS reader with pages that flip than the “social magazine” promised in the description. That starts…

Poor Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV was starting to get overshadowed in recent months with all the attention being paid to the likes of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV and Boxee. But Monday’s unveiling of iOs 4.2 should bring back some buzz for a device no one should underestimate.

CNBC (NYSE: GE), looking to capture a wider share of growing digital and mobile ad dollars, has named veteran sales exec Lou Tosto to head up its advertising in those areas. Tosto most recently finished a year-long stint at Linkstorm. But he is probably better known for the time he…

Naysayers continue expressing suspicion Spotify will launch in the U.S.. But Spotify’s not alone in discovering the challenge of an overseas launch. Here’s a newsflash for the sceptics: the list of U.S. services which haven’t found their way out of America is also long…

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has hired mobile gaming veteran Greg Ballard to lead its digital games business, as the company continues to double-down on the effort. Ballard is joining Warner Bros. only four months after he was hired by mobile video ad network Transpera as CEO; he had previously spent…

Tecca, the first company from the digital media fund set up by Best Buy with Fuse Capital, zeros in on personal tech shopping but it’s not a single store experience. Instead, users of the new iPhone and Android apps launching today should be able to compare Best Buy’s prices with…

[This is a corrected version of an earlier item] In advance of fall TV season’s kick off next week, The ABC (NYSE: DIS) Television Group and The Nielsen Company have developed an iPad app for one of the network’s new primetime dramas in hopes of seeing how much of a…

Best Buy is working on building out its in-store digital reading section this fall with the addition of the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle. The retailer has already been selling Barnes & Noble’s Nook and the various Sony (NYSE: SNE) Readers. By putting the Kindle on its shelves, Best Buy is…

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) stepped to the precipice of blackout Armageddon—and wisely took a giant step back. Instead of risking their standing with subscribers and viewers, they put away the harsh rhetoric, kept working through the midnight deadline Wednesday and made a…