This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them looking to capitalize more on their already-hefty user bases by creating services that keep them on their sites for longer.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) missed analyst expectations for earnings per share during the fourth quarter, sending its stock plunging in after-hours trading Thursday. The company had been expected to produce earnings per share of $10.49, but it chalked up just $9.50 in earnings per share excluding special items and also missed…

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YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) didn’t do a whole lot with a precious hour of airtime at CES 2012 on Thursday, reminding us all that video delivered over the web is poised to get even bigger than it already is yet offering very little about why YouTube is the place where Web…

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France…

Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million consumers using services like these today, there is clearly an opportunity for another player to emerge to try to pick up more. Enter a new…

Nielsen is getting ready later this week to release is quarterly State of the Media report, which this time around will focus on mobile media, but in the meantime, it’s put out one of its regular data sifts, this time looking at app usage on the Android platform across different…

Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) does not expect Google TV users to cancel their cable, claimed Google VP product development Mario Queiroz in a conversation with paidContent’s Staci D. Kramer.

YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is launching a new politics site today that it hopes will offer a “holistic” view of the candidates on the campaign trial, and also, via its metrics, provide a snapshot of their popularity among voters. But at the first glance, YouTube Politics seems to be falling well…

At Google’s Zeitgeist Americas conference, Larry Page spent a good amount of time on stage—maybe one of the longest appearances he has made since taking over as the CEO of the company earlier this year. But when it came to the Q&A, he invited former CEO (and still-chairman) Eric Schmidt,…

At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering with a popular game developer on the successful Angry Birds Rio. Now Stalbow has shifted from SVP-Mobile for *Fox* Digital to working with Vesterbacka directly as the…

When the multinational operator France Telecom/Orange announced that it was taking an $80-million, 49-percent stake in the online video site Dailymotion earlier this year, it was obvious there were a lot of ways that relationship could be used on both sides. The question was whether a big, incumbent telco could…

Looks like Rovio is not the only mobile content company that wants to catapult itself into being the next Disney of the entertainment world. Outfit7, makers of the popular Talking Friends series of apps, has signed a deal with William Morris Endeavor for the talent agency to help put its…

We all know how significant mobile has become as a channel for online businesses that are not inherently mobile properties—we see that trend getting played out every day. Investment bank Rutberg & Co. has passed on to us a chart that pulls together some of the more striking examples of…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: HP (NYSE: HPQ) finally gives the release date for its TouchPad tablet; Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) goes after rival app stores; YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) says it’s working on managing its mobile traffic; Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is launching…

Every major tech company in Silicon Valley takes at least one turn at San Francisco’s Moscone Center each year to show off their latest ideas and reinforce their standing among the community. This week, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gets a shot, likely to highlight versions of its Android software for phones,…

The wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton was a boon to YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), which says the event was live streamed 72 million times on its site. Include re-broadcasts and total streams of the spectacular came in at a staggering 101 million.

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,…

If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in person, you will have seen the crowds that assembled down the Mall, around Westminster Cathedral, in front of Buckingham Palace, and in many other places. But…