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The new Uber app features an interface its 40 million monthly riders worldwide will recognize, at least for the most part. You can request a ride just like always, but the app uses... More

According to a new report, digital game spending is well over three times that of eBooks, and a lot of that spending is happening on consoles and PC/Mac, where players spend around... More

Big data keeps getting bigger. We create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, according to IBM. As much as 90 per cent of the world’s data has been created in the last two ye... More

Whither goes the Vine refugee? With Twitter’s announcement last week that it’s shutting down the six-second looping video platform, Viners who have amassed audience have to thi... More

On a future that’s split and fragmented between platforms: "There’s a kind of idealist who thinks we have to consolidate all these different platforms into one because they onl... More

The music industry is beginning to embrace virtual reality. Universal Music Group (UMG) is launching a new mobile VR app called VRTGO that will allow 3D/360-degree live-streaming p... More

Facebook’s Instant Articles — the format that displays publishers’ content in a faster-loading, distraction-free view when accessed by Facebook users on mobile devices — ar... More

TiVo released follow-up findings from its 2016 TiVo consumer survey, focusing on the behavior of U.S. millennials and how this coveted demographic interacts with video content, pro... More

Earlier this week, Instagram moved its Snapchat-like Stories to the Explore tab and announced that the feature has about 100 million daily active users. Now that Stories has been o... More

Tucked away inside Pandora’s rebranded app, launched yesterday, the company was hiding its first iMessage app, too. In fact, it’s the first third-party party streaming music se... More

The NFL just announced a new social media policy that is about as anti-fan friendly as it gets. According to league memos obtained by ESPN, the league’s social media policy effec... More

Snapchat wants Hollywood to pitch in programming ideas as it seeks to continue shifting its media offerings from more of a publication concept to act like TV shows. Now part of ... More

The company, which recently rebranded from Snapchat to Snap with the launch of its new Spectacles glasses, is said to be preparing for an IPO with an eye toward making a public deb... More

The growing learning relationship management market got a major new player this week as the University of Texas System announced it will further develop TEx, its homegrown learning... More

Users of the fourth-generation Apple TV can now purchase tickets to thousands of concerts and sporting events available on StubHub, marking the launch of the first ticketing servic... More

Right now, however, our access to voice interfaces for chat is limited. There’s basic dictation through Android and Siri in iOS, but getting anything read aloud to you can be cum... More

Did you hear? Twitter would like you to know that its service is now easier to use, thanks to a series of rule revisions announced in May, which have just gone live. Starting today... More

Instagram is making the bold bet that the millions of celebrities, photographers, famous pets and regular Joes who post photos on the app are clamoring for more video, too. That's ... More

As Pokemon Go mania sweeps the country—with everyone from film studios to small-business owners scrambling to cash in on the frenzy—the cable networks and streaming services wi... More

Nintendo finally allowed a mobile game version of one of its biggest money-makers to be made. And you have been hearing about it a lot over the past 48 hours. Possibly too much. Bu... More