Mike Fossum

Hulu recently presented four new original series it’s producing to advertisers, to further accomodate the general shift in home viewing habits, as more and more customers are watching streaming content – but now the company is moving toward a new …

The Google Australia blog has announced that thousands of new Australian movies are now available for rental on Google Play and YouTube. Australia has fostered a rich cinematic history, producing films like Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II. Also, some …

Google’s Official Blog reports that Google for Entrepreneurs headed down to Nashville, TN on April 19th to present a whole day of workshops concerning Google+ tips, how to promote content with YouTube, and how to utilize AdWords and Google analytics …

Viddy, a sort of Instagram for video, has just revealed that it’s going for $30 million in venture capitol during its series B funding, with a valuation of $370 million – while likely banking on its 10 million users. This …

Panasonic Japan has just announced that it’s developing a new “Super Hi-Vision” (as it’s called in that country) plasma screen that supports 8K resolution at 120 frames per second. The joint project with NHK Science and Research Laboratories will push …

Nielsen has just submitted the second part of its State of the Media: Advertising & Audiences Report, which sheds light on DVR usage, as well as viewership of streaming content platforms like Hulu, YouTube and Netflix, who appears to making …

For the first time in five years of litigation, the Federal Trade Commission has hired outside legal counsel to head up its antitrust investigation against Google, which denotes the seriousness of its inquiry. The FTC has long been looking into …

Even though Apple sales in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan skyrocketed by 300% to $7.9 billion in Q1, a trajectory which would double last year’s total sales of $13.3 billion, some analysts think that this expansion will soon begin …

Studies have shown that mobile devices are influencing points of purchase for consumers more and more, while shopping online or in-store. During the 2011 holiday shopping season, 41% of consumers made purchases directly on their smartphones, 46% noted that they …

In order to help users build better, more focused advertising campaigns, Google AdWords has updated its Keyword Tool and Traffic Estimator capacities. Both functionalities assist users in gauging how certain keywords or ad groups might perform, to more effectively put …

Socialcam, a social video app for iPhone and Android that has been spreading like wildfire, has added a new feature, in attempts to keep hold of it’s 4 million new users garnered over the past weekend. Justin Kan, the co-founder …

Adobe’s electronic signature and enterprise content management system EchoSign has today released an update to its integration with global enterprise software platform Salesforce, entitled Adobe EchoSign for Salesforce version 12. Adobe acquired EchoSign last July, in a bid to add …

With Microsoft recently reiterating security protocols concerning the infamous Conficker worm, online security firm Kaspersky Lab has just suggested that Apple OS is ten years behind Windows regarding the handling of internet threats. With Mac OS becoming more popular, Mac-based …

Despite of Pinterest’s meteoric launch and rise to popularity, recents reports have shown that the photo-sharing pinboard site might be losing steam – and users. Still, fluctuations in user base are likely just signs of growth, and Pinterest has been …

Today AmazonLocal unveiled Deal Preferences, a way for users to customize their shopping experience, and facilitate a more targeted offering of various deals they receive. AmazonLocal is a daily deals platform similar to Groupon, which offers users up to 75% …

It would appear that German courts have little rational tolerance for various sorts of internet idiocy as of late, recently ruling that Youtube is responsible for its users when they upload copyrighted songs – and now a German Federal court …

Image and video hosting site Flikr, currently home to over 7 billion photos, has just updated its uploader interface, aptly called Uploadr. The changes come of the heels of Flickr’s partnership with social networking portal Meetup.com, to better connect its …

Streaming video platform Hulu has just announced the inclusion of 4 new shows to its lineup of original content, and now the company has unveiled its new Gay and Lesbian genre category. Hulu presently offers GLAAD-recognized, award-winning titles like Paris …

With mobile internet usage skyrocketing, Google’s Mobile Ads Blog just

Ferrari President and Chairman Luca di Montezemolo was in the San Francisco bay area over the weekend to give a speech at Stanford, and met up with Apple CEO Tim Cook and “heads of Google” for some exclusive face time. …

Apple’s iCloud service has recently achieved 125 million users, up roughly 25 million subscribers since February. These numbers stand upon the launch of Google’s own Drive cloud service yesterday, and it will be interesting to see how the new platform …

The latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) has complied new data taken from over 600 million systems worldwide, and has found that iterations of the Conficker worm have appeared on roughly 220 million computers over the past 2.5 years. This …

In its Q1 2012 earnings report, Netflix logged $870 million in revenue for the fiscal year, with a loss of only 8 cents per share, which exceeded analyst expectations – and this performance is primarily due to a rise in …

Sprint has been losing money with the impending shutdown of its Nextel network. Customers had been leaving the “push to talk” walkie-talkie-like service in waves, and Sprint is pulling the plug at the end of the year. Though, investors have …