Fans of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer say she shouldn't be blamed for the company's history of failed acquisitions -- but there are plenty of other reasons to be skeptical about Yahoo's $1.1-billion Tumblr deal....

The Internet Archive recently launched an ambitious project to collect and index all broadcasts since the start of television. This week it got a major boost.

The platform could give publishers a new tool in their quest to monetize online content. Not only does it let mobile websites issue push notifications, but it also introduces new real estate for ads.

The six finalists of the Publishing Hackathon held over the weekend in New York focus on discovering books in new ways -- whether it's by browsing book jackets or getting recommendations based on your ...

Knewton, a New York-based adaptive learning startup, has partnered with education publisher Macmillan.

Many publishers treat obnoxious comments as a problem to be solved -- Above the Law takes the opposite approach, and embraces readers as they are.

More news from Yahoo on Monday: The company is revamping photo-sharing service Flickr and is also opening a New York City office. Tumblr's employees, however, will remain at their current office.

More news from Yahoo on Monday: The company is revamping photo-sharing service Flickr and is also opening a New York office.

There are plenty of reasons why the announced Yahoo Tumblr deal makes sense for those companies. But Marissa Mayer might have seen a much greater payoff from acquiring Pinterest instead. Here's why.

In an investor call Monday morning, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said Yahoo and Tumblr's audiences really don't overlap. She said that's fine: Yahoo users will be exposed to more Tumblr content, and Tumblr ...

In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company's role in media disruption.

Yahoo has officially acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the companies announced Monday morning. Tumblr will be operated as a separate business, with David Karp remaining CEO.

Yahoo has officially acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the companies announced Monday morning.

Yahoo's board has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, according to reports.

The upcoming Rev3 series Distort offers not only rich, compelling footage shot at high frame rates, but the on-camera presence of former Rev3 employees, who've struck an unusual deal for distribution.

Recent events, tragic and triumphant, emphasize the social web's role as a central source for disseminating breaking news. But getting the facts right continues to be a challenge, and a solution requires ...

Fans of the social-blogging network might not like the idea much, but a $1-billion acquisition of Tumblr would arguably solve a number of problems for Yahoo -- and do the same for Tumblr CEO David Karp....

Tumblr might become part of Yahoo as early as Sunday night, according to a report that suggests Yahoo's board of directors is set to consider a $1.1 billion offer for the startup.

Gawker has just taken checkbook journalism to a whole new level -- asking the public to help buy a video tape that is likely to bring down the mayor of a major city.

When soap operas "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" moved online, it wasn't clear how fans would watch them. It turns out that most viewers are binge-watching -- so the soaps' ...

Looking for a book suggestion? Culling information from your Twitter feed and turning that into accurate recommendations is harder than it looks, but Parakweet is looking to use natural language procesing ...

Book publishers discussed digital-first and digital-only initiatives at the Making Information Pay conference this week.

Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr. We hear Facebook might spoil the party. But the question is: is Tumblr the fountain of youth that Yahoo badly needs or will this be case of a pathetic old-middle aged guy hanging ...

Google launched its own music subscription service Wednesday. Currently, it's not very different from all the other services out there. So how does it want to compete?

Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia's Emily Bell said ...

Google CEO Larry Page, who has been suffering from vocal cord issues, showed up at the end of the Google I/O keynote and spent some time talking about his vision of technology and took questions from the ...

Neal Edelstein, producer of hit movies like The Ring and Mulholland Drive , has a new film project: A film delivered in chunks directly through an iOS app.

Looking for a job in digital media? Each week we highlight some of the most interesting positions posted to paidContent’s jobs board. Check out the latest gigs at media companies across the country.

Apple's exposure in a closely-watched price-fixing case over ebooks looks more serious as the CEOs of major publishers -- which have already settled with the government -- will testify about Apple's role ...

Content providers will soon pay mobile carriers to exempt their traffic from consumers' mobile data plans, says AT&T's Randall Stephenson. That may seem like a good deal for consumers but in the long-term ...

The New Yorker has launched Strongbox, an open-source software system that allows users to submit confidential documents to the magazine anonymously. Strongbox was built by Aaron Swartz before his death....

Tech Cocktail, a company that covers startup-related news and organizes events, has received $2.5 million from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project, which aims to revitalize downtown Las Vegas.

Our live coverage from Google I/O 2013, Google's most significant public event of the year, can be found right here.

The U.S. consumer book publishing industry had a strong 2012, fueled in part by the growth of ebooks.

Google is set to launch a music subscription service at its Google I/O developer conference Wednesday, according to multiple reports. The service will compete with Spotify and similar services.

Here you'll find all our coverage of Google I/O 2013, Google's annual showcase of its technology prowess.

A public campaign by some of the biggest German online publishers against ad-blocking software may have backfired, as downloads of one popular ad-blocking product have more than doubled.

NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen says that many of the cultural barriers to doing "networked journalism" have been lowered, and he is trying to help media outlets develop smart tools and ways ...

In an interesting public-private partnership, children's reading app Ruckus is teaming up with Connecticut Public Television to offer a CPTV-branded kids' iOS app.

In an interesting public-private partnership, children's reading app Ruckus is teaming up with Connecticut Public Television to offer a CPTV-branded kids' iOS app.

Aereo announced Tuesday that it will launch in Atlanta in June. It's already available in the New York City area, and will launch in Boston on Wednesday. The company also simplified its pricing plans, ...

Figuring out which titles are going expire soon on Netflix just got a lot harder: The company changed its public API Monday night to prevent this information from popping up on third-party websites.

The Associated Press is raising the alarm over news that the Justice Department secretly seized records for more than 20 phone lines tied to its reporters and bureaus.

If you're looking for the latest video clips from your favorite sports, you might soon find them on Twitter. The social media company has solidified a deal with ESPN that will let users check out the action ...

As more sites focus on longform content, Fast Company disclosed some statistics on how its longer pieces have been doing -- but the data shows that the real secret isn't length but ongoing engagement with ...

Jane Austen scholars know "Sanditon" as a posthumously-published unfinished novel, but for Lizzie Bennet Diaries fans, it's the springboard for a new bridge series that promises unprecedented ...

Amazon has acquired Samsung's color screen display technology, Liquavista. The technology could be used to create low-power color screens for Kindles.

Research from McKinsey seems to suggest that print-based media still commands a large proportion of time spent by consumers of news -- but that is just part of the larger picture media companies have to ...