In a victo for Big Pharma, a ryfederal court has rejected new rules issued by the USPTO that aimed to reduce the patent filing backlog by imposing limits on claims and…

Denise Barker, a defendant in a case filed by a group of record labels, headlined by the Elektra imprint of Warner Music, and first brought to a judge a number of years ago, got…

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke became the last human in America to acknowledge the possibility of a recession this morning, when he reduced the Fed's economic outlook yet again and…

We're still waiting to hear when Google (GOOG) axes some of its newly acquired DoubleClick employees, and how many it will axe. But we do know layoffs are coming. For those who do…

Social applications maker Loomia raised a $5 million series A round led by VC firm Asset Management Company and joined by strategic investors NBC Peacock Ventures and Telefonica.…

Attributor, who helps media companies protect their content, has raised $12 million in Series C funding. The company uses what it describes as “fingerprinting algorithms” to…

User generated content is still finding its place amongst the media heavens. Sometimes traditional media turns its nose at it, and other times realizes that fully embracing UGC…

Amazon has launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon customers to purchase items via mobile phone text message. To use the service, customers text the name of a…

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has gone some way to avoiding the kind of embarrassing new media reporting restrictions imposed by some sporting events over the last…

The Society of Authors, the UK Association representing professional book authors, has called chicken little on the book industry by suggesting that internet piracy will cause…

New service TagCow caused a bit of a stir over the weekend. The product seemingly solves the problem of auto-categorization and tagging of photos, something that seems to still be…

In an ever increasing run of posts in which the title poses seemingly innocuous questions about the liberal blog Huffington Post, today the topic of the actual value for the…

In a twist for us, we'll be hosting the leadership from across MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) for a deep dive exploration of their social media efforts at our EconSM conference on April…

With the Beijing Olympics roughly four months away, Kevan Gosper, vice chairman of the IOC coordinating commission, is warning organizers that the internet must be open during the…

Social content application generator Bricabox demo'ed their app tonight at the April NY Tech gathering. We've covered Bricabox a number of times before. The idea is to provide a…