Twitch nixes Communities, adds tags to improve content discovery

Video game streaming service Twitch launched Communities in February of last year. These were ostensibly hub page for specific games or topics that members could create to help people find content. Now the company will shut these pages down mid-Septe...

Mobile Ads Try To Be More Useful, Less Annoying And Creepy


Advertising has become an increasingly important revenue source for the multi-billion-dollar app economy, as consumers become less inclined to pay for the mobile apps they download. That’s left...

Jillian Michaels Streamlines Fitness Routine


Jillian Michaels has helped obese people shed tons of fat on “The Biggest Loser”. Her “tough as nails” approach to fat loss is the best way to get rid of those pesky pounds. Jillian recently came up...

Jillian Michaels Streamlines Fitness Routine


Jillian Michaels has helped obese people shed tons of fat on “The Biggest Loser”. Her “tough as nails” approach to fat loss is the best way to get rid of those pesky pounds. Jillian recently came up...

Beats Vs. Spotify: Let The Streaming Wars Begin


Beats Music is being launched today to much fanfare and rightfully so. Using “music curation” as its main calling card, it’s a different take on a theme used by other competitive services. Whether...

Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo for $53 Billion?


The last time Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo — valuing it at $45 billion, Steve Ballmer hoped that some value could be created by combining their media assets. As he said back then, “We have great...

Court Prods FCC In Unexpected Direction In Last Week’s Verizon Ruling


By Andy Oram A court ruling this past Tuesday on FCC “network neutrality” regulation closes and opens a few paths in a three-way chess game that has been going on for years between the US District...

The Reason Personality Tests Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind


Please tell me the web personality quiz is NOT making a comeback. Maybe the popularity of these quizzes never even declined. After rolling my eyes many many times this week, I eventually caved in. I...

Study: Heavy Drinking Is Toxic To The Brains Of Men, But Not Those Of Women


One of the largest studies ever conducted on the long-term effects of alcohol consumption suggests that heavy drinking is linked to significant cognitive decline in middle-aged men. The brains of...
    






The Billion Dollar Market Microsoft And Sony Are Ignoring


The console video game market remains huge. Last September, Grand Theft Auto 5 generated over $1 billion in revenue in its first few days, a feat even the wizards of Hogwart’s and Middle Earth never...