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A big part of being a sports fan is keeping score. And now there is a great way to keep up with scores and stats for every basketball and f...

A San Diego-based fantasy sports startup is seeking to shake up the industry with a potential $5 million top prize and a game model veering...

Simon, 26, directs WhoDey Revolution, a group that began as an online blog nine months ago and has since grown into a guerrilla marketing o...

Duke University plans to formally launch a Web site this week dedicated to men’s basketball that represents yet another unique way schools ...

Nevermind iTunes, EMI Music is going direct to fans with the surprise launch of a new EMI.com site featuring playlists, recommendations and...

A Silicon Valley company will soon give television networks and movie studios a compelling new marketing tool: the opportunity to insert vid...

Taxi applications on the App Store are a dime a dozen, but for the most part they’re just glorified phone directories that don’t really mak...

With its decision to end its relationship with the Macworld Expo, Apple is cutting one of its last ties to an era in which it wasn't a t...

Whoopi Goldberg is set to star and exec produce the sci-fi miniseries “Stream” for Fearnet.com. Set to debut online and on video-on-demand ...

ESPN.COM is counting on less clutter and more advertising options to bolster revenue at a time when its sister cable channels are battling r...

Today, the NFL launched a new video on-demand service called Game Rewind that lets you watch every NFL game in HD quality, with no commerci...

Following in the footsteps of John Madden and Tiger Woods, Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps wants to start his own video game empire. B...

Twitter cofounder Biz Stone announced this morning that the micro-blogging service would integrate Google's Friend Connect service. Tha...

Called Muxlim Pal, it allows Muslims to look after a cartoon avatar that inhabits the virtual world. Based loosely on other virtual worlds ...

Hasbro has dropped its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of board game Scrabble. According to documents filed in U.S. ...

Less altruistically, some businesses have discovered that Twitter is an effective way of communicating with consumers. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) ...

CBS Interactive is relaunching TV.com, hoping to transform the well-named site known for its TV-related community and user-generated conten...

Popular user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia has finally released a mobile-friendly version of the web site at mobile.wikipedia.org. T...

Nearly half of the women questioned by Harris Interactive said they'd be willing to forgo sex for two weeks, rather than give up their I...

Just because Clark Kellogg's predecessor, Billy Packer, won't be calling games for CBS this year doesn't mean he won't rema...

For years, the number of less-than-marquee sports events appearing in webcasts has been huge. But 2008 has been a turning point for simulca...

IMG's Digital Media Unit next week will cease operation as a separate entity and will be realigned into other IMG business units, a mov...

As the New York Times Co. is negotiating with lenders over its debt, speculation has been floating around the blogosphere, pushing the prem...

The recession isn’t slowing down National Lampoon’s acquisition binge: the humor site is getting into e-commerce with the purchase of Jerka...

The release of Blackbird, an African American focused web browser sparked quite a bit of controversy this past week. The TechCrunch post ab...

Google vice president Marissa Mayer announced Google Chrome is coming out of beta in an interview with Michael Arrington at Le Web 08. The ...

First, NYTimes.com launched an "alternative" home page, Times Extra. Then it introduced a new celebrity-driven ad campaign. Conti...

A series of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages - known as an emoticon - has been trademarked in Russia, says a local b...

Who would've thought that the Twitter scourge would actually make its way to the unborn in the form of Kickbee? This strapped-on set of...

Watching the myriad skills of Dirk Nowitski aside, fans now have an incentive to follow the Dallas Mavericks on Fox Sports Southwest. The r...

World Sports Network, a network of football sites out of China, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Valhalla Investments. Th...

AOL Sports has partnered with sports memorabilia retailer Dreams Inc. to launch FanHouse Fan Shop, an e-commerce hub centered around sports...

Kongzhong.com, a long-established value-added telecom service provider in China, lately launched the Dreaming NBA, a mobile phone-oriented W...

Turner which has surprisingly been scaling back some of its original online efforts, has now sold off its online sports site services provi...

Facebook is quickly closing the gap in U.S. usage v. MySpace. Facebook became the largest worldwide social network last April, when they ov...

A new digital music service is getting lots of attention for proposing to help consumers sell their used MP3s in much the same way people o...

Belly flopping, Val Klimer and the world's largest potato are just a few items posted at Becks.com today. This is all part of "The...

Gmail has introduced a new feature allowing users to send free SMS messages through its integrated Chat. To activate the feature, visit the...

Kindling, the first web product from New York-based design and tech firm Arc90, is looking to help business share ideas more effectively. T...

You realize of course that this was inevitable: A Canoga Park, Calif., adult studio has made an "exclusive performance offer" to ...

Jordan Towers, one of the enterprising gents at World Star Hip-Hop, has hooked up with Rockets forward Ron Artest to create some sort of...

ESPN Deportes has launched ESPN Deportes Replay, a multimedia campaign that allow fans to make programming choices at the net. Online votin...

A Boston area developer of search engine technology is now making millions of sports video clips available daily through a partnership with...

Standing before an overflow crowd of the crème de la crème of the advertising world in Cannes this summer, Nike global director of digital m...

The new company LiveKick can be best described as the Kayak of music concert ticketing. The service helps users discover live concerts in t...

So what do Bebo users get for the $850 million AOL (NYSE: TWX) shelled out for the social site? Easier Yahoo Mail access, for one. Bebo is ...

Digital video recorder (DVR) supplier TiVo is offering advertisers a new way to reach TiVo subscribers, who are prone to fast-forwarding th...

Having finally settled with book publishers about scanning and indexing hundreds of thousands of books, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has set its sig...

Sony will launch its much-anticipated virtual world, Home, for the PlayStation 3 on Dec. 11. The service will still be in beta testing but ...

A fast-charging laptop battery that promises to last at least three years without any degradation in performance is coming to the market as...

Virtual gifts are fun, but for the most part they’re a novelty - not something I’d ever actually give to a good friend in honor of a birthd...

Reebok is mounting a watch-and-win promotion during NBC’s telecast of the NHL’s Winter Classic on New Year’s Day, when the Stanley Cup cham...

CentPoker.com started in response to a recent law Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act which made it illegal to use any online bettin...

The company will be announcing the launch of MySpace Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. For now only Windows users will be able to ...

Finally, online exists for the Pulitzer Prizes: the venerated journalism award, has added online-only outlets as “accepted” organizations th...

The 21st Century Tech President said Saturday morning that the U.S. will launch new investments in its infrastructure - including a boost o...