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As more and more content goes digital, people expect TV shows and movies to stream to their TVs, computers, tablets and smart phones. We want to pay for our entertainment once and then watch it anywhere, on any device.

Every TV manufacturer agrees, the remote control will change more in the next three years than it has the previous six decades. But how will it actually change? Sony, Samsung, LG, and Vizio tell us

.caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Photo by Benjamin Lowy There are two economies at work in the United States right now. One is traditional, entrenched, powerful, and often highly profitable

One junior high schooler and his mobile game totally changed the fate of this app development platform. The circumstances may differ, but for successful startups there’s always a tipping point

Several start-ups are cashing in on the trend of mothers handing their tablets to kids by making it safer and easier. Parents are increasingly handing Web-connected tablets to their kids. Flowing with that trend, several companies are working to create online havens for children and to make money while doing so

We all have busy lives, and catching all the good shows on TV is one of the things that gets missed in the daily grind. Here's how you can get your television fix, and in ways that are convenient for anyone

In Silicon Valley, some dare to ask: Why hire a PhD, when a self-taught kid is just as good? Adam Passey, 28 Medford, Oregon Former VP of information and technology at a marketing agency HIRED BY IGN "I had one job for 10 years, and a lot of the systems I worked on were proprietary, so I couldn't show them as examples of my work

Billionaire Ted Leonsis shares lessons he learned in living a life and building a business with no regrets. Ted Leonsis has just about done it all.

U.K.-based dairy brand Yeo Valley follows up its popular "Rap" video by introducing a smooth new track from boy band, The Churned. It’s the goal of most ad makers today to create brand content that's at least as watchable as the entertainment it supports. It doesn't happen often, needless to say, but U.K.

John Sculley has had a diverse career by any measure--he has served as president of PepsiCo, CEO of Apple (where he famously championed the tablet computer in the 1980s), and more recently, chairman of Watermark Medical, a medical products company that has developed an in-home sleep apnea diagnostic device). Sculley is also working with Audax Health Solutions , a startup that has developed a personal health management platform with a gamification layer that allows users to compete with friends and collect points and badges. We caught up with Sculley at this year's Body Computing Conference --an event that brings together doctors, designers, programmers, entrepreneurs, journalists, and members of the entertainment industry to preview the future of high-tech health care--to learn more about his thoughts on the future of health care technology

High-profile entrepreneurs John Vechey and Ted Leonsis get real about what happens after your company is successful. The second half of the morning at Inc. 500|5000 conference, which featured hugely successful PopCap founder John Vechey and serial entrepreneur Ted Leonsis , took a different tone from the energetic coffee-fueled morning sessions

Wieden bakes major brands and the Portland tech community into a fresh PIE. When Wieden + Kennedy launched its tech incubator, the Portland Incubator Experiment in 2009, the effort proved a fruitful collaboration between the ad agency and local tech talent; it even spawned a few going tech concerns

An exclusive page from the DC Comics reboot of Action Comics shows a more human Superman as envisioned by veteran auteur Grant Morrison. It's the most iconic title in the DC Comics canon. When the original Action Comics #1 debuted in 1938, it featured the first appearance of Superman and is regarded as the first superhero comic

Leave it to a psychologist at the University of Essex to discover that the secret sauce in irresistible video games is the characters' personalities--especially those that leave just enough creative space for players to pour themselves into.

Disney Research has come up with a new technology so