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Google having trouble landing the big fish for GoogleTV?

A report tonight says that Google hasn't convinced any of the bigger network executives to sign up for their new service, set to debut in the coming months.

One of the three areas which Google (GOOG) sees significant expansion over the next few years is in the $70 billion/year U.S.  television advertising market.  With its GoogleTV product, it now has the platform to sell content against advertising.  But can it get top MORE

Five ways the big networks are monetizing online video

From a lá carte to all-you-can-eat, Internet video programming has many pricing options -- none of which are 'free'

By John Patrick Pullen, contributor

I'm blacked out. Again. Earlier this spring, I subscribed to MLB.TV, Major League Baseball's online video service, and was told I'd have access to every regular season game live or on demand, where available, on the device of my choice. For $119 that seemed like a fair deal, MORE

How gaming became the future of social media

Gaming is already wildly popular. A recent spate of deals with Google, Disney, and Gamestop, suggest that social games have the promise to be wildly profitable, too.

by Patricia Sellers and JP Mangalindan FarmVille. Mafia Wars. Pet Society. With their collective userbases numbering in the hundreds of millions, social gaming is as ubiquitous and mainstream as primetime TV programming.

But for years that wasn't the case -- skeptics disregarded social games, MORE

Steve Jobs' mark on ABC's Lost

How the Apple CEO may have changed the course of the hit ABC show with one comment back in 2005.

by Patricia Sellers, editor-at-large

Steve Jobs, as we know, has dramatically changed computers, movies, music, mobile phones, and more. Turns out, the Smartest CEO in Tech -- as Fortune calls the Apple (AAPL) boss in the current issue -- also influenced one of the past decade's most innovative TV shows: Lost.

"He may MORE

VC stunner: Nothing is overhyped

Enterprise, mobile, China, storage and social -- so many places to deploy cash.

Fortune's Michael Copleand opened his venture-capital panel at Fortune Brainstorm Tech Friday afternoon with a fun round-robin question: Name one sector that is overhyped or underhyped.  Shockingly, the six-member panel found nothing whatsoever that is overhyped. Only the opposite. VCs, after all, are congenital optimists.

Jerry Murdock of Insight Ventures, and investor in Twitter, thinks social media is underhyped. MORE

Hulu Plus: Not worth it. Yet.

The video streaming service's new premium model lacks the chops to justify its monthly fees.

As a writer and hopeless Internet addict, I probably spend more time in front of my laptop than I'd like to admit, banging out articles, reading blogs, instant messaging co-workers and friends, and viewing media. Whereas the average American now spends an estimated 34 hours a week in front of the television, it's fair to say MORE

A $109-million weekend for Steve Jobs

But Pixar's record ticket sales are small Mr. Potato Heads for what's coming next

"Utopian in its faith in technological progress, artisanal in its devotion to quality and nearly unbeatable in its marketing savvy."

That's how New York Times' A.O. Scott described Steve Jobs' other company -- Pixar -- in his review of Toy Story 3 last week.

The digital animation house that shares some of Apple's (AAPL) DNA, and which MORE

The Info Highway - 17 years later

Revisiting a 1993 Time Magazine cover story with the benefit of hindsight

I don't know whether to be flattered or embarrassed.

The Producers Guild of America has resurrected a story I wrote for Time Magazine in the spring of 1993 called The Info Highway. The piece, which ran on the cover, made a number of bold predictions about what form the information age might take -- some prescient, some naive, foolish and MORE

Clash of the titans: the cable wars, continued

News Corp. vs Cablevision. Cablevision vs. Disney. The list goes on and on. An updated tally of cable licensing deals gone horribly awry.

As the Cablevision and News Corp. feud continues, more than three million subscribers remain without Fox programming. Cablevision blames News Corp. for demanding an extortionate increase in retransmission fees; News Corp. argues Cablevision isn't negotiating in good faith. Regardless of which party is at fault, the cable MORE

3D plays a practice round at Masters

The Masters golf tournament in Augusta, GA, is one of the hottest tickets in sports. Unless you know someone on the inside, plan on paying thousands for entry onto the hallowed grounds.

Or, you could spend that money on a 3D-ready television and let Augusta National's famous azaleas and manicured fairways come to you. Starting today, 3D coverage of the tournament will be broadcast live on Comcast (CMCSA), which is also MORE