The owners of the major broadcast networks Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC won a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com Plc, a company that streams the signals of TV stations over the Web without permission of the networks. Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...

Jimmie Johnson is now firmly the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. Jimmie Johnson claimed his record fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship after a second- place finish at Nascar’s season-ending race. "Yeah, unbelievable, you guys are the best," Johnson said to his pit crew over the team radio after he...

Casino operator Harrah's Entertainment Inc, the world's largest casino operator by revenue, has not priced its initial public offering despite indicating earlier that it would begin selling shares on the Nasdaq market this week. Harrah's, which is majority-owned by private equity investors, previously said it would sell shares to raise...

Apple Inc., the Beatles' Apple Corps and EMI/Capitol Records agreed to make the Beatles' catalog, spanning 1962-1970, available for legal digital download, through its iTunes store. More than 200 songs plus the band's original albums and other compilations listed on iTunes. Songs are priced at $1.29, single albums at $12.99...

Google have announced on its blog their new location based recommendation engine called Google HotPot. Google Hotpot is a local recommendations engine powered by you and your friends. You start by looking for a certain place category in your area - or any other area you’re interested in. Results are...

Sina Corp (SINA), a leading Chinese online media services provider, launched $301 million fund for developers to create applications for its highly popular Twitter-like microblog, Weibo (pronounced ‘way-bore’). Sina is one of the few micro-blogging services still around in China after the government banned Twitter and other competitors for refusing...

IAC/InterActiveCorp owns the news and commentary site The Daily Beast, agreed this week to enter into a 50-50 venture that would pair it with Newsweek.  Tina Brown will retain her title and also become editor in chief of Newsweek. According to The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast Web site...

Google Refine is a open source tool for working with datasets, including but not limited to Freebase. According to David Huynh, Google Search Infrastructure, it can be used for: "cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or...

Leading cloud application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Heroku has launched a Facebook App Package and guide for building Facebook applications on Heroku's PaaS. If you're in the market for building Facebook apps, Heroku a new Facebook App Package may be worth checking out. Facebook is the most popular social platform for...