YouTube Finalizes Plans to End Targeted Ads For Children - ETCentric. YouTube has agreed to stop targeted ads that appear during videos that children are likely to watch, said sources. The Federal Trade Commission, …

Reddit experiments with livesteaming. Users can post livestreams from 9am to 5pm PT, through Friday.

Over the weekend, rumors and speculation began circulating on Reddit. Users were wondering what cryptic messages on r/pan, a new Reddit community, could mean. Today, Reddit pulled back the curtain. It announced Reddit Public Access …

Amazon's cloud-computing empire faces a new threat: Edge-computing. Three companies -- Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. -- quietly dominate the world of cloud computing.

With more more than 100 giant …

Podcast: Where Does OTT TV Go Now? | Light Reading. What's going on with over-the-top TV (and why are all the names so confusing)? Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner, Alan Breznick and Kelsey Ziser join …

Where did all the cloud computing thought leaders go? I'm not citing studies that demonstrate a diminished number of thought leaders in the cloud computing space--this is only my impression. However, if …

Just putting it out there: I still buy MP3s. In this column, "Just putting this out there…," we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it.

One of my biggest sources of inner turmoil is how I consume music: I still buy MP3s. This is often met with shock, horror, or hushed murmurings of "good for …

After Missing Cord Cutting Trend, Nielsen Falls Apart. For years, we've noted how popular TV ratings firm Nielsen has turned a bit of a blind eye to cord cutting and the Internet video revolution, on one …

The Netflix Lobbying Machine: Inside the Effort to Sway Policy Worldwide. Rather than align itself with the tech giants under increasing Washington pressure, the streamer has joined forces with the studios and redirected …

Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV. For all the focus on locking down laptops and smartphones, the biggest screen in millions of living rooms remains largely unsecured, even after years …

Britons break £100m-a-week digital streaming milestone. The streaming revolution has notched up another milestone with UK consumers spending more than £100m a week on digital entertainment services such as Netflix, Amazon, Spotify and Apple Music in the first half of the year for the first time.

UK consumers spent a total of £3.3bn on entertainment …