It turns out all those ads cluttering up your Facebook news feed are working just fine for the social media giant.

As the company reported its latest quarterly earnings, what stuck out the most was its success selling mobile ads, those seen by people using Facebook on tablets...

Google just made getting the Internet on your TV much easier and much cheaper.

Google on Wednesday announced Chromecast, a $35 HDMI stick that streams web video to an HDTV. Chromecast will stream TV shows, movies and music, and anything in a Chrome browser, to your TV. It...

Much of the attention paid to products that Apple may be developing has focused on the so-called iWatch, an Apple-designed television and, of course, the new iPhone.

But in an earnings call on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook emphasized just how crucial it is for Apple...

Ted Sarandos, the Netflix chief content officer, is inching closer to his stated goal of becoming "HBO faster than HBO can become us."

On Monday, the company said it plans to produce original documentaries and stand-up comedy specials, taking another page from HBO's book.

"Beyond series,...

Netflix found money in the Banana Stand.

The company said in a letter to shareholders on Monday that it added 630,000 members in its second quarter ending in July, and attributed the increase to the fourth season of "Arrested Development."

"The show already had a strong brand and...

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to This Week In Apple Rumors, our regular look at unconfirmed gossip and questionably sourced reports radiating from Cupertino. This week we heard rumors about Apple's long-awaited, yet-unnamed television, the iWatch, and, of course, possible details on the next version of the iPhone.

So...

Google CFO Patrick Pichette wasn't messing around on Thursday when he said that we'd see the Moto X -- the highly anticipated smartphone from Google-owned Motorola -- within "weeks."

Motorola on Friday afternoon sent out press invitations to a Moto X event in Manhattan on Thursday, Aug. 1,...

The wait for the Moto X may soon be over.

In an earnings call on Thursday, Patrick Pichette, Google's senior vice president and chief financial officer, dropped a hint that the highly anticipated smartphone from Google-owned Motorola is weeks away.

"I'll leave it to the coming quarters to...

Netflix made internet history on Thursday, nabbing 14 Emmy nominations, including outstanding drama series for its political thriller "House of Cards."

It was a major milestone for web content as it was the first time that an original series created for the web, rather than broadcast...

In the last week, both T-Mobile and AT&T; have unveiled new plans that allow customers to upgrade their phones more frequently. While the plans may seem enticing at first -- especially to those people who want to have the latest and greatest smartphone -- when you...

Eight weeks after sealing the deal to buy Tumblr, the image-heavy blogging platform popular with young people, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said on Tuesday that growth continues apace.

"When we look at the amount of content that's being generated, it's staggering," Mayer said during a webcast earnings...

That was fast.

Less than a week after T-Mobile announced its new plan allowing customers to upgrade their devices up to twice a year -- and just as AT&T; announced its plan for more frequent upgrades -- it appears that Verizon is planning to follow suit.

I find flying relaxing.

Yes, you read that right. Despite the frequent delays, the dirty airports, the intrusive TSA frisking, the cramped seats and the crying babies, I find flying relaxing.

That is, if the airplane isn't equipped with Wi-Fi.

Airplanes without an Internet connection are a refuge...

What happened to online music may be about to happen to the entire Internet.

Two of the entrepreneurs who founded Last.fm, a popular Internet radio site that recommends songs and artists, have unveiled a new project: a Web discovery application called Lumi that sifts through a person's...

It took 33 years, but it's finally been done.

AeroVelo, a Canadian team, has won the Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition, successfully using muscle power to fly a helicopter for at least 60 seconds and reach an altitude of over 10 feet -- all while remaining in a 32-by-32-foot area....

Now it's Netflix's turn.

The company announced an expanded deal with PBS on Wednesday that will make it the exclusive subscription streaming service for all seasons of "The Bletchley Circle," a U.K. drama, as well as "Super Why," a computer-animated series for preschoolers.

"The Bletchley Circle," a murder...

In the last two months, Google has done it. Apple followed several weeks later. And on Monday, Microsoft joined the two tech giants -- and many smaller players -- in bringing a streaming music service to the Web.

Microsoft announced that Xbox Music is...

It's a pair of lightweight glasses with a high-definition camera that connects to the Internet. A screen over the right lens serves up text messages and real-time data, and the person wearing the device controls its functions by swiping and tapping the right side of the frame.

But it's...

Pandora has a message for Pink Floyd: We respect your music, but you're wrong.

The Internet radio giant responded Wednesday to Pink Floyd's scathing editorial in USA Today, where the band accused Pandora of "pushing the growth of its business directly at the expense of artists' paychecks" and...

Now that's low.

Cracker's 1993 hit "Low" had over 1.1 million plays on Pandora in the final three months of 2012, but David Lowery -- the co-founder of the rock band and one of the composers of the song -- was paid only $16.89 for the songwriter royalty.

Lowery...