The mobile apps industry is suffering from download-milestone overkill. Developers and publishers boast about how many times their apps have been downloaded on the various app stores, while analysts and the store owners themselves use downloads as a key metric to gauge the success of those stores. While these figures…

Tom Mockridge started his career as a national newspaper journalist working for the chief rival to Rupert Murdoch’s interests in Australia.

Forget iPads and smartphone apps - in India, the real “new media” are basic feature phones. Media companies aren’t letting the market’s relative technological immaturity stand in their way - they’re embracing new opportunities using old media

Disney (NYSE: DIS) has changed the locks on Keychest, the digital-rights-locker strategy that began drawing attention a year ago as a potential rival to the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE. Bob Chapek, president of distribution at Walt Disney Studios, confirmed in an interview Friday with paidContent that Keychest has…

Coinstar confirmed its intent to transition Redbox into online streaming next year but is still in negotiations to find the right partner, the company said in its third-quarter earnings call Thursday. But the king of kiosks really should get cracking given the way Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and others are gaining…

The Boxee Box will go to market next month with Vudu, the digital movie service Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) acquired earlier this year.

Redbox is set to announce a partner for its entry into the streaming business Thursday on parent company Coinstar’s third-quarter earnings call, according to Merriman Curhan Ford analyst Eric Wold, who predicts Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) or Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will be named.