Media

The boom in e-readers and tablets -- such as the iPad, Nook and Kindle -- has resulted in Americans starting to read more books, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

The leading daily deals website is ready for its prime-time close-up. CBS is picking up Friend Me, a sitcom about two friends who move to Los Angeles to work for Groupon. Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played "McLovin" in Superbad, will star.

If you thought the unskippable FBI warning about piracy included on every DVD was annoying before, prepare for an additional pre-roll message, brought to you by Homeland Security.

Amazon sold just 750,000 Kindle Fire tablets during the first three months of 2012, well off its fourth quarter mark. Apple sold 11.8 million iPads. And the future looks even more grim for the Fire.

Summer may be when studios put out their biggest movies, but after a horrendous 2011 at the box office, Hollywood is going all out starting in the spring: This rapid-fire slate of potential blockbusters should turn heads this season.

Television may be evil, but it's not evil enough for Wall Street. Analysts are worried that ratings for Viacom's children's TV leader Nickelodeon are in danger over its friendly streaming video deal with Netflix.

Sirius XM Radio raised its prices in January and totally got away with it. Last summer, Netflix tried it and got burned. So what did the satellite radio giant do smarter than the streaming video king?