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News Corp.'s decision to make its TV shows available for 99-cent rental to Apple TV users is just the latest chapter in an increasingly cozy relationship between Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs.

Apple introduced a new version of Apple TV on Wednesday with shows from just two networks, as big media companies including General Electric's NBC Universal, CBS and Viacom remain hesitant to get on board. The new $99 Apple TV will allow users to rent TV shows for 99 cents, due to partnerships...

Google is talking to Hollywood studios about a pay-per-view video service based on YouTube, according to a new report. The move comes as Google girds for battle with Apple, and telecom and media companies jostle for control over the next generation of high-speed content delivery.

Wired has just declared the demise of the wild, open web, eclipsed by discrete apps and walled gardens -- all under the control of powerful corporations like Apple. Here's how this dire vision dovetails with the Google-Verizon net neutrality deal.

Media giant Viacom has appealed a judge's ruling that threw out its $1 billion lawsuit against Google-owned YouTube for copyright infringement. Viacom called the decision, which said YouTube was protected by the "fair use" doctrine, "fundamentally flawed." This battle is far from over.

Sumner Redstone, the billionaire chairman of Viacom (VIA) and CBS (CBS), is on the warpath over a story in The Daily Beast. The story, written by Peter Lauria, said that Redstone, 87, was forcing MTV to take a documentary about girl band the Electric Barbarellas seeking a record deal. The story...

BP and Anadarko will battle over whether the former was grossly negligent in the Deepwater Horizon project before an arbitration panel, not a court. This means the fight won't help oil-spill plaintiffs. Plus, Viacom vs. YouTube and dangerously industry-friendly regulators.

Viacom has vowed to appeal after a federal judge threw out its $1 billion lawsuit against Google-owned YouTube. In his landmark decision, Judge Louis L. Stanton said YouTube is covered by the "safe harbor" protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

If there was any doubt that Sumner Redstone regards both CBS and Viacom as personal properties, he dispelled it when he told CBS stockholders, "I will never, never sell Viacom or CBS."

Viacom, the media giant suing YouTube for $1 billion, tried to buy the video site until the very last moment before Google snatched it in 2006. Viacom said buying YouTube would be a "transformative acquisition," according to court documents.