Yesterday, it was announced that Discovery Communications, the global media company responsible for 28 network brands that include the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet, agreed to acquire San-Francisco-based new media studio and distributor Revision3 in a deal that Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback confirmed exclusively to NMR, is valued somewhere “around $30 million.” Revision3 is [...]

With four winning nominations from the 33rd Annual Telly Awards and a season premier trailer debuting at Mashable Connect, season two of the original web series “Leap Year” is off to a great start. The second season of “Leap Year” begins Monday, June 18, on YouTube, Hulu, and Mashable. “Leap Year” shadows five friends as [...]

Advertisers have finally found a solution to “social media stress”: Kit-Kats. Just kidding, although a firm that works with Kit-Kat in Singapore is trying to do to tackle the unfortunate problem of “social media stress,” which, if you’ve ever used Facebook or Twitter on a regular basis, you know is all too real. Their solution [...]

Video sharing apps are all the rage, and that’s not an overstatement. The two most popular video sharing apps are Socialcam and Viddy, followed in no particular order by Mobli, Color, and Klip. These apps allow you to upload videos taken from your phone to the apps’ respective communities, or your Facebook, YouTube, and Tumblr; [...]

A red-haired girl with a thick Australian accent draws Pokémon while wearing her makeup and hair in a style inspired by the video game Skyrim. ‘Perfect,’ I think to myself, ‘every Web cliché packed into a 10-minute YouTube video.’ In the next video, I watch the same girl talk about her lifelong obsession with the [...]

Depending on your opinion, you are probably going to “dislike” what you’re about to read (If they only had those buttons—but that’s a different story for a different day). Last week, a judge in Virginia ruled that a public employee’s like of a political opponent that resulted in his firing did not fall under protected [...]