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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS Interactive is launching an online feature that enables groups of viewers to collectively watch and interact with streaming TV content.

Internet retailers selling precious metals say that economic uncertainty, the stock market crash, and inflation fears have led to a resurgence of interest in all kinds of precious metals--and a shortage of gold and silver coins.

Eric Schmidt plans to make a campaign appearance Tuesday with the Democratic nominee for president but says "Google is officially neutral," according to The Wall Street Journal.

The new ad network and editorial site is pretty much a testosterone-fueled parallel to Glam. The question is whether either one is equipped to weather the impending ad recession.

Motorola gearing up to release social networking Android smart phone by second quarter, according to BusinessWeek report.

Independent artists who distribute their music through TuneCore can now get a cut of the ad revenue when it's streamed on iLike, per a new agreement.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - News Corp.'s mobile content operation is rebranding and reorganizing as it aims to expand into new territories and make mobile a key growth business for the conglomerate.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.

Reuters - CBS Interactive is launching an online feature that enables groups of viewers to collectively watch and interact with streaming TV content.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS company Optus says it will cut 115 jobs within its engineering and technical division.