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Cut Your Cable: Hulu's Top 10 TV Shows

1 Family Guy You can get the five most recent episodes and more than 300 clips of Seth MacFarlane's crude cartoon. Hulu's most-watched episode as of September: "Stew-roids." 2 The Office The show is also among NBC's ...READ»

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Seven Stories This Week: Weird Science Edition

Yes, the King of Pop has gone to meet the Emperor of Pop, and taken much of his patented weirdness with him. Lest you forget that Earth is strange enough even without the scion of Neverland Ranch, here are a few of this week's viral ...READ»

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Today in Most Innovative Companies

Daily news of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Hulu, Warner Music Group, Google, and Microsoft.READ»

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Hands on With Hulu Desktop

This week, Hulu released its desktop player for Mac. If you're a TV-loving Mac user, you probably tried Boxee to disastrous affect. So is Hulu's homegrown app any better? Not only is it better, it's downright amazing. ...READ»

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Hulu Streaming to U.K. in September? Not Until ITV and Channel 4 Are Satisfied

American TV aficionados living in the U.K. will get a fabulous gift in September, when web-TV streaming company Hulu opens its service there, according to new rumors. But as well as endless Stargate and Family Guy, they'll also get ...READ»

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Hulu Plus on PS3: The Best Hulu Experience for Your TV, Period

It was possible to get Hulu onto your TV before now, but the options were slim, sometimes tricky, and usually awkward. Hulu Plus on PS3 looks like a new world for the streaming video service.READ»

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Hulu's Top Five New Updates: Better Quality, Better Interface, Better Design, Just Better

Hulu just unveiled about 50 new updates to its site, and they are fantastic. Better ads, video quality that adjusts to your Internet speed, and a new interface--it's all welcome. Now bring it to mobile already, would you?READ»

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Hulu, Best Buy Battling for Your Web Streaming Movie Custom

Best Buy's movie service is primed and ready to launch this month, meanwhile Hulu's premium content system is apparently not due to arrive as soon as we'd thought it would. The net-streaming TV business is never short on drama.BestBuy ...READ»

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Brand Spotlight: Hulu

Beyond a product, a brand is important for establishing a company’s image in the eyes of its customers. On the Internet, it’s even harder for a Web-only brand to establish itself, considering the hundreds, if not thousands, of other sites ready to take its place. In order to get the attention of users, offering a unique product is key, while putting a solid brand and image…READ»

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The Android 2.2 "Froyo" Roundup: Ready to Upgrade?

Android 2.2, Google's mobile operating system which is codenamed Froyo and was unveiled at the company's I/O conference last week, is already rolling out for the Google Nexus One. While only a limited number of people are getting the ...READ»

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Viacom Yanks "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" Off Hulu

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are two of the most popular shows available at Hulu, and have even come to represent the possibilities of the service--personally speaking, I hit up Hulu most mornings specifically to catch ...READ»

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Web TV Wars: Hulu Gains Caption Search

The battle for search-result relevance has a new front: Hulu. The Web-streaming TV company has just added the ability to search captions so you can hunt for a keyword in the text of a show you like. On top of that, they've added ...READ»

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In Only One Year, Hulu Becomes Fourth Largest Video Site in U.S.

Brains! That must be the secret to Hulu rocketing up to being the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, right? That's what Alec Baldwin told us in this creative Super Bowl ad, which may also have had something to do ...READ»

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Seven Tiny Tech Stories That Will Be Huge

Progress isn't all breakout products and scientific coups. In fact, some of the most salient indicators of the direction of technology come in re-directions of products and services we use every day. Here are seven subtle changes to ...READ»

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ZillionTV May Be the Set-Top Streaming Box You've Been Looking For

Web-based television content streaming is hot in the news at the moment, courtesy of events like the Hulu-Boxee shut down. And now there's the new ZillionTV set-top box to add to the mix, and it's a pretty interesting little ...READ»

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Hulu to Begin Pushing $10 Per Month Subscription Service in May

The L.A. Times hears that Hulu is about to launch a $10 per month subscription service. This is huge--the biggest change in Hulu's strategy since launch.READ»

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Why Bitbop, Fox's Mobile Video Subscription Service, Is No Hulu

A video subscription service for smartphones is to be launched at CTIA today by Fox Mobile Group, owned by that champion of the free Internet, Rupert Murdoch. (Can I just say how amazing it is to have Peyote on your cornflakes each ...READ»

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Hulu's Competitors: The Wild World of Web TV

Media giants and startups -- not to mention pirates -- are chasing an online-video audience of 158 million. Here's how key players connect to, and compete with, Hulu.READ»

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Hulu: The Second Life of Network Shows

Hulu has made online hits of network also-rans.READ»

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Does Hulu's Advertising Intimidate Women?

Comcast is betting it does. The cable giant's online TV portal, Fancast, believes that Hulu's ads alienate and confuse women, and they're planning to use their massive new ad push to tap that demographic for themselves. But is the ...READ»

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iPad Rumor Mill: Hulu, $1 TV Shows, and Still No Camera

We may know of its official existence now, but the the rumors surrounding the iPad haven't died down since its announcement. If anything, they've got more intense. In the latest crop: $1 TV shows, Hulu, definitely no camera, and the ...READ»

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Jon Stewart Discovers ChatRoulette With Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermann, Mainstream America

Jon Stewart's great, really he is, but this is awfully disappointing. ChatRoulette? What is this, January 27th? That being said, the clip is really more about the ridiculous news coverage of ChatRoulette than the site itself, and ...READ»

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Hulu Beta-Testing Subscription Service

Hulu became the most popular TV viewing site on the Web in part by being free--but that model may change, reports a Frost and Sullivan analyst. The site is "working out all of the technical details" on a for-pay subscription service ...READ»

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New Media Stars Dominate Fortune’s 40 Under 40

Recently, Fortune magazine released its annual list of 40 rising business stars under the age of 40. While there was sure to be a few media gurus in the mix, given today’s focus on social and digital media networks, 16 major players from areas of digital media and online technology are featured – making up 40 percent of the list. From Google and Hulu to Facebook and Twitter, some of business’ most...READ»

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Today in Most Innovative Companies

News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Nike, Hulu, Google, and IBM.READ»