The future of WebM, a free new Google technology for streaming video, is uncertain, but already it's changed the industry. Here's a look how. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Microsoft continues to embrace open source software, announcing Tuesday that its new Edge browser will support the VP9 video codec for playing WebM video. The codec, which was developed by Google, is ...

Last week, MPEG LA and Google announced that they entered into agreements granting Google a license to technologies that “may” be essential to VP8, the video codec fueling WebM. While this agreement ...