Funny how certain Hollywood studios have chosen to embrace certain new movie distribution strategies, and yet fight hard against the evoluti… Read more »
Not that this matters in the scheme of things, but shows the opportunities that Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) squandered over the years th… Read more »
Maybe Redbox’s lawyers get a bonus when they hit a certain number of lawsuits but this is getting to be a bit much. Yes, like Chris Albrecht… Read more »
There goes this: it won’t launch, if you ask me. The U.S. Olympic Committee has delayed a plan for its own TV network, meant to highlight Ol… Read more »
The battle between the movie studios and new movie rental services (like Redbox and *Netflix* — but not Blockbuster) is quickly evolving in… Read more »
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is putting some full-length programs online but sticking to its guns when it comes to free broadband… Read more »
Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) is trying to show that the pieces of its WiMax business are starting to fall into place. As evidence, during its seco… Read more »
We’ve been doing our channel checks for some time on the fates of two iconic brands in the men’s magazine industry. One is more troubled tha… Read more »
It looks like the recession is good for the cable industry. Although Cablevision’s recent earnings report was a bit mixed, Comcast (NSDQ: CM… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) executives continued to highlight the importance of their digital plans during the Q2 earnings call. Deals with Clearw… Read more »
Spotify’s recent PR tightrope walk has paid off. We understand the streaming-music app has now closed the funding round it was looking for,… Read more »
Spotify’s recent PR tightrope walk has paid off. We understand the streaming music app has now closed the funding round it was looking for.… Read more »
Eager to show progress, Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) announced today that it will officially launch its Clear WiMax service on Sept. 1 in 10 marke… Read more »
Updated: With the *Time Warner*Cable separation in the past and the AOL spin on the way, *Time Warner* Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes very, ve… Read more »
While Spotify crosses its fingers Apple will approve its client for iPhone’s App Store, some folk are already using Spotify on the handset.… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) had better hope former Tory shadow minister David Davis doesn’t return to a senior role in a future Conservative governm… Read more »
With all the major cable operators in the U.S., rolling out wireless voice and internet services, the question remains: are their customer r… Read more »
Orange UK says it will form a single mobile ad sales team with Blyk, which has now abandoned its ad-funded virtual mobile network (MVNO) mod… Read more »
Europe’s Blyk is rebooting its American ambitions after ditching its original MVNO model in favour of carrier partnerships. The startup had… Read more »
Streamed music service Spotify is trying to gain Apple’s acceptance for its iPhone app by simultaneously whetting users’ appetites and fla… Read more »
– We7: Is We7 finally hitting the right note? Two weeks after saying it’s getting two million monthly uniques, the site has leapfrogged Las… Read more »
Free and paid subscriptions are still growing, but not by enough to keep Financial Times profits in the same direction. FT Publishing’s Janu… Read more »
“Don’t it always seem to go you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” … Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) didn’t pave paradise but it helped kill o… Read more »
Social gaming company Playdom is making its first mobile foray with the launch of Mobsters: Big Apple, an iPhone-based offshoot of its popul… Read more »
Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) officially started selling its WiMax mobile internet service today in Las Vegas, covering about 1.7 million residents… Read more »
One of the attractions online video has had for advertisers is the lack of clutter typically associated with broadcast and cable spots. But… Read more »
Updated: We reported last month that CBS was likely to take part in the Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) On Demand Online trial and now it’s official.… Read more »
Add HBO and Cinemax to the list of networks taking part in the Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Online On Demand national trial slated to start later t… Read more »
Big media companies talk about “breaking the silos” all the time, but often, it remains just that — talk — while content gets incubated an… Read more »
Shock. Horror. NBC is angry at the new Olympics channel to be launched by USOC and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announced yesterday. Yesterday, th… Read more »
The 5,000 Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) subscribers taking part in the company’s planned online VOD trial this summer will have access to 300 movies… Read more »
That was quick: The United States Olympic Committee announced this morning that it will launch a cable TV network devoted to Olympic and Par… Read more »
And now it’s done. Midway Games has been sold to Warner Bros. for $33 million — ending about six months worth of financial turmoil and head… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) will start selling very aggressively priced internet bundles — including both wireless and wired networks — tomorrow… Read more »
DailyCandy COO and GM Catherine Levene is leaving the Comcast-owned fashion and entertainment e-newsletter next month, becoming the second t… Read more »
Sometime this July, 5,000 Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) customers across the U.S. will get the first taste of TV Everywhere — and the first broadba… Read more »
It didn’t take long for *CBS* to issue a statement after Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) announced the upcoming national t… Read more »
Here are the “guiding principles” Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) have agreed on for TV Everywhere (click image to view),… Read more »
Updated: Sounds like Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) have agreed that partnering on TV Everywhere makes more sense than ea… Read more »
The social gaming boom has resulted in a legal spat between two of its biggest players: Zynga is suing rival Playdom over the way Playdom is… Read more »
