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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding its Prime Instant Video library in a deal with Viacom (NYSE: VIA), bringing the total number of streaming v… Read More »
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By David Kaplan
Nov. 10, 2011, 6:33pm
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The third movie in the Transformers franchise helped boost Viacom’s revenues in its FY Q4 results both at the box office as digital distrib… Read More »
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“I’d studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines,” Michael Stipe once sang, vicariously, as though channelling Dan Rather. R… Read More »
Bitbop Pulls A Hulu, Goes Abroad With Ad-Free Mobile Video Offer In Germany
By Ingrid Lunden
Sep. 5, 2011, 8:56pm
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Bitbop, the mobile video service once owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and then sold in a whirr of a divestment strategy, looks like it is fi… Read More »
A couple of months after securing $1 million in funding, Figment, the community writing site for teens, is launching a toleration-themed wri… Read More »
Viacom’s Dauman: Streaming Deals Will Keep Affiliate Fees Rising
By David Kaplan
Aug. 5, 2011, 5:15pm
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Although Viacom’s stock, along with most everyone else’s, has been battered in recent days by the market declines the past few days, it migh… Read More »
New York Times (NYSE: NYT) media writer and David Carr, appearing now in theaters via documentary Page One, hit the big time on TV Tuesday n… Read More »
Wonder what the angst over this week’s Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) price increase — 60 percent for those who want both streaming and DVDS — would… Read More »
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By David Kaplan
Jul. 7, 2011, 4:20am
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MagnaGlobal president and CEO Elizabeth Herbst-Brady is exiting her role after three years to join MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) as EVP of ad sal… Read More »
Rhapsody hopes to move in to the black in the final two quarters of this year, after turning around subscriber decline following its spinout… Read More »
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Jun. 23, 2011, 6:33am
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iPads and other tablets that enable television watching are looking to be one of the legal flash points between content owners and distribut… Read More »
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Jun. 15, 2011, 12:39am
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So-called “Flash cookies” got some headlines in the online privacy world last year, after some prominent researchers noted that they were so… Read More »
By Ingrid Lunden
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Some media companies, like Disney (NYSE: DIS) and News Corp.’s Fox, have invested a lot of time and money into mobile as standalone business… Read More »
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