Comcast, Time Warner Cable Remain Among Most-Hated TV Providers: Survey
Comcast and Time Warner Cable -- in the midst of a $45 billion proposed merger to create a cable colossus with 30 million subscribers -- are stuck in the bottom...
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Facebook Buys Virtual Reality Co. Oculus for $2 Billion
In what sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, Facebook envisions extending social media and entertainment into virtual-reality worlds, announcing a deal to acquire virtual-reality headset maker Oculus VR in...
Disney Buys Maker Studios In Deal Worth At Least $500 Million
The Walt Disney Co. is acquiring Maker Studios , a top YouTube multichannel network, for $500 million with a performance-based earn-out of up to $450 million, the Mouse House announced....
After Disney’s Maker Buy, More Deals In Store for Multichannel Networks
With Disney's blockbuster $500 million-plus deal to buy Maker Studios, look for dealmaking activity in the online multichannel network space to continue apace. MCNs are "now top-of-mind for all the...
Netflix Dropping Fox’s ’24′ From Streaming Queue
Tick, tick, tick: Netflix users have only about a week to watch Fox's "24," the real-time thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland, before the series is removed from the streaming service. Netflix's...
Twitter Kick: TV-Related Tweets Spur Most Users to Action, Twitter and Fox Study Says
Twitter has argued that it can supercharge TV viewing, and now has more data to back that up: a new study shows that 92% of Twitter users have taken immediate...
Apple Shares Rise After Report About Comcast TV-Partnership Talks
Shares of Apple opened Monday up 1% after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is in early discussions with Comcast about a streaming-TV service delivered over the cable...
March Madness Dunks Record Digital Views in Early Play — with Apparently No Glitches
Turns out somebody can deliver a high-volume digital video event without any noticeable snafus. The web and mobile NCAA March Madness Live service, managed by Turner Sports, registered record video...
Netflix Chief Hastings: Internet Providers Should Provide Free Access to Content Companies
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings agreed to pay Comcast for direct connections to the cable giant's Internet networks. But he isn't happy about it. The exec issued a call for a...
Tribune Digital Unit Launches Streaming-Audio News App with Robot and Human Voices
Ready for a computer to deliver you a daily radio newscast? Tribune Digital Ventures, the technology arm of Tribune Co., has launched Newsbeat, a news-aggregation app that sifts through around...