Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) stepped to the precipice of blackout Armageddon—and wisely took a giant step back. Instead of risking their standing with subscribers and viewers, they put away the harsh rhetoric, kept working through the midnight deadline Wednesday and made a...
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Any search deal with AOL (NYSE: AOL) would start with the same given: search-advertising revenue will continue to decline as it loses access subscribers. But AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says the deal with Google to extend their search partnership through 2015 should make...
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Ending months of speculation about whether AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can make a new search deal, the companies announced this morning that Google will be the portal’s exclusive search partner through Dec. 31, 2015. The expanded search and content deal now covers mobile search and puts AOL’s...
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If you want to own Glee episodes at a cut-rate price, better get your Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) downloads fast. The e-tailer is countering Apple’s 99-cent rentals from ABC (NYSE: DIS) and Fox by selling some TV episodes at a loss. Amazon still has to pay the contracted rates for electronic...
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Here’s a quick way to learn about the small, black second-gen Apple TV introduced by CEO Steve Jobs at the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) 09.01.10 event:
» How much does it cost? The device is $99, nearly a 67 percent cut from the original $299 price for the first Apple TV and...
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And here it is ... the pocket-rocket version of Apple TV with $4.99 first-run movies and $0.99 TV shows. The main content events: as expected, ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). And, as expected, it’s a heck of a lot cheaper: a much more competitive...
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The invite to Wednesday’s Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) event shows a guitar, which usually suggests music, but that hasn’t stopped the buzz about video. The current Apple TV is too expensive at $269 and too limited in the kinds of content it delivers. With that in mind, expectations include a cheaper, more...
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Last week, one of the nation’s top dailies imploded its structure to go “digital first.” Today, the Deseret News, a much smaller paper in Salt Lake City, Utah, is following USA Today with an equally radical reorganization but very different emphasis—keeping the daily newspaper alive. The DN is slashing its staff levels by 43...
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The National Hockey League is looking to a programming vet from the National Football League to pull its content strategy together and execute it across all platforms. Charles Coplin is joining the NHL as EVP-content, a new position that reports to COO John Collins. Coplin’s responsibilities include NHL.com; NHL Network; the NHL Digital Studios;...
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Target won’t be the only bricks-and-mortar retail outlet for Kindles much longer. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding the Staples office supplies chain to the mix this fall, making that two options for would-be buyers to try out the device. The deal will put Kindle in Staples—the chain has more than 1,500 U.S....
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