After enduring a torrid few months, Netflix is hoping to get that it can generate some positive momentum by announcing plans to launch in the U.K. and Ireland early next year — its first product launch outside the Americas. But it will face stiff competition.
The world is about to get another online video service. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who co-created KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, is se…
— Joost: The P2P online premium video streaming company Joost, founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are no longer involved but it’s…
Adconion Media Group has secured nearly $34 million (£21 million) in a financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The ad network, which is based i…
As big guns like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reportedly gear up to launch their own music streaming services, the smaller sta…
The economics of attention is much more ruthless and unforgiving than the real economic underpinning of a product. Just as it is hard for a movie to recover from a bad opening weekend, today’s “apps” lose if they don’t make a good first impression.
For all the fuss over Steve Burke laying out the planned structure for a post-approval Comcast-NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), you’d think this wa…
Whether you liked or loathed the premiere of NBC’s The Event last night, the transmedia elements accompanying the series are super-disappointing. While there are a few sites and Twitter accounts, their level of success ranges from mildly entertaining to flat-out disjointed.
Today on the Net: ABC has doubled the number of ads it shows in its iPad app, Demand Media chooses Joost for its video ad sales and technology, and Epix is adding authentication with a new HD site aimed at Cox and Mediacom customers.
— Skype: The VOiP firm is adding game firm Mig33’s chief marketer Doug Bewsher as its own chief marketing officer, based in Luxembourg to “…
