Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, now helming the newbie network OWN, will appear in a live-streamed video with Facebook late next week. In addition to the interview- which will take place at Facebook’s headquarters- the big O will be sitting down […]
Right here would be the place for a cheap “don’t be evil” joke, but I’ll let you fill in the blank. Google, via YouTube, is teaming up with… newschannel… Fox News to host a presidential debate for GOP candidates later […]
The internet’s largest video site has a movie rental service, you know- a service which is now available in Canada. (As well as the US, YouTube reminds us in a blog post.) The service expanded its library of titles in […]
Hulu has finally begun its long awaited international expansion, opening the doors on a subscription only service in Japan. Hulu Japan is offering programming from NBCu, CBS, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney/ABC and other partners and costs 1,480 yen ($19.20) […]
In what probably feels like the final slap in the face to basically dead social network MySpace, a report over on Mashable indicates that the dominant social network may have set its sights on joining the well populated streaming music […]
In a blog post yesterday, Spotify announced that the company was making its code available to developers in order to enable the creation of an entire category of apps for Apple devices. The release of Spotify Embedded Player libspotify […]
Netflix can’t seem to get anything right these days, first the company raises the price of their streaming and DVD services, losing a decent part of their user base and now the company’s stock has fallen 9% on news that […]
It’s not news that the streaming market is a bit heavily populated at the moment, with companies like Netflix, Amazon, Vudu and Hulu all vying for a piece of the rapidly expanding streaming video pie. While the services boast some […]
While it seems Netflix is doing everything in its power to focus on streaming and curb the physical media aspect of its business entirely, Amazon has hinted that it may actually move toward DVD rental as a way to grow […]
Undoubtedly, the seminal moment where new media became a mainstream source for breaking information was in the hours and days following the cataclysmic events of September 11th. The trove of news and media from the day itself (the 10th anniversary […]
Streaming and DVD service Netflix announced last month that price increases roundly criticized as excessive and unfair would be going into effect, and the hikes are set to take place on Thursday, the first week of September. It will be […]
Streaming shows for a single viewing is rising in popularity- witness the rapid rise of Netflix streaming and the high sale numbers batted around for the impending sale of Hulu– but Apple has quietly backed out of the rental market. […]
Music identification service SoundHound has paired up with Spotify in Europe, gaining access to the music streaming service’s 15 million tracks, it was announced Thursday. Analogous to the iPhone app Shazam, SoundHound allows users to ID music by “listening” to […]
Content curation app for the iPad Flipboard has some ambitious expansion goals, in addition to preparations to jump to iPhone and iPod Touch in the near future. Flipboard is currently a newsreader app, but CEO Mike McCue confirms that the […]
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