Archive for category: Video & Audio

Yahoo Bringing ExclusiveTom Hanks Sci-Fi Series To Tablets, Internet Connected TVs

Yahoo Bringing ExclusiveTom Hanks Sci-Fi Series To Tablets, Internet Connected TVs

Yahoo is preparing to bring their first original scripted piece of programming to web and online devices and that programming will be none other than the Tom Hanks produced animates sci-fi series Electric City. Feature 90-minutes of animated fiction the […]

UK and Ireland PS3 Users Wake Up To Netflix App Installation, No Service

UK and Ireland PS3 Users Wake Up To Netflix App Installation, No Service

It was a good day to be a Playstation 3 user in the UK and Ireland, that’s because users of that particular gaming system woke up this morning to find the Netflix App among the consoles many TV and video […]

Yahoo Looks To Potential Netflix Acquisition, But Is It The Right Move

Yahoo Looks To Potential Netflix Acquisition, But Is It The Right Move

Rumors began circulating on Thursday that Yahoo! Inc., could make a grab for movie and TV streaming service Netflix, a buyout that would concede a good chunk of the online video and TV streaming space to the company. The rumor […]

Funny Or Die Teams Up With Yahoo News To Develop Satirical GOP Debate

Funny Or Die Teams Up With Yahoo News To Develop Satirical GOP Debate

With the 2012 election cycle currently witnessing the battle of the GOP all-stars (if you want to call them that), the team at Funny Or Die has decided to bring their brand of satirical humor to the masses with the […]

Netflix Shares Soar After Company Announces 2 Billion Streaming Hours

Netflix Shares Soar After Company Announces 2 Billion Streaming Hours

Netflix on Wednesday announced that the fourth quarter brought with it 2 billion streaming hours of TV shows and movies to 20 million streaming subscribers, enough to raise the company’s shares by 8.4%. Shares may have also rose after analyst […]

Google and Apple Looking To License TV Content In Bids For UK Sporting Rights

Google and Apple Looking To License TV Content In Bids For UK Sporting Rights

Apple is preparing to jump into the ring for TV rights bidding that could place some of next seasons Premier League UK football games directly on Apple TV set-top boxes. The Daily Mail is reporting that the company would like […]

Spotify’s Top 100 in 2011, Country by Country

Spotify’s Top 100 in 2011, Country by Country

I have to admit, I’m kind of in love with Spotify. At first, I was like, “okay, so it’s Grooveshark, but I have to open a separate app. Lame.” And then I was like, “well, it might be okay, but […]

Spotify Asks Users To Create “Best Of” Playlist For 2011

Spotify Asks Users To Create “Best Of” Playlist For 2011

2011 has been a big year for Spotify, first the company launched in the United States with hundreds of thousands of paying members, then they announced a major partnership with Facebook which brings the service to 800 million user accounts […]

Rhapsody Reaches One Million Paying Subscribers Milestone

Rhapsody Reaches One Million Paying Subscribers Milestone

  Rhapsody on Friday announced that the music streaming platform has surpassed the one million paying subscribers milestone on the heels of its 10-year anniversary. The company also announced that they are now delivering more than 10 million songs to […]

Louis CK’s Experiment Clocks $1M in Sales, Comic Donates $280K to Charity

Louis CK’s Experiment Clocks $1M in Sales, Comic Donates $280K to Charity

So, Louis CK’s experiment– self-producing, distributing and selling a successful comedy special without the use of services like iTunes- seems to be a rollicking success. The latest update on the comic’s figures (and very humbly astonished reaction to such) comes […]

Super Bowl To Be Streamed Online For The First Time This Year

Super Bowl To Be Streamed Online For The First Time This Year

Although the NFL has been streaming its popular Sunday Night Football property for four seasons, the Super Bowl will live-stream for the first time (legitimately) in 2012. Each year, searches for live streams of the championship American football match increase […]

Spotify Wins Best Music Service [Mashable Awards]

Spotify Wins Best Music Service [Mashable Awards]

Top social media reporting website Mashable has awarded Spotify with their 2011 “Best Music Service or App” award this year, wrapping up a 2011 that saw the service arrive in the United States with huge success along with Facebook integration […]

Cablevision Becomes Last Cable Provider to Offer HBO Go

Cablevision Becomes Last Cable Provider to Offer HBO Go

Just days after New York metro-area Time Warner Cable announced it would be adding HBO Go access to its subscription services, Long Island-based Cablevision relented and also added the service. Cablevision, the fifth-largest cable provider in the US, was the […]

YouTube Rewinds 2011, Tallies Top Videos

YouTube Rewinds 2011, Tallies Top Videos

  YouTube has released its most viewed videos of 2011, and the results will probably not entirely surprise you. One notable announcement pertains to viewing stats- according to YouTube’s blog, more than a trillion videos (1,000,000,000,000) were watched worldwide, which […]