Ashley Rodriguez

Apple’s grand plans to dominate TV may quash its earlier foray into video, the Apple TV box. Death knells for the streaming-media player sounded this week after Apple announced that its TV app—the centerpiece of a new campaign to bundle apps from other streaming-video services as well as its own original content—would land on devices from other manufacturers like Samsung, Amazon, Roku, and LG soon. A small share of people use the Apple TV device now. Opening Apple’s video app to other devices makes it even less essential.

Apple’s new plans for TV sound a lot like Amazon’s and Roku’s.

Oprah Winfrey took the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater on Monday (March 25) to announce a partnership with Apple that includes two documentaries and a book club. “They are in a billion pockets, you all,” she said, describing her decision to partner with Apple. “A billion pockets.”

Apple is going to charge for its new streaming-video service. The tech giant announced a big push into streaming video at an event in its Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California on March 25, featuring a parade of stars and a sizzle reel of its upcoming programming.

The 14 students and three staff members gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year were not the last victims of the tragedy. That became evident this weekend after a student at the Parkland, Florida school died by “apparent suicide,” multiple sources reported. The news comes one week after 19-year-old Sydney Aiello, a former Parkland student who also attended the school during the 2018 massacre, reportedly died by suicide as well.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has rarely been photographed publicly in the two years since launching an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Now that the 22-month probe has concluded—and the report delivered to US attorney general William Barr—Mueller has been spotted leaving church services with his wife in Washington, DC, seemingly at ease.

Jordan Peele’s horror film Us landed in US theaters this weekend. It’s already a hit.

A high-school drama club in the US state of New Jersey is getting attention from Hollywood elite like Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood after staging an impressive rendition of Ridley Scott’s Alien, complete with a xenomorph costume made from discounted and donated materials and the classic face-hugger scene.

Pinterest revealed a trove of data about its more than 250 million monthly active users in an IPO filing on Friday (March 22). While Pablo, 32, from Buenos Aires; Priyanka, 25, from Mumbai; and Kaye, 70, from Louisville—all featured in the filing—are surely worthy of their own portraits, the filing also paints a picture of the typical Pinterest user, or “pinner.” 1 Here’s what we learned about her 2.

iPhones, iMacs, and other hardware are likely to take a backseat to news and entertainment at Apple’s first big product event of 2019.

Apple is shining a spotlight on its services.

If a commercial airs on TV and no one is around to watch it, does it still make a sound? Yes. And an advertiser has still spent a lot of money—sometimes millions of dollars—for the ad not to be heard.

US politics have long been a popular pathway to lucrative board seats at major corporations.

When Apple previews its upcoming TV service at its Cupertino headquarters on March 25, it will be the first look that many people in Hollywood—including those creating shows for the upcoming platform—will get of the video service.

After a troubled year that saw the market value of MoviePass’s parent collapse and the company delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange, the company’s chief financial officer is stepping down.

AT&T thinks it can charge more for fewer streaming-TV channels because of HBO.

Neil Gaiman never imagined adapting Good Omens for TV in this way—without co-author and friend Terry Pratchett. The fantasy novelists long dreamed that when their beloved 1990 book became a TV series, they would include a scene in a sushi restaurant in which they were seated together in the background. The book, at heart, is a buddy comedy, after all. And they liked the idea of eating sushi on set all day, Gaiman said, at the South by Southwest film and interactive festival on March 9.

Imagine sitting down to watch a movie and only being able to watch eight minutes of it at a time. That is Hollywood veteran Jeffrey Katzenberg’s vision for the future of TV, although you won’t necessarily be sitting down. The streaming-video platform he is developing, called Quibi (for “quick bites”), is made to be watched on smartphones only, wherever and whenever you find moments during the day. It is slated to launch in April 2020.

In an IPO prospectus released Friday (March 1), ride-hail company Lyft described the 18.6 million active riders who use its ride-hailing services or rent its shared bikes and scooters. As the first US ride-hail app to release its IPO filing, Lyft is giving an early glimpse into the audience for ride-sharing services in the US and Canada, where the company operates.

Ride-hail company Lyft, which released its registration statement to become a public company today (March 1), says it now captures 39% of rides provided by drivers using Lyft or Uber in US. That estimate, from December 2018, is almost double the 22% market share that Lyft had at the end of 2016, according to the filing.

Content is quickly becoming a commodity at the new AT&T.

Some of the most-viewed videos on Facebook from the animal-centric media brand the Dodo are heartwarming clips of tiny kittens, cuddly rescue pit bulls, and tender moments with hippos. On Snapchat, viewers are more drawn to snakes and spiders. A video from the Dodo featured in Snapchat’s Discover section this week showed a man in Vietnam having a leech removed from his nose.

Critics are lukewarm on Robert Rodriguez’s new sci-fi epic Alita: Battle Angel. Yet, audiences on Rotten Tomatoes are digging it, with 94% rating the film positively. This sort of divergence has happened before, with critics and audiences on the platform reaching vastly different consensuses on movies like Bright, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Bohemian Rhapsody in recent memory.

Scroll through the Netflix app and you’re likely to find the streaming giant’s logo blaring back at you from many titles in its library. The Umbrella Academy, a Netflix original. The Punisher, a Netflix original. The Great British Baking Show, a Netflix original. It’s not always clear what “original” means.