It’s nearing the end of the fourth quarter and your team just blew a 15 point lead. Now the game is tied. Cut to a commercial break on the ESPN app, and you’re likely to see a very different ad than will a fan of the rival team.
What technology could you not live without?
Theatergoers have collectively spent more than $15 billion at the box office on Marvel movies since the comic-book-company-turned-film-studio launched its superhero movie-verse with Iron Man 10 years ago today (May 2). There was a time when Marvel thought those movies wouldn’t make money.
Saudi Aramco—the world’s largest oil company, thought to be worth more than $2 trillion—has appointed its first female board member as it prepares to go public by early next year.
Avengers: Infinity War just made box-office history.
Avengers: Infinity War is a blockbuster like no other.
NASA is so devoted to lunar exploration that it’s shutting down its moon rover.
Former The Daily Show writer Michelle Wolf skewered Donald Trump on Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But her most fiery jokes of the evening ripped into the women of the Trump administration—in particular press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who, unlike the US president, was in attendance.
Big data, once a Silicon Valley darling, is becoming a tech pariah. Companies like Google and Facebook built their ad businesses using what they know about their audiences but amidst renewed interest among regulators and consumers on data privacy, no one wants to flaunt it anymore.
Amid pressure from parents and consumer advocacy groups, YouTube is creating a safe, and more selective version of its children’s platform.
Google is releasing its eagerly awaited overhaul of Gmail today (Apr. 25), with new features like the ability to access your calendar from your inbox and view attachments without opening an email thread. It’s rolling out gradually throughout the day.
Google’s attempt to take on Amazon in smart-home technology has yet to pay off.
An obscure accounting change added billions to Alphabet’s bottom line during the first quarter of 2018.
Marissa Mayer is starting the next phase of her career exactly where she began nearly 20 years ago.
Apple boss Tim Cook predicted in 2015 that “the future of TV is apps.” That future is here, says one of media’s biggest CEOs. Launching a TV network is now as easy as building an app.
Twenty years after it launched, people are still signing up for Netflix in droves.
Netflix is one of the biggest buyers of content globally, and Wall Street doesn’t expect it to slow down any time soon.
ESPN, the long-time jewel in cable’s crown, has a new head to sit upon—and its name is streaming video.
Moviegoers once devoted substantial chunks of their Friday evenings to perusing the aisles of video stores. You’d go in with one movie in mind, but the latest releases had been picked over. Still, you leave with two or three—and Twizzlers and microwave popcorn—because why not? You went all the way there and had the weekend to watch.
Would you believe Netflix is 20 years old? While the web-video giant is known for streaming video now, it first launched on April 14, 1998 as an online-video store shipping DVDs in the mail in red envelopes.
We all have those moments we’d rather forget. Let’s revisit one of Netflix’s on the 20th anniversary of its launch.
MoviePass, already on a quest to make moviegoing affordable, wants to build a recommendation engine to help people find movies they’ll love.
YouTube has been accused of violating US child protection laws by 23 consumer and child safety groups who filed a complaint (pdf) with the Federal Trade Commission this week.
The Upside Down is coming to Universal Studios. And no, it’s not a new rollercoaster.
