A troubled YouTube user who opened fire at the Google-owned company’s campus on Tuesday was apparently upset with the way she was paid by the platform.
Google’s and Amazon’s virtual assistants could become scary smart.
Lots of people under 40 have a special place in their hearts for Carmen Sandiego, the fictional globe-trotting thief at the center of a long-running computer game that helps kids learn subjects like geography, history, and math. Now Netflix is counting on Carmen Sandiego’s multi-generational appeal to help it make inroads into the franchise business.
The advertising industry has long predicted that TV ad revenues would collapse under the weight of cord-cutting and competition from online platforms like Google and Facebook. It looks like that’s finally happened.
US conservatives are calling for a boycott of Netflix after the streaming-video service appointed Susan Rice, former national security advisor and UN ambassador during the Obama administration, to its board on Wednesday.
Finding the perfect GIF to express yourself in a text or on social media is something of an art form. Google recognizes how much we use animated images to communicate, and wants to make it easier to find the perfect one to match your mood, as well as assert its position as the leader in search.
This may go down in history as the week the mobile web became the web.
One of the most frustrating things about being a modern-day sports fan is figuring out where, and when, to watch the game. A new offering from Turner Sports promises to remedy that problem.
Steven Spielberg’s virtual-reality romp Ready Player One is the kind of movie that’s made to be seen on the big screen. Its iconic director says that distinction ought to mean something in the age of streaming video.
“Oh gosh… No, no, no… With a voice like this?… Horrible. Dreadful.”
In need of a new side hustle? Netflix is paying up to $15,000 each to hackers who expose flaws in its system.
There are more than 60 million gun-related videos on YouTube, a search for the term “gun” today reveals. The Google-owned platform is stepping up its efforts to make sure those videos aren’t promoting the sale or manufacture of firearms, too.
As Facebook’s top brass holed up yesterday to deal with the fallout from data privacy revelations that erased more than $50 billion in market value in two day, its top rival, Google, was addressing the two companies’ biggest clientele: the advertising industry.
Amazon has overtaken Alphabet as the US’s second most-valuable publicly traded company behind Apple.
The Weinstein Company has stiffed a lot of prominent people.
Google and Facebook are loosening their grips on online advertising.
People shop on Google. But they buy on Amazon. Google wants to change that.
At SXSW last week, festivalgoers sported black and white cowboy hats around town like badges of honor—and not because the event was held in Austin, Texas.
Do you remember the first TV show you watched on Amazon Prime, its $99-a-year shipping and streaming service? Amazon probably does.
“You’re not going to make it out of here alive,” a woman said in a salty tone as I exited the train car at Sweetwater station in the dead of night.
The art of film criticism has long been dominated by men, yet half of moviegoers are women.
Online-advertising platforms are taking a hard line against cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Netflix is exploring short, Snapchat-style vertical video on mobile, it announced Wednesday. The internet-TV company says the format is a more natural fit for phones and could help people discover new TV shows and movies faster.
MoviePass—the Netflix for cinemas that gets theatergoers into a 2D movie each day for a flat $9.95 monthly fee—is looking beyond the movie theater to make money. It wants a piece of every aspect of your movie night, from dinner beforehand to drinks afterward.
