John McDuling

Dick Costolo.

Here is one reason why Disney is the biggest traditional media company in the US right now: the company is way-better at monetizing its intellectual property than other Hollywood film studios.

Americans are known for being quite obsessed with television. But it turns out there are places on this planet where humans consume even more television than in the US.

Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, has always taken an unwavering stand against advertising on the streaming video site.

Barely two weeks after the much discussed finale of its most critically acclaimed show, shares of AMC Networks are within a smidgeon of their record highs.

Mankind’s rapid march toward a utopian (or dystopian, if you like) future of self-driving vehicles seems inevitable.

Several top officials from FIFA, the global governing body of the sport of soccer, were sensationally arrested overnight in Zurich, Switzerland. They are being extradited to the US to face charges of corruption.

By now you’ve probably heard that Verizon, America’s biggest wireless company, is buying AOL, the ’90s era internet giant that owns media brands like the Huffington Post and some very modern online advertising technologies. (AOL amazingly also still has millions of dialup internet subscribers.)

Two big American cable companies, Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable, want to merge… and  no-one is particularly worked up about it.

Humanity’s march toward a future of self-driving vehicles seems unstoppable.

Time Warner Cable shares hit their highest levels in more than five years on Friday, May 22.

Portland, Oregon is known for its coffee, its hipsters,  generally being a nice place, and, umm, the comedy series Portlandia.

Let the tea-leaf reading begin.

Bill Murray is coming to Netflix.

“We’re only at the beginning of something really exciting,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says. “There is a profound change happening in music.”

Spotify, the Swedish-born streaming music service, wants to be much more than just a streaming music service. At a glitzy event today in Manhattan, the company unveiled the addition of podcasts and video content for users as well as new personalization features.

The markets got a little bit freaked out this afternoon about the tax-free status of Yahoo’s Alibaba spinoff.

Gene Munster has finally thrown in the towel on a prediction he’s been making since at least 2010: that Apple would start making television sets.

Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate raider and occasional Tim Cook pen pal, has sent another missive to the Apple CEO, reaffirming his bullish thesis on the iconic device company, and urging it buy back more of its own stock.

It is entirely fitting that Jay-Z’s best defense of Tidal, his relatively expensive, artist-owned streaming music service, came in the form of a freestyle.

A decade ago Verizon, America’s biggest wireless carrier, was actually worth more than Apple (nearly three times as much!). Then in 2007, the iPhone arrived, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Elon Musk took to Twitter this morning to deny widespread reports (taken from excerpts of a new book about him) that he had scolded an employee who skipped a meeting to attend the birth of his child.

The big corporate news this morning is that US telecom behemoth Verizon has swooped in to buy the internet company AOL for $4.4 billion. Although rumors about this deal were in the air back in January, it still comes as something of a surprise. The immediate takeaway is that this deal creates a potential competitor for Google and Facebook in the online advertising market, and particularly in video. But other well-known figures will be affected too.

Uber, the fast growing, controversial and incredibly popular ride sharing app, is on a roll at the moment.