Netflix hasn’t launched in Australia—or even spoken publicly about any plans to do so—but it is already freaking out the country’s media establishment.
The above chart, which comes from a survey of 1,007 Americans conducted by RBC Capital Markets and was published in a note this morning—I tweeted out RBC’s more detailed but harder to read chart earlier today—gives a nice illustration of what’s happened in US online television over the past 18 months.
Today is a huge day in the history of Apple and for its CEO Tim Cook. But problems with the live stream of the event threatened to take some of the wind out of the sails of the company’s glitzy product launch. (It hardly ruined it however, the stock is up 3.4% at last glance.)
Marissa Mayer is about to confront the decisions that will define her tenure at Yahoo. And if she gets them right, her place in America’s corporate history will be secure.
Devoted Twitter users have been freaking out lately about potential changes to the service. They’re worried that Facebook-style, algorithmically filtered news feeds are about to be thrust upon them. And they are upset that tweets that have been favorited (not re-tweeted) by people they follow are now infiltrating their timelines.
Facebook has been stuffing its newsfeed full of video ads. Twitter has been experimenting with video ads in timelines. Now Spotify, a service known primarily for its audio experience rather than its visuals, also wants a piece of the action.
Shares in the Walt Disney Co. are flirting with their highest levels since the company went public back in 1957. (Disney traded on the over-the-counter markets in the 1940s, before it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange).
The NFL is back. Tonight in Seattle, much to the delight of millions of Americans, the country’s most popular sports league will return with the first game of its latest season.
Is America’s latest golden age for television coming at the expense of its movies?
Rdio, a niche streaming-music service, doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It is perhaps best known for its design, and today that got a major refresh.
Consolidation has been sweeping through the telecommunications sector for a couple of years now, both globally and inside the US.
Tesla Motors shares have hit another record high today, and the stock price for Elon Musk’s electronic vehicle maker has now nearly doubled in 2014.
This was the costliest summer in history for England’s top soccer clubs. And that, for a country that is already home to the world’s highest paying sports team of any kind, is really saying something.
Abercrombie & Fitch is removing logos from most of its clothing. As the chart shows, the company’s sales have been shrinking for the past year, and on a steady downward trajectory for the past three and a half years.
India is the world’s second most populous nation, and its 10th biggest economy. And its national soccer team is ranked an abysmal 150th in official FIFA rankings.
An estimated 70,000 people (many of them, well-paid technology executives, apparently) have gathered this week in the Nevada desert for the annual festival of hedonism and weirdness known as Burning Man.
About a decade ago, people in America were using the term “TiVo” as a verb, inter-changeably with “record” (as in “I’ll TiVo that show”).
It’s easy to forget that Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla Motors, is still very much in its infancy. It’s been listed on the stockmarket for barely four years and has sold only about 40,000 vehicles.
If the self-driving car revolution comes to pass, you’re going to be hearing the name Mobileye quite a bit.
In case you didn’t notice, there is an epic battle brewing over how you listen to music, between the titans of the tech world like Apple, Google and Amazon, and streaming-music companies like Spotify and Pandora Media.
Say what you like about their quality, taste and environmental inefficiency, but coffee pods are taking America by storm. And Wall Street is not immune to their charms, apparently.
The message to corporate America today is clear: If you’re not already looking for a “tax inversion” partner, you should be.
Few soccer players are as unpredictable as Luis Suarez, the Uruguayan striker who achieved global infamy this summer after biting a rival player (not for the first time) at the World Cup. But Mario Balotelli, the mercurial Italian centerforward, might come close. Now, if widespread reports from the UK are to be believed, he is on his way to Suarez’s old club.
“I only read Playboy for the articles,” men used to say, before the internet existed. Now, Playboy hopes to be read for its listicles.
