John McDuling

Yes, it’s true.

So it looks like Spotify wants to take on YouTube in video.

Revolutionizing the global automobile industry is an expensive pursuit.

When Google’s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, decided to set up a venture-capital fund back in 2009, they chose a relatively little-known neuroscience graduate, entrepreneur, and biotechnology investor to run it. His name is Bill Maris, and over the past five years, he’s become one of the most important and powerful men in Silicon Valley.

Spotify has not waited long since raising hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh capital to launch a major offensive in the streaming music wars.

Real Madrid is the wealthiest sporting team on the planet. A colossus on the pitch, and in the bank, the famous Spanish soccer club has won a record 10 European titles, and generated €549.5 million in revenue in the 2013/14 season, according to Deloitte. It is conservatively estimated by Forbes to be worth $3.4 billion.

Comcast has hit an important milestone: The media conglomerate told investors on a quarterly earnings call this morning that it now has more subscribers for internet service than cable TV. “So broadband has, in fact, surpassed video in terms of the number of subs,” Neil Smit, Comcast’s cable boss said on the call. Here’s what that looks like through the last quarter:

Just a few months ago, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson went out of his way to take aim at BuzzFeed, the viral content company best known for its listicles, gifs, and videos, and its ability to capture vast amounts of web traffic. “Anyone can attract traffic, but there is trash traffic, and there is real traffic,” Thomson said at an investor conference last year. “You go onto BuzzFeed and you’re in a strange place. It’s a really strange place.”

LinkedIn, the corporate social network that possibly sends you annoying emails, reported its quarterly results, and the reaction was swift and brutal.

Almost four months into 2015, Netflix is easily the best performing stock in America’s benchmark index.

Previously, we’ve called it the Serial effect.

For the third straight quarter, Netflix generated more revenue than its feted rival HBO last quarter.

The rise of the mobile phone as the dominant form of communication in our society is hardly a revelation. (It was one of this website’s founding principles.) But it’s still startling to see just how dominant mobile devices have become in the dissemination of news.

Braeburn Capital sounds like a staid, run-of-the-mill asset management firm, and that’s probably the intention.

In case you missed it, Shawn Carter, aka Jay Z, the multi-millionaire rapper and entrepreneur who recently bought streaming music service Tidal for $56 million, unleashed an entertaining rant over the weekend on social media.

iHeartMedia is the biggest terrestrial radio broadcaster in the US: Its 858 stations around the country attract some 245 million listeners each month. The company also has a big events business, and a growing digital presence.

Yesterday, Facebook tweaked the algorithm behind its news feed, striking fear into the hearts of many web publishers and causing widespread panic in the media industry.

In Washington DC tomorrow, representatives from Comcast will meet (paywall) with officials from the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to discuss the giant cable company’s $42.5 billion bid for its smaller peer, Time Warner Cable.

From east London, to Brooklyn, to Tokyo and far beyond, thousands of music enthusiasts flocked to record stores around the world on April 18 to buy vinyl albums made by their favorite artists.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pulled off quite a coup today: Yahoo and Microsoft agreed to amend a contentious deal over search advertising. It sounds incredibly boring—even shareholders seemed not to take notice—but it’s a rather significant development.

Netflix shares are soaring after another outstanding quarter. And as of right now, that’s pushed the market value of the disruptive streaming TV company above CBS Corp, which, by most measures, operates the highest rating broadcast TV network in the US.

Twitter has redesigned its home page, twitter.com.

Netflix posted its quarterly earnings this afternoon and the numbers were pretty solid.

It’s always darkest before the dawn.