The Mouse is in the house. Shares of venerable entertainment icon Disney hit an all-time high Wednesday, powered by strong …
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Why You Shouldn’t Just Blame Your Cable Company for that $200 Bill
Like the older sibling who seems to be blamed for everything, cable, satellite and telco TV providers caught scrutiny Tuesday after research firm the NPD Group released a report forecasting that the average multi-channel …
Ready to Get Rid of Your DVD Collection? The Cloud Is the Answer
Entertainment executives are envisioning a transition coming in the near future, in which consumers convert all of their DVDs to digital files that are stored in a virtual “cloud”—and that can be viewed on any device you want. …
Is Pay Per Channel Cable TV Inevitable?
Most consumers like the idea of pay per channel cable TV, in which the customer would select a la carte the channels he actually watches, rather than pay for a bundled service with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of channels that are …
Coming Soon: Smaller, Cheaper Pay TV Packages?
The average cable TV customer gets (and pays for) 118 channels, yet watches only 17. Consumers may soon have alternatives to this inefficient, costly, and far-from-ideal situation.
I am so not getting rich off my options
I think of this as I read a front-page story in today’s New York Times about Bonnie Brown, a staff masseuse at Google who is now a multimillionaire. It’s the classic cubicle-to-riches story: worker is among the first to sign on at unknown Internet start-up. Internet start-up grows up and becomes massive, universe-changing brand. Worker …