Patent trolls — shell firms that don’t produce anything but instead amass patents in order to sue real companies — have long been tormenting the technology sector. Now, they are coming for media companies and one famous …
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Is the Stock Market Really Dying?
Pessimism is often most widespread when a long period of economic troubles is nearing an end. What follows can be a surprisingly strong rebound.
#NBCFail? Not Quite. Prime Time Olympics Coverage is Surprising Success for Network
It’s more than a week into the London Olympics, and Twitter users are still hammering NBC for its tape-delayed coverage, its glitchy streaming online video, and the endless commercials in between and during the competition. But …
Should Justice Drop the Apple Ebook Lawsuit?
When the news of the Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Apple and five of the nation’s largest book publishers became public earlier this spring, it took many by surprise. The suit accused Apple and the publishers …
Why Marissa Mayer Is Feeling Lucky
Silicon Valley likes leaders with star power, and they don’t come any bigger than Marissa Mayer, the newly anointed head of Yahoo. Her resume is surely the template for a post-modern, information-age celebrity CEO — Stanford artificial intelligence degree, employee No. 20 at Google, developer of the iconic white search page, user …
News Corp. Split Signals Twilight for Mega-Mogul Rupert Murdoch
News Corp.’s plan to split itself into two companies marks the end of an era for Rupert Murdoch‘s decades-long, largely successful quest to build the most powerful media company in the world. Company shareholders have already …
Made for Digital: Believe Entertainment Group Is Bypassing Television
A new breed of media companies are trying to convince people to get their sitcom and drama fix directly from online original programming instead of television.
For Netflix Users, “Catch-Up” TV Viewing Has a Catch
For the last two weeks, I’ve been what Netflix likes to describe as a binge viewer, watching two, sometimes three episodes a night of the acclaimed AMC adult drama Breaking Bad.
But now that I’m completely hooked, I’ve …
Social Media Before the Internet: Tales of Victorians, Comic Book Fans, Phone Phreaks and CBers
Although the current spate of social media platforms burst onto the scene within the last several years, these tools have antecedents in earlier, traditional media. Long before the rise of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, people …
Suggested New Movement: “Cord Trimming”
in between that revolutionary band of consumers who say they no longer want to pay for channels they don’t use, and a video content establishment that says you need to support the incumbent pay TV model, there is … compromise.
Why HBO Is Once Again TV’s Most Relevant Network
It was just one more small step for TV Everywhere. HBO Go will now be available on yet another tablet, the Kindle Fire, through eight out of the top 10 pay TV services in the U.S.
And it was just one more incremental move for …
How the Business of Streaming Music Will Change Culture…For the Better
Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists.
Focus instead on the nature of those payouts.