Peter Kafka

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Apple’s $8 Billion Media Business

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 24, 2012 at 3:14 pm PT

Netflix Says It’s Back to Boom Times. Wall Street Isn’t Convinced.

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 24, 2012 at 4:01 am PT

Facebook’s Ad Business: More People, More Ads, Same Prices

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 23, 2012 at 2:43 pm PT

Netflix Posts an In-Line Quarter, but Investors Balk (Updated)

Posted by Peter Kafka in News, April 23, 2012 at 2:06 pm PT

Bombs Away! Web Ads Miss Their Target, All the Time.

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 23, 2012 at 11:24 am PT

The One Number Netflix Investors Care About Today

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 23, 2012 at 3:30 am PT

Reed Hastings’s Expensive Year

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 20, 2012 at 11:43 am PT

Surprise! Walmart’s Cloud Movie Service Is Pretty Good!

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 20, 2012 at 5:37 am PT

“Use a Bear, if Possible.” Viral Video Tips From the Dollar Shave Club Dude.

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 19, 2012 at 11:30 am PT

New York Times Sees Digital Ads Droop

Posted by Peter Kafka in News, April 19, 2012 at 6:10 am PT

Mobile Ads Are Growing Fast, Still Pretty Small

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 18, 2012 at 1:16 pm PT

Spotify Says It Goes Better With Coke (Updated)

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 18, 2012 at 6:40 am PT

Google Goes After TV Dollars by Pretending It’s TV

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 18, 2012 at 3:00 am PT

Newfangled Aggregator Trapit Hires an Old-Timer: Yahoo Editor Liz Lufkin

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 17, 2012 at 6:01 am PT

Hey! Famous People Like Apple, Too!

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 17, 2012 at 4:56 am PT

Twitter Buys Start-Up to Boost “Revenue Engineering Team”

Why You Can’t See SNL’s Great “Game of Thrones” Sketch on NBC.com

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 16, 2012 at 1:35 pm PT

MOG Heads to Australia, With Help From a Telco

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 16, 2012 at 10:52 am PT

Google’s Marissa Mayer Headed to Walmart Board

Chartbeat Raises $9 Million for More Real-Time Web Publishing Analytics

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 16, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

Reed Hastings Goes After Comcast, Again, on Facebook. Again.

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 15, 2012 at 5:03 pm PT

Wall Street Gives Google a Mild Thumbs Down

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 13, 2012 at 10:40 am PT

Live, on Tape, Via the Internet: WikiLeaks, the TV Show

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 13, 2012 at 5:10 am PT

Apple Fires Back at the Feds, Amazon

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 12, 2012 at 6:29 pm PT

Google Can Still Find Time for Self-Driving Cars, and It Doesn’t Expect You to Understand Why

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 12, 2012 at 3:30 pm PT

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I break down a product the same way I break down a character I’m going to play. I try to get inside the mind of that person — the user, the consumer — and figure out why they’re doing something and what they want from it.

— Ashton Kutcher’s investing philosophy