Peter Kafka in Media on February 7 at 7:00 am PT
Ashwin Navin used to run BitTorrent. Now he’s making another stab at video, this time with help from August Capital.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 20, 2011 at 10:14 am PT
With a swarm of start-up accelerators in the mold of Y Combinator all hitting the tech scene last year, it’s inevitable that some will fall by the wayside. But I/O Ventures, based in San Francisco’s Mission District, will be back for another season, co-founder Paul Bragiel tells NetworkEffect.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 7, 2011 at 8:21 am PT
It’s easier than ever to download any movie or TV show you want on the Web, for free. Just ask Rich Greenfield. Or better yet, let the Wall Street analyst show you, via a helpful four-minute video .
Liz Gannes in Social on December 30, 2010 at 11:09 am PT
If you run a user-generated content site, takedown notices from copyright holders are a fact of life. That even goes for Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters of text. The site received on the order of 300 takedown notices in the last month.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 1, 2010 at 12:52 pm PT
Everyone has something to say about today’s speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the subject of net neutrality. Having been blocked in the courts from imposing sanctions on Comcast for throttling users of BitTorrent, the commission has been spinning its wheels trying to find a way to nudge the broadband industry in a direction toward treating all Internet content fairly.
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Lauren A.E. Schuker, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 17, 2010 at 4:19 pm PT
Warner Bros. is investigating how the first 36 minutes of the newest “Harry Potter” film came to be posted on the Internet late Monday night, four days ahead of the movie’s world-wide theatrical debut on Friday.
John Paczkowski in News on July 9, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Were you a Comcast subscriber between April 1, 2006, and December 31, 2008? Did the company’s network management techniques during that time screw up your Fedora downloads? Then why haven’t you filed your P2P Congestion Settlement Claim yet?
Kara Swisher in News on June 25, 2010 at 7:48 am PT
It seems like every day, a different Silicon Valley company is in the crosshairs of one of the alphabet soup of federal government regulators over a range of concerns.
But one of the more important digital inquiries these days is the hairy-eyeball once-over Comcast is getting in the vetting of its deal to acquire NBC Universal. And it’s clear that the company is going to have to answer mounting questions about how it plans to conduct itself online.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 10, 2010 at 8:30 am PT
Three bucks gets you “TV Times,” aimed at people who won’t be reading this post.
