Ina Fried in Mobile on May 9 at 7:00 am PT
Moving beyond the desktop, BlueStacks is launching GamePop — an Android-based console with a subscription game service.
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Shalini Ramachandran, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on January 22 at 3:35 pm PT
Dish Network Corp. plans to close a further 300 Blockbuster stores in the U.S. in the coming weeks, leaving the video chain with less than one-third of the stores acquired by the satellite-television company in 2011.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 22, 2012 at 7:39 am PT
Comcast won’t sell you its new Web video service unless you’re a Comcast cable subscriber. But it could change that overnight.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 6, 2012 at 6:22 am PT
Here’s the Netflix-style video service that Verizon wouldn’t talk about a couple months ago — a joint venture with Redbox, which has an uneasy relationship with a lot of big media companies.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 6, 2012 at 5:08 pm PT
Warner Bros. wants to keep its DVDs out of the hands of renters for an extra month. Blockbuster and Redbox don’t want to play along.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 5, 2012 at 2:21 pm PT
Want to watch a new movie just out on DVD from Warner Brothers? You’re going to have to buy it, or wait even longer to get it from Netflix or other disc renters.
Kara Swisher in Media on December 26, 2011 at 8:52 am PT
Should Hollywood blame turkeys like “New Year’s Eve,” or all those beeping, buzzing digital devices?
Liz Gannes in Social on December 5, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Two and a half months after Facebook promised that a huge revision of its self-expression and sharing tools were coming soon, users and developers are still waiting.