Ina Fried in Media on November 6, 2012 at 8:23 pm PT
With an iPad strapped to each arm, correspondent John Oliver reads an “actual tweet” from an “actual voter” before calling the election for Romney.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 20, 2012 at 9:34 am PT
It’s fun to speculate about cord-cutting and bundle-breaking. But the pay-TV world has no interest in changing. Long-term, big-dollar deals like this are the reason why.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 11, 2012 at 6:01 pm PT
Viacom knocks its shows off its own sites. But they’re still a (legal) click away
Peter Kafka in Media on January 9, 2012 at 3:45 pm PT
Who knew the first cable-cutting alternative would come from Justin Timberlake and crew? At least it’s supposed to: Plans are vague now, but will supposedly be firmed up soon.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 2, 2011 at 10:33 am PT
SteelHouse has raised a second round of funding, totaling $6.3 million, to build an e-commerce platform tailored to each shopper’s individual personality.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 13, 2011 at 12:27 am PT
The television actor is
winning!!! — at being called a loser!
Peter Kafka in Media on April 10, 2011 at 8:39 am PT
Twitter’s pitch: Buy ads with us, and we’ll make your ads more valuable. Comedy Central gives it a shot with tonight’s “Comedy Awards”. And coming soonish, perhaps: embedded TV broadcasts on Twitter.com itself.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 30, 2011 at 4:45 pm PT
Asked to create a “tornado of fire” for a Harry Potter movie a few years ago, digital artists at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic found the techniques they were using not up to the task. Then they discovered graphics chips, and things got very interesting.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 1:30 pm PT
I was wrong to wonder if the IBM “Jeopardy” Challenge would penetrate into popular culture. Watson, the computer that crushed humans at “Jeopardy” made its debut in a late night comedy monologue last night.