Peter Kafka in Media on January 9 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.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 21, 2011 at 8:05 am PT
The Onion lands its second TV show in a month–this one is the pitch-perfect “Onion News Network” on IFC–and we sit down with head writer Carol Kolb.
Nat Worden, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 18, 2010 at 10:15 pm PT
Time Warner Cable Inc. is rolling out a lower-priced cable TV package called “TV Essentials” that excludes major cable networks like ESPN, Comedy Central, TNT, Fox News, MSNBC, Fox regional sports networks and MSG.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 16, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT
So let’s say you do want to watch Web video from your couch. Who’s going to find the good stuff for you? A new start-up says it can–by getting you and your friends to do the heavy lifting.
Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2010 at 2:56 pm PT
After news of the Demand Media IPO filing came out late last week, I was not that surprised to get an email from someone deeply involved in building an online content business.
“If they are worth over a billion with those financials, I can’t wait to find out what we are worth. What am I missing?”
Well, nothing actually, as Demand’s filing to raise $125 million in an initial public offering at a reported $1.5 billion valuation showed that making it big in the online content business was still slow going. It is a lesson investors can also learn from AOL’s recent travails.
