11 posts and columns on CSI

Ubisoft's Digital Strategy Includes Ramping Up Its Social Gaming Efforts This Year

in Commerce on March 11, 2011 at 11:25 am PT

Ubisoft, the third-largest independent game publisher in the U.S., said it is hiring in its San Francisco office to build out a team focused on social games.

Zynga Acquires Area/Code, Opens New York Studio

in Commerce on January 21, 2011 at 12:01 pm PT

Zynga’s acquisition spree continues today with its ninth in the past eight months.

CBS' Comcast Deal Clears the Deck for Hulu. Maybe Apple, Too.

in Media on August 2, 2010 at 3:15 pm PT

The 10-year carriage deal that CBS and Comcast announced today is all about good old fashioned TV, delivered via cable pipes, to be consumed on your 42-inch plasma. But the deal could also give Les Moonves and company the ability to move forward on less conventional Web TV deals, too.

Free TV on the iPad: Lots of “Lost,” but No “CSI,” “Simpsons” or “30 Rock”

in Media on April 2, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Want to watch free TV shows on your iPad? Hope you like ABC’s programs. The network is putting lots of its shows on the device, but its counterparts at the other three broadcasters are basically sitting this one out.

CBS Digital Boss Quincy Smith’s Not-Quite Exit Interview: “Hulu’s a Great Service. That’s Part of the Problem.”

in Media on October 28, 2009 at 1:31 pm PT

The man who helped shape CBS’s standalone Web video strategy explains himself, for the record.
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Video Site Veoh Cuts Staff, Boots CEO, Bets on Browser Plug-in

in Media on April 1, 2009 at 11:30 am PT

Video site Veoh, one of the biggest players in the “who will be the next YouTube” competition, is restructuring the company, laying off a good chunk of its staff and replacing CEO Steve Mitgang with founder Dmitry Shapiro. Shapiro says the company, which has been primarily focused on playing video and selling ads on its own site, will now be concentrating on a new “Video Compass” player that users will have to download onto their Web browsers in order to use.

Walt and Katie Report From The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

in Mossblog on February 21, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

Walt Mossberg and Katie Boehret were at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, and sent back this report on some of the highlights of the show.

Coming to Sling.com: Viacom Shows That YouTube, Hulu Can’t Show You

in Media on January 22, 2009 at 8:20 am PT

Sling.com will soon get Viacom shows like “SpongeBob Squarepants,” which you can see on Joost but not on Hulu or YouTube. Confused? Of course you are. And Hollywood wonders why pirate sites are popular.

YouTube’s Big Live Debut: Pretty Small

in Media on November 23, 2008 at 8:30 am PT

Did you watch YouTube Live last night? Odds are you didn’t. The video site’s first attempt at a live-streamed event drew a peak audience of 700,000 people. That’s a lot for a Web event. But if it was a TV show, it would have been canceled.

A-Joost-Ments!

in News on October 1, 2007 at 12:02 am PT

Joost, the online video service, is finally out of beta–kind of–with the release of its 1.0 software to anyone who cares to download it and a redesign of both its Web page and search on the service. The broadband peer-to-peer Internet service, which is trying to popularize a television experience on the Web by providing [...]