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Shalini Ramachandran, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 10 at 2:16 pm PT
Dish Network Corp. released a feature on its digital video recorder Thursday that automatically removes commercials from shows aired by major broadcast networks, threatening to seriously undercut billions of dollars in broadcast television advertising.
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Peter Kafka in on May 2, 2011 at 5:25 am PT
Dish and EchoStar are paying TiVo half a billion dollars to settle a long-running patent fight over DVR technology. The two satellite TV companies will pay TiVo $300 million up front, and the remainder over 6 years, to settle suits that started in 2004. The settlement follows an
April 20 legal victory for TiVo.
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Voices in News on March 1, 2011 at 3:29 pm PT
Shares in DVR pioneer TiVo
moved lower in after-hours trading today after
the company posted a loss of $0.30 cents per share–two cents worse than analysts were expecting–and offered a disappointing picture of the current quarter. The fast-forward version: Service and technology revenue, down; subscription rate, down; churn, up; expenses, up; legal fees, substantial.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 7, 2011 at 4:49 pm PT
Twitter has crossed the threshold from Web novelty into something substantial. Now Dick Costolo’s job is to turn it into a business–one big enough to justify the sky-high valuation investors have given the messaging company.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 6, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT
During Samsung’s keynote at CES tonight, it invited a full cast of characters to demonstrate how it was moving TV from the living room to both tablets and phones.
