Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Expensive content on the cheap: A start-up that licenses stuff from the likes of Reuters, Bloomberg and Forbes.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:01 am PT
New theory behind the Netflix/Starz breakup: Netflix was willing to pay up — it just wasn’t willing to price its service like a cable channel.
Peter Kafka in News on June 23, 2011 at 7:37 am PT
What if you had to wait eight days to watch last night’s “Office” on Hulu, unless you were a cable subscriber? That would make Hulu a lot less valuable, right?
Peter Kafka in Media on January 5, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT
“Modern Family” is a hit online, but that popularity may hurt its value down the road.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 22, 2010 at 9:00 am PT
Google has
so much money and is
so intent on pushing its Chrome browser that it’s willing to put marketing dollars into the weirdest places.
Like a print newspaper.
Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2010 at 7:15 am PT
The Facebook movie is finally here, the reviews are in and–no surprise–the critics are raving.
After all, it was done by Hollywood pros with director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, who have apparently transformed the appalling badly penned and very fictional book “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal” by Ben Mezrich into some bit of cinematic art.
But that’s not BoomTown talking, so here is a rundown of five reviews by top critics.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 31, 2010 at 9:03 am PT
Very, very good bet: Steve Jobs will stand up onstage tomorrow and announce that you can rent some episodes of ABC and Fox TV shows from iTunes for 99 cents a pop. Big deal? Maybe. But probably not.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 27, 2010 at 11:09 am PT
Another small start-up gets sucked up into the Googleplex. This one is Angstro, which was supposed to help deliver news to users based on their “social graph.” But founder Rohit Khare has shut the service down and is now working at the search giant.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 16, 2010 at 3:36 pm PT
Remember the great Hulu/Boxee controversy of 2009? It’s not going away. In response to questioning from the Federal Communications Commission, NBC has described its version of the incident–but the broadcaster doesn’t want everyone to see what it has to say.
