New Details On Redbox-Verizon Streaming Service, Netflix Competitor Inside Redbox and Verizon's planned subscription offering in the digital and physical space.
Updated Wed Feb 8, 2012
Redbox To Acquire NCR's Blockbuster Express For $100 Million, Boast "More Locations Than McDonald's And Starbucks Combined" Coinstar, the company behind DVD-kiosk service Redbox, today announced it would acquire NCR's entertainment business for as much as $100 million. NCR, once the central rival to Redbox through its Blockbuster Express brand, operates thousands of movie-rental kiosks which will now come under Redbox and Coinstar's control.
Updated Wed Feb 8, 2012
With "Lilyhammer" Netflix Wants To Destroy Traditional TV, Get You "Hooked" On All-At-Once Watching There was no premiere episode. And not much fanfare. Monday morning the show went online, its entire first series watchable in one sitting. What is Netflix thinking?
Updated Wed Feb 8, 2012
Romney Campaign: Square "Could Be Huge," And Other Digital Trends In Politics Zac Moffatt, digital director for the Romney campaign, talks shop on Square, Instagram, Twitter, and the "On-Demanders."
Updated Tue Feb 7, 2012
Redbox Partners With Verizon To Launch Streaming Video Service The Coinstar subsidiary today announced a new partnership with Verizon. The joint venture will launch in the second half of 2012 and be a subscription-based and "affordable service that will allow all consumers across the U.S. to enjoy the new and popular entertainment they want, whenever they choose, using the media and devices they prefer," the companies said.
Updated Mon Feb 6, 2012
Exclusive Look Inside The MTA-MasterCard PayPass Pilot: 17,000 NYC Customers In Six Months For the first time ever, the results of the pilot have been provided, offering insight into just how much traction this technology is seeing among consumers--and how far it is from entering the mainstream.
Updated Thu Feb 2, 2012
Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk Patrick and John Collison, brothers in their early 20s from Limerick, Ireland, have a decidedly bold mission: to become the next PayPal.
Updated Thu Feb 2, 2012
Inside Facebook's S-1 Filing: 845 Million Users, $3.7 Billion In Revenues In 2011 The day has finally come as many has long predicted and hoped: Facebook today filed its S1 registration.
Updated Thu Feb 2, 2012
Box's Aaron "DotNet" Levie On Kim Dotcom, Megaupload, And The New "Cloud Celebrity" It's what's inside that counts, says Levie, particularly when you run a service that houses the files of thousands of web users. And he describes a few of the core differences between a service like Megaupload and his Box.net.
Updated Mon Jan 30, 2012
Artists: SoundExchange Has Free Money For You, No Nigerian Princes Involved Since its inception, SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalty payments from digital music services like Pandora, has brought in more than $900 million--$292 million of which it collected last year alone. But how much of a cut does SoundExchange take for itself? Nothing, other than for operating and administrative costs.
Updated Fri Jan 27, 2012
Jon Rubinstein, Force Behind TouchPad, WebOS, Leaves HP: "We Ran Out Of Runway" The former Apple executive who oversaw the creation of the iPod, Jon Rubinstein was tapped to breathe new life into HP, but has now become a symbol for all the dramatic and bumpy transformations HP has undergone over the past few years.
Updated Fri Jan 27, 2012
Spotify Growing By 8,000 Subscribers Per Day, More Than Netflix, Sirius XM Spotify just hit 3 million paying subscribers, up from 2.5 million just two months ago.
Updated Fri Jan 27, 2012
RapidShare Attorney: If We're Shut Down Like Megaupload, Then YouTube, Dropbox, Apple's iCloud Are Next RapidShare is one of the world's most popular file-hosting sites, and many have wondered whether the site could be next on the feds' list of targets after Megaupload.
Updated Fri Jan 27, 2012
MasterCard Emerging Payments Chief Provides More Proof Apple's Looking Into Smartphone Contactless Payments "I don't know of a handset manufacturer that isn't in process of making sure their stuff is PayPass ready," says Ed McLaughlin, head of emerging payments at MasterCard.
Updated Fri Jan 27, 2012
Rhapsody Nabs Napster International To Battle Spotify In Europe, Knocks Competitor Facebook "Growth" "When it comes to competing against Spotify," says Rhapsody president Jon Irwin, "the name of the game is: Go big, or go home."
Updated Thu Jan 26, 2012
WotWentWrong App Gathers Big Data From Bad Daters Finally, an app that systematically destroys your self-esteem!
Updated Thu Jan 26, 2012
Reed Hastings Expects Television To Become More Like Netflix It's always been assumed that Netflix wants to be more like television--in actuality, CEO Reed Hastings indicated today he wants television to be more like Netflix.
Updated Thu Jan 26, 2012
Apple CEO Tim Cook Touches On Kindle Fire, Android, Windows Phone Offering a rare peek inside the famously secretive company, Apple's earnings are watched by every industry analyst and news outlet--and even live blogged in some instances, like a worldwide sporting event.
Updated Wed Jan 25, 2012
RapidShare Responds To Megaupload Comparisons: Only 5% Of Our Files Are Pirated RapidShare attorney Daniel Raimer explains why the amount of pirated content a service hosts is not the proper metric for deciding whether it deserves the same fate as Megaupload.
Updated Wed Jan 25, 2012
Introducing The Juicebox: A Simple, Sexy Smartphone Charging Station The Juicebox is an elegant mobile phone charging station that lets users juice up their iPhones, Androids, or BlackBerries in public venues.
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
