Amazon Couples Movie Streaming With Shipping
Amazon adds to our movie-watching options with an odd coupling of shipping and cinema.
View ArticlePostal Service Cutbacks Add New Light to Netflix Saga
The now aborted plan by Reed Hastings of Netflix to distance the company's brand from its DVD rental business has gone down as one of the year's biggest business blunders. But an announcement on Monday...
View ArticleModern Warfare 3 Passes $1 Billion in Sales in 16 Days
Modern Warfare 3, the first-person shooter video game, reached $1 billion much more rapidly than Modern Warfare 2, an earlier installment of the game, which took took 60 days.
View ArticleThe Explosion of Mobile Video
Cisco's latest report says that in five years mobile data traffic will grow threefold. Three-quarters of the total is video, on laptops, tablets, and ever-cheaper smartphones The carriers are going to...
View ArticleDisruptions: Impulse Buys, Straight to a Screen
Why one consumer has spent more on digital media in the last year than he used to spend on the physical stuff.
View ArticleA Feature Film, Starring Google
In "The Internship," a comedy movie starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as Google interns, Google's products and perks make cameo appearances and some lines sound as if they were written by the...
View ArticleAmazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos
Amazon, embroiled in a standoff with a book publisher, is using the same hardball techniques with new movies from Warner Home Video.
View ArticleAmazon Takes the Muppets Off the Shelf
Disney is the latest entertainment company to have orders of its forthcoming releases blocked by the retailer.
View ArticleDaily Report: Netflix Aims at Hollywood’s New Releases
Netflix and the Weinstein Company said that they planned to release a sequel to the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” simultaneously on Netflix and a select number of Imax theaters.
View ArticleIn Town Hall, Zuckerberg Discusses T-Shirts, Telephones and That Facebook Movie
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, fielded questions from users of the social network on Thursday in a live town hall format, addressing things as diverse as the company's mobile...
View ArticleMicrosoft Billionaire Reboots Seattle Movie Temple
What do you do when you are a billionaire and a movie buff? If you are Paul G. Allen, you turn the iconic theater you already own into a state-of-the-art theater.
View ArticleMath Anxiety: Why Hollywood Makes Robots of Alan Turing and Other Geniuses
The visionary who stares at formulas written on walls or mirrors -- or better yet, thin air -- has become a Hollywood trope. So has the depiction of the genius who can't connect with real people.
View ArticleDaily Report: Hackers Steal Movies and Executive Salary Data From Sony
The breach exposed two things the movie industry loathes — the piracy of films and details about executive compensation — and sent a ripple of dread across Hollywood.
View ArticleVPNs Dissolve National Boundaries Online, for Work and Movie-Watching
A security technology meant to keep communications private is being used to do things like stream Netflix in countries where it is not available.
View ArticleDaily Report: Hollywood Increases Its Digital Security Efforts
To better protect scripts, casting decisions, budgets and other sensitive files, filmmakers are turning to new tools to thwart hackers and block prying eyes.
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