Peter Kafka in Mobile on February 18 at 10:40 am PT
Our long national nightmare, kaput.
Ethan Smith and Bob Davis, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on February 18 at 5:26 am PT
Getting more films into Chinese market has been a top priority for Hollywood.
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Peter Kafka in Commerce on February 17 at 3:23 pm PT
Groupon has acquired Hyperpublic, a New York-based start-up that provides location-based information developers can use to build their own applications. Hyperpublic, which raised a $1.15 million seed round in 2010,
announced the deal on its own site, but didn’t disclose a purchase price. CEO Jordan Cooper says some of the company’s 10 employees will move on to Groupon, and that he’ll work for the daily deals company in some capacity. But he says he’ll also continue on at his other job, as a general partner at
Lerer Ventures.
Peter Kafka in Dive Into Media on February 17 at 10:07 am PT
“The New Yorker — you roll it up, you put it in your bag. It’s quite easy; it’s pretty good technology.”
Peter Kafka in Media on February 17 at 7:35 am PT
If you try hard, Reed Hastings will let you pay him for access to DVDs by mail. But he’d be happier if you stuck with streaming.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 16 at 4:00 pm PT
Twitter’s cautious entry into advertising is picking up velocity.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 16 at 11:20 am PT
Narrative Science, the start-up that turns baseball box scores into automated stories, tries the same trick, using Twitter. Very interesting.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 16 at 10:11 am PT
Last year you could even watch the games on an iPad app without paying a penny. That’s all over now.
Peter Kafka in Mobile on February 16 at 6:36 am PT
Tablets do all sorts of amazing things. Including keeping your kids occupied.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 15 at 4:19 pm PT
Big Media is making lots of money selling reruns to digital players like Netflix. Now it’s starting to help the new guys make their own stuff, too.
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