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The strong performance of the films “Suicide Squad” and “Sully,” combined with increased HBO and Turner TV revenue that was driven by subscription growth, helped Time Warne... More

The business of Major League Baseball continues to grow at an extraordinary pace through the expansion of their digital streaming infrastructure efforts. It was announced that D... More

Wang Jianlin, with an estimated personal net worth of $32.6 billion, says he's pleased with Wanda's progress on the exhibition end of the business (with chains on four continents, ... More

IBM has made another acquisition to beef up Watson, a week after it announced a raft of new features and milestones for its artificial intelligence effort: it has acquired a busine... More

Fun Academy Motion Pictures, an innovator in educational entertainment for digital cinemas, has partnered with award-winning animation house Mikros Image, a Technicolor company, to... More

Just three years ago, Vine appeared to be a central player in the future of "snackable content." Its short-form style of messaging even aired in a Monday Night Football TV spot. Bu... More

Dubbed ‘a new way to bring creations to life,’ creators can now stream video to backers to enable regular updates and feedback, potentially increasing the transparency of the p... More

Virtual reality will be a bustling industry by the middle of the next decade, but getting to that point will take some time, according to a study released today. The new 10-year in... More

The exponential growth of eSports is undeniable, especially as it continues to be embraced by big-name entities such as ESPN, Amazon and many others. Not surprisingly, Facebook too... More

My hunch is that both Fox and Disney will include some of their most essential channels — ESPN, Fox Sports 1, Fox News, Disney, etc. — in the base Hulu package, and then provid... More

According to a new report, digital game spending is well over three times that of eBooks, and a lot of that spending is happening on consoles and PC/Mac, where players spend around... More

Reed Hastings: "The highest-end TV, it’s about $10 million an hour for the production budget. But in movies the high-end budgets are $100 million of production cost for an hour. ... More

Discovery Communications has linked arms with Major League Baseball’s BAMTech to form BAMTech Europe, a streaming-video technology provider catering to broadcasters and OTT playe... More

Hulu said Nov. 1 that it’s inked deals to offer Disney and Fox programming as part of its coming live streaming TV service. The virtual multichannel video programming distributor... More

Sony Corp., home to the world's second-largest record label and largest publishing company in Sony/ATV, announced a positive slew of numbers for its music division today. As the co... More

Deluxe has named former Google Head of Global Language Services Derek McKellar President of Deluxe Localization. He joins the Company to lead the new organization formed by Deluxe�... More

A bit lost amid last week’s blizzard of news (e.g. AT&T-Time Warner deal, Google Fiber pausing, Vessel being sold and closed, Vine shutting down) was that Google’s strong Q3 re... More

You can now cast Harry Potter spells from your Android phone, thanks to Google and Warner Bros. Pictures, who have teamed up to promote the new movie, “Fantastic Beasts and Where... More

If you build it, will they come? That’s the question that newly launched Filmstruck must face. The Criterion Collection and Turner Classic Movies’ launch of the new streaming s... More

There's something else it might do to improve profits and shore up its power: mimic Netflix by becoming a producer as well as a distributor -- and take other steps to bring more mu... More