ResearchApple and Beats: The human factor
What Beats has begun to build is essentially a platform, on which people in the music business can engage with groups of listeners. Read more »
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What Beats has begun to build is essentially a platform, on which people in the music business can engage with groups of listeners. Read more »
From the review of Comcast’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable to the FCC’s proposed reboot of its overturned net neutrality rules, policymakers are playing a key role in shaping the… Read more »
Two co-founders of TiVo want to give TV another shot. This time, their new product is all about streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Read more »
Spotify’s payments to record companies and publishers are pegged to its gross revenue, and increase roughly in proportion to the increase in Spotify’s user base. Performance royalties paid to artists, however,… Read more »
Spotify is closing in on another $200 million in funding from Technology Crossover Ventures, a VC firm that previously backed Facebook, (S FB) Netflix (S NFLX) and Groupon, according to a report… Read more »
In recent months, unlimited entertainment services for kids have proliferated. We took a look at the options in two categories: Ebooks and video. Read more »
Viewers can stream over-the-air TV services like Aereo in New York but not California. The case could go to the Supreme Court – but not until 2015 or later, leaving consumers… Read more »
Under a Parliamentary committee’s recommendations, consumers in Australia would legally be able to access content that has not been licensed in that territory. Read more »
The new High Efficiency Video Coding standard can support much higher resolutions than H.264, making it possible to encode up to 8K video (7680 x 4320). But its biggest impact is… Read more »
The hard question for Apple is whether it can build a meaningful paid-subscription business without grossly cannibalizing its current per-track paid download business. There are very few examples of those two… Read more »