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Raydiant, a startup promising to turn TVs into interactive digital signs, is making several announcements today — a new company name, a new CEO, new partners and $7 million in…
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Somehow, ‘Dark Fate’ got me excited about the Terminator again
The release of a new Terminator sequel has become a familiar ritual: The latest filmmakers acknowledge the greatness of the first two movies, then mumble awkwardly about the other sequels — which are inevitably ignored, because they assure us that this time, they’ve created the sequel we’ve been waiting for. I can’t tell you whether…
4:33 pm PDT • October 22, 2019
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Daily Crunch: Facebook fights (some) election lies
9:13 am PDT • October 22, 2019
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Over the past year or two, Squarespace has been expanding beyond website-building with new products like email marketing and its first acquisition (of an online scheduling tool). Today, it’s announcing…
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Medium says it will compensate writers based on reading time, not claps
8:03 am PDT • October 22, 2019
Medium is announcing significant changes to its Partner Program, where subscribers pay for access to exclusive content, and the revenue gets split with writers. The biggest change is that writers…
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FT launches a new consulting arm focused on helping businesses use consumer data
9:00 pm PDT • October 21, 2019
As more and more news businesses turn to paywalls and subscriptions, The Financial Times looks like an early model and success story — a few months ago the organization announced…
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Digital ad spend reached $57.9B in the first half of 2019, but growth has slowed (IAB report)
8:09 am PDT • October 21, 2019
During the first six months of 2019, advertisers spent $57.9 billion on U.S. digital advertising, according to the latest report prepared by PwC for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (an online…
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Original Content podcast: ‘El Camino’ provides a quiet coda to ‘Breaking Bad’
2:04 pm PDT • October 20, 2019
When a TV show gets turned into a movie, it often represents a big change of pace, with a standalone plot, and a bigger budget, all made for a bigger…
Tilting Point announced yesterday that it has acquired Gondola, a company that aims to increase game monetization by optimizing in-game offers and video ads. Tilting Point CEO Kevin Segalla described…
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Daily Crunch: Zuckerberg has thoughts on free speech
11:44 am PDT • October 18, 2019
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YellowHeart allows musicians and concert organizers to take more control of resold tickets
9:05 am PDT • October 18, 2019
YellowHeart is trying to solve a problem that should be familiar to anyone who’s ever tried to buy a ticket for a popular concert: Those tickets will often get snatched…
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The Information will launch Ticker, a tech news app that costs $29 per year
9:30 am PDT • October 17, 2019
Since it was founded by journalist Jessica Lessin in 2013, The Information has stood out in the tech news landscape for its focus on an ad-free, subscription-driven business model (a…
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Tivo’s CEO explains how the company ‘fully embraces’ streaming
Does TiVo has a future beyond the DVR? Dave Shull certainly hopes so. The former Weather Channel CEO joined the company as president and CEO back in May, and when I spoke to him last month, he insisted that he’s excited and optimistic about the company’s prospects. In fact, he said the DVR business “is…
1:50 pm PDT • October 16, 2019
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Netflix Q3 earnings exceed estimates, despite disappointing US subscriber growth
1:46 pm PDT • October 16, 2019
Netflix’s Q3 financial report has given the company’s stock a boost in after-hours trading, with profits significantly exceeding analyst expectations. The streaming giant reported revenue of $5.24 billion, up 31%…
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Shonda Rhimes signs podcast deal with iHeartMedia
12:41 pm PDT • October 16, 2019
Shondaland, the production company founded by “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” creator Shonda Rhimes, has signed a deal to create a new slate of podcasts for iHeartRadio over the next three…
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Daily Crunch: LinkedIn now supports real-world events
9:40 am PDT • October 16, 2019
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AMC Theatres launches its own on-demand streaming service
12:40 pm PDT • October 15, 2019
AMC Theatres announced a new service today called AMC Theatres On Demand — a marketplace where members of AMC’s Stubs loyalty program can buy or rent individual movies to watch…
After the onstage presentation at Made by Google 2019, we got our hands on a Pixel 4. In this video, you can watch us do a quick run-through of the…
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Annie Leibovitz used the Pixel 4 to shoot a new collection of photos
8:35 am PDT • October 15, 2019
Google ended today’s hardware event by going deep on the photo technology in its new Pixel 4, and brought out someone who’s actually been using the camera — legendary photographer…
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Newly rebranded Thimble raises $22M to bring flexible insurance to the gig economy
3:00 am PDT • October 15, 2019
Thimble, which offers flexible, short-term insurance to small businesses and freelancers, is announcing that it has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by IAC. Until today,…
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Daily Crunch: Facebook has a weak stance on political ads
9:56 am PDT • October 14, 2019
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DoorDash is opening its first shared commissary kitchen in Redwood City, Calif., bringing new delivery and pickup options to customers in Peninsula towns, including Atherton, Menlo Park and Palo Alto.…
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Original Content podcast: For better or for worse, ‘The Politician’ is absolutely bonkers
2:11 pm PDT • October 13, 2019
We all agree: “The Politician” is a crazy show that tries to do everything at once. After all, why settle for a fast-talking satire about a high school election; a…
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Apple creates its own TV studio, will produce WWII drama ‘Masters of Air’
3:03 pm PDT • October 11, 2019
While Apple has a long list of new programming lined up for its TV+ subscription streaming service, the company won’t actually own any of the announced shows — until now.…
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Apester unveils a new Story Strip format for online publishers
6:43 am PDT • October 11, 2019
Apester, which helps digital publishers add interactivity to their content, is rolling out a new format called the Story Strip. CEO and co-founder Moti Cohen told me that the Story…
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IAC outlines its plans for a Match Group spin-off
6:01 am PDT • October 11, 2019
Digital media holding company IAC has taken the next step toward spinning off Match Group, with a proposal outlining what that process would look like. Match Group (which owns Tinder,…
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Original Content podcast: Malka Older on reviving the clones of ‘Orphan Black’ for Serial Box
4:25 pm PDT • October 10, 2019
“Orphan Black” ended its five-season run back in 2017, but Serial Box is currently continuing the story with “Orphan Black: The Next Chapter,” a weekly series of e-books and audiobooks.…
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