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Expect Failure From Hulu: NBCU Chief
The first positive points we’ve awarded to Hulu come for pure honesty with George Kliavkoff, NBC Universal’s chief digital officer telling a crowd at OMMA New York Monday that they…
Is Hulu Doomed? NBC To Begin Offering Free Downloads
NBC will start offering its top television shows as ad-supported downloads this fall (autumn) from the NBC Direct website. The announcement is a major setback for the NBC/ News Corp…
Hulu Makes First Acquisition; Chinese Video Startup To Form Backbone Of New Service
We haven’t heard much about Bejing-based startup Mojiti before this week. They popped up in the TechCrunch Forums in January and are notable because the founder, Eric Feng, was previously…
Lulu To Hulu: Cease And Desist
Online self publishing company Lulu has filed suit against the NBC/ News Corp joint venture Hulu for trademark infringement, unfair and deceptive trade practices and for federal cyberpiracy. Lulu alleges…
NBC Bails on iTunes
The New York Times is reporting that NBC will not renew its contract to distribute television shows via Apple’s iTunes service. The agreement was set to autorenew at the end…
Coming Soon: Hulu Branded Panty Hose. Oh, And they Lifted Their Mission Statement From Google
Hulu finally announced its name today after a five month wait. Unfortunately, the name, which has some translation issues, may not have been researched properly before the final decision was…
Hulu Translates To "Cease" and "Desist" in Swahili. Oops.
Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March. CEO Jason Kilar says the name “captures…
Clown Co. Gets Website and New Name: Hulu
This morning news broke that NBC Universal and News Corporation’s joint video venture, hitherto dubbed “Clown Co.”, is now to be known as Hulu. Initially, I was a bit concerned…
Wow – Clown Co. Got That $1 billion Valuation (still nameless though)
Is ANYONE at NBC or News Corp. embarrassed that they can’t agree on a name, even a working name (or a website), for their new Not-A-YouTube-Killer video joint venture? It…
Everyone's Gunning For YouTube
The focus and experimentation on IPTV is switching away from watching short clips on YouTube to watching full length shows on downloadable TV applications like Joost, Babelgum, Veoh TV ,…
Dear Clown Co.: Name This Thing Fast Before It's Too Late
For the last twenty-four hours we’ve been reporting a nearly non-stop stream of facts (and some speculation) about the new, unnamed News Corp./NBC Universal joint venture to launch later this…
Confirmed: TV Networks Launch New Company To Counter Perceived Google/YouTube Threat
Update: My real time notes from the media conference call are here. The rumors of a joint venture to counter the perceived Google-YouTube threat, dubbed “Clown Co.” by Google executives,…
News Corp, NBC May Announce Distributed YouTube Competitor Today; Google Scoffs
There have been rumors of a TV network led joint venture to compete with YouTube for months – the first time we heard it was just a couple of days…