Netflix Adds Miramax Movies
Netflix has finalized a previously reported deal to bring “several hundred” old Miramax movies like “Pulp Fiction” to the rental service. The deal is non-exclusive and doesn’t cover new titles, since...
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Don't Look Away From the Devastation of the Netflix Price Hike (Video)
This is perhaps the most perfect commentary on the overwrought hue and cry over Netflix raising its prices recently on DVD-by-mail rentals. While any hike on costs is annoying, I actually just had to...
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Viral Video: Airbnb's Apartment Trashing Gets Taiwanesed (Of Course!)
Airbnb recently raised $112 million in funding, but it’s not getting off the hook quite yet for a recent incident in which a property listed on its site got trashed by renters. The incident was, no...
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Warner Bros. Pulls Back the Curtain on Flixster Collections, Its Ambitious...
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes spent a lot of yesterday’s earnings call discussing the company’s future in digital video. Here’s one of his focal points: Flixster Collections, a social movie portal his...
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More AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV...
After our grand tour of Asia last week — with stops in Korea and Japan — it seems like a perfect time to update the speaker list for our upcoming AsiaD conference in Hong Kong in October. As Walt...
View ArticleNetflix Reportedly Eyeing Spain for Next Expansion
The next stop on the Netflix tour could be Spain. Trade journal Screen Daily (via Deadline) cites a single source — the head of a Spanish industry group — which says the video rental company “had...
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Move Over, Craigslist: Airbnb Launches Sublets for Longer-Term Rentals
Airbnb, the fast-growing online accommodations service, is expanding an offering to allow users to more easily book longer rentals of a month or more. The San Francisco-based company said in a press...
View ArticleYouTube Movie Rentals in Canada, Too
Apparently it’s Web video international expansion day: A few hours after Hulu opened for business in Japan, YouTube has started offering rental movies in Canada (last year, Netflix headed north, too)....
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My Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO -- Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?
The firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz leaves open one of the bigger and more difficult jobs in tech — one that has taken its toll on many. Nonetheless, rapper Snoop Dogg stepped right up to the Twitter...
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Chegg Buys Zinch in Another Move Toward a "Social Education Platform"
Chegg — best known for online rentals of textbooks to college students — said it has just bought Zinch, a start-up that links high school students and college recruiters. Terms of the deal were not...
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Email: Chamath Palihapitiya Decries Airbnb's Recent $112M Funding for Founder...
Here’s some electric weekend reading for those interested in the push and pull between venture investors and start-ups in the frothy Web 2.0 environment. In an email to Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian...
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A Hollywood Experiment: Paramount Streams "Transformers" to Your PC
If you want to watch “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” at home, you’ve got a lot of options. Here’s an unusual one from Paramount: The studio is renting streams direct to consumers, via its own site....
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Hidden Tools Find What You Want On YouTube
Have you seen YouTube lately, staying on the site for longer than the three minutes it takes to watch the video link that a friend emailed? Chances are the answer will be no. Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’...
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Here's Why Hollywood Needs UltraViolet -- Or Something -- To Work
Hollywood is rolling out UltraViolet, its homegrown cloud/locker scheme that may or may not compete with the ones Apple and Amazon are rolling out. But the studios very much need one of these things to...
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Hot for "Bad Teacher": Sony Spikes Sales With Early Offers on iTunes, Amazon
Hollywood is trying to figure out how to get people to buy more movies instead of renting them. Sony might have an answer: Sell the flicks on iTunes, Amazon and other digital outlets before viewers can...
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Airbnb Hires Former Yahoo Legal Eagle Belinda Johnson as General Counsel
Airbnb, the San Francisco online vacation rentals start-up, said it has hired a key former Yahoo lawyer, Belinda Johnson, as its new general counsel. The legal issues at Airbnb are both interesting...
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Digital Game Revenue Wasn't Enough to Offset Broader Industry Declines in Q3
Revenue from mobile and social games, among other categories, is growing, but not at a fast enough clip to offset the declines witnessed in the traditional games market. The NPD Group released a new...
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Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix, Redbox, Blockbuster Wait Longer for New...
Want to watch a new movie just out on DVD from Warner Brothers? You’re going to have to buy it, or wait even longer to get it from Netflix or other disc renters. A new deal between Time Warner’s movie...
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Amazon Brings Its Videos to the iPad
Amazon has been ramping up its digital video store for years. But until now it hasn’t been able to get the videos it rents and sells onto the iPad. Now it can: The “Amazon Instant Video” player is...
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Checking In With the Natty VCs of Social+Capital (Video)
Recently, I paid a visit to the very elegant yet still hipster offices of Social+Capital Partnership in Palo Alto, Calif. As many know already, the venture fund was founded last year by the...
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Nintendo's Wii U Outperforming the Original Wii, Only Because It Costs More
Nintendo’s Wii U has managed to outperform the launch of its original Wii, at least in terms of revenue, but only because it costs more. In the U.S., Nintendo sold 460,000 Wii U devices in December...
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To VC or Not to VC: Former Square COO Rabois Leaning Toward Khosla Ventures Job
Keith Rabois, the former Square COO who left the company in the midst of unproven allegations of personal misconduct, is weighing an offer to join Silicon Valley venture firm Khosla Ventures,...
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Survey Says: Despite Yahoo Ban, Most Tech Companies Support Work-From-Home...
Last week, a fierce debate erupted over a range of social networks and in the media about a story we posted on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s new decree that employees at the Silicon Valley Internet...
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In New York Fight, Airbnb Says It Has Proof That Hosts Rent Out Their Own Homes
Airbnb is mounting an economic impact charm offensive in response to scrutiny from regulators in New York. The company said today that it generated $632 million in yearly economic activity in New York...
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Chegg Set to Go Public Tomorrow in Next Post-Twitter Tech IPO
Call it the Twitter effect — Silicon Valley will see another IPO of a consumer-focused online effort tomorrow, when Chegg is set to go public. Many people familiar with the situation said the Santa...
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