Remember when deciding you wanted to watch something on Netflix meant adding it to your queue and then waiting for a red envelope to show up in the mail? Though it may seem like we’ve always lived in a streaming world, there are still people who rent DVDs and BluRays from Netflix — about 4.2 million of them — and now they have their very own app to make the process easier. [More]
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Facebook To Pay For Live Videos From Internet Celebrities
By 7.19.16
YouTube stars and Instagram aficionados may soon pop-up on your Facebook feed in real-time: the social network is reportedly shelling out $2.2 million to dozens of internet personalities to create content for the recently launched Facebook Live. [More]
Amazon Launches Its Own YouTube-Like Service: Amazon Video Direct
By 5.10.16
Amazon already squares off against Netflix and iTunes in the streaming video subscription and rental marketplaces, so it’s probably not a shock that Amazon now has YouTube in its sights with a new platform for amateur moviemakers called Amazon Direct Video. [More]
Verizon Completes $4.4B Acquisition Of AOL
By 6.23.15
It’s not often you hear about a shotgun wedding between two tech companies, but that’s apparently what happened for Verizon and AOL, as the recently betrothed said today that they had officially completed a $4.4 billion acquisition proposed just a month ago. [More]
Verizon Buys AOL For $4.4 Billion To Create Video Content, Ad-Sharing Mega-Company
By 5.12.15
Old tech and new tech are coming together in a massive $4.4 billion deal, with mobile service powerhouse Verizon Communications buying the brand of the ’90s AOL — a deal that gives the country’s largest mobile phone operator a stronger foothold in the race to create ad-content that targets customers as they move from desktops to mobile devices. [More]
