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Talent drain
Very smart point from Asymco analyst Horace Dediu regarding the real impact of shifting media consumption patterns on legacy gatekeepers. He estimates that iTunes’ average revenue per user (ARPU) has...
View ArticleXbox One takes over Input 1
Since the official unveiling of Microsoft’s Xbox One next-generation game console this week, more than one commentator has noted its resemblance to the ultimate TV device described by Steve Jobs to his...
View ArticleIs Sony giving away the store with PlayStation 4?
Sony is certainly winning the PR war with Microsoft at E3, drawing sustained applause at its press event for the PlayStation 4’s $399 price point — a hundred bucks cheaper than the Xbox One — and...
View ArticleIntel worried about Dish
Eriq Gardner, who writes the Hollywood, Esq., blog for the Hollywood Reporter has been all over Dish’s ongoing battle with the networks and its efforts to break into the wireless business. And he was...
View ArticleWhere have you gone, AllVid?
Microsoft’s new Xbox One console can do a lot of things besides play games. It can control live TV; it can access over-the-top content; it can serve up second-screen and supplemental material while...
View ArticleFanhattan (sort of) pulls a Microsoft
Apropos this week’s Weekly Update, TV discovery app developer Fanhattan today unveiled Fan TV at the D11 conference, a nifty new set-top device with a very slick, touch-driven interface that, like the...
View ArticleThe price of success for Apple
Interesting juxtaposition right now between Apple’s ebook price-fixing trial underway in New York and its negotiations with the record companies and music publishers as it seeks to launch its...
View ArticleE-book wholesale revenues, 2002-2009
Industry-wide wholesale revenue for 2008 was $53.5 million, up from $31.8 million in 2007.
View ArticleA model for Facebook: Less Google, more Apple
Shares of Facebook started trading Friday, at a price that valued the company at $100 billion give or take a billion, the most valuable technology-related initial public offering in history. Not bad...
View ArticleToday in Connected Consumer
No company likes to be on the receiving end of an antitrust suit by the Department of Justice, but Apple is having trouble hiding its contempt for the government’s case against it over an alleged...
View ArticleNo third act likely in Viacom vs. YouTube drama
Five years after the case began, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday handed Viacom a tactical victory in its copyright infringement case against YouTube. In a 39-page opinion, the...
View ArticleToday in Connected Consumer
Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn abruptly resigned on Tuesday as the once-dominant electronics retailer struggles to cope with onslaught of digital competition from Amazon and other e-commerce sites. The...
View ArticleToday in Connected Consumer
There are a lot of odd things about the Justice Department’s antitrust investigation of Apple over e-book pricing, starting with the fact that Apple is not the dominant player in the e-book market,...
View ArticleToday in Connected Consumer
There’s no escaping the Apple antitrust story today. I’ll have more about it in tomorrow’s Weekly Update, but for now I’ll just note that there seems to be a fair amount of skepticism about the...
View ArticleWhich way OTA?
The Federal Communications Commission released its 15th annual report on video competition last week, which concluded, among other things, that the number of U.S. households relying exclusively on...
View ArticleCourt in Aereo case blesses Sling
The Second Circuit’s ruling in the Aereo case yesterday was obviously bad news for broadcasters, but it was particularly bad for Fox. In its separate lawsuit against Dish Network, Fox recently asked a...
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Talent drain
Very smart point from Asymco analyst Horace Dediu regarding the real impact of shifting media consumption patterns on legacy gatekeepers. He estimates that iTunes’ average revenue per user (ARPU) has...
View ArticleXbox One takes over Input 1
Since the official unveiling of Microsoft’s Xbox One next-generation game console this week, more than one commentator has noted its resemblance to the ultimate TV device described by Steve Jobs to his...
View ArticleIs Sony giving away the store with PlayStation 4?
Sony is certainly winning the PR war with Microsoft at E3, drawing sustained applause at its press event for the PlayStation 4’s $399 price point — a hundred bucks cheaper than the Xbox One — and...
View ArticleIntel worried about Dish
Eriq Gardner, who writes the Hollywood, Esq., blog for the Hollywood Reporter has been all over Dish’s ongoing battle with the networks and its efforts to break into the wireless business. And he was...
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