Media & Entertainment

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Pirate Bay has been ordered by a Ditch court to close its operations in the Netherlands. The court noted that for every day the Pirate Bay kept operating in the country it would be forced to pay a $42,000 fine. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. New York representative Edolphus Towns announced that he plans to introduce a bill to ban file sharing networks on government computers. The goal is to eliminate peer-to-peer networks, which are easily hackable, from networks and computers connected to the government infrastructure. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NEWSFLASH: Ben Silverman, the co-chairman of NBC Universal Entertainment, is leaving the company to start up a new venture in partnership with Barry Diller’s media and Internet company, IAC. The news was announced by IAC and Mr. Silverman Monday morning. At Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Amidst extreme turmoil in both the advertising business and its readership, The New York Times managed to eek out a profit. The company reported a net income of $39.1 million, up $18 million year over year. While the news is huge Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yahoo unveiled a redesigned homepage today. The new dashboard centric Yahoo.com combines Yahoo content with third party sites and applications to give users a more engaging experience. Yahoo’s goal is to integrate the most popular web-based sites and services up into Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter users have experienced hacks in their account that have been penetrated through Google Apps. Google’s Gmail, Docs & Spreadsheets, Calendar are accessible through Twitter, however, for the third time this year, a hacker has received access to a Twitter account Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. What do you do if you’re in a bank when it’s being robed? Tweet about it, of course. And that’s just what Annemarie Dooling did yesterday in NY. “My bank was just held up – with me in it. HSBC 34 Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Netflix stock enjoyed a bump yesterday as rumors flew that Amazon may acquire the company. Sources say purchasing Netflix could increase Amazon’s digital subscription business. Shares of both companies were up approximately 5% on the news. Not one to be out Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Nielsen is reporting that over 31 million people viewed Michael Jackson’s funeral on television. While the number is very high, it does not take into account the millions of viewers who streamed the coverage through a variety of streaming sites, nor Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Pandora and other online radio companies received great news yesterday when the Copyright Royalty Board agreed to a new set of royalty regulations for streaming sites. The board ruled that Internet radio stations will each pay SoundExchange based on how much Continue Reading →