If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is close to raising $100 million at a billion dollar valuation. The $100 million round is a significant increase over the $50 million the micro-blogging service planned to raise in its last round. Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Wall Street Journal clarified reports that it will charge for mobile content, noting that content delivered on smartphone applications will be a mix of free and paid material. Despite CEO Rupert Murdoch saying every iPhone and BlackBerry user would have Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Rupert Murdoch told a Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference that iPhone & BlackBerry users will be charged for the Wall Street Journal. Even if you already have a subscription to the Journal, users will have to pay $1 a week for access Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Motorola unveiled its Google smartphone yesterday. Dubbed the CLIQ, like all Google Android based phones, will only be available on T-Mobile. While the operating system is similar to that of the regular Android desktop, CLIQ’s interface will include a “social networking Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After a lengthy legal battle, an arbitrator has ruled that Jeremy Piven did not breach his contract when he left the Broadway production of Speed the Plow. The controversial case came to after Piven abruptly left the production, claiming he had Continue Reading →
Last week I asked a simple question, What is broadband? The technical definition is easy, however defining broadband in terms of public policy is anything but. As you know, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 directed the FCC to submit a National Broadband Plan to Congress by February 17, 2010 that addresses broadband deployment, adoption, affordability, and the use of broadband to advance solutions to national priorities, including health care, education, energy, public safety, job creation, investment, and others. So, in the spirit of getting a Socratic dialog going, I am asking you to think about what the United States needs to do to be a digital super-power in the 21st century. Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. iTunes now owns 25% of the retail music business in the US. While compact disc’s still account for 65% of recorded music sales, 35% of music sales are now exclusively digital. The NPD Group, who conducted the report, noted that sales Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Verizon Wireless has begun testing its 4G network in Boston and Seattle. The tests will be Verizon’s first off the spectrum it purchased from the FCC. Verizon is scheduled to begin rolling out the technology to consumers next year. News Corp. Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBCU, Time Warner, News Corp, Viacom, CBS, Disney and Discovery Communications are teaming to create a rival to the Nielsen metric system. The media conglomerate is also working with major advertisers like AT&T and Proctor & Gamble, as well as ad Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Redbox, the DVD rental kiosk company, is suing 20th Century Fox for delaying distribution of Fox films for a month after DVD release. Redbox President Mitch Lowe claims the studio is “attempting to prohibit timely consumer access to its new release Continue Reading →