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storytext This week the NBA tipped off its new season with the biggest athlete in the world getting his third championship ring. On the same night, Major League Baseball had game 1 of the World Series between two teams that haven’t won a title in a combined 174 years. And the NFL’s big game of…
storytext Fox News viewers really do see the world differently. New data shows that Fox loyalists, when compared to the public at large, are far more pessimistic about America’s future; are far more critical of President Obama’s performance; are far more fearful of Hillary Clinton; and are more forgiving of Donald Trump. The sharp differences…
storytext 5 stunning stats about Netflix Netflix is once again a Wall Street darling after reporting strong earnings and solid international subscriber growth. But could that make the red hot company a takeover target in the rapidly changing media world? Source: Why Disney should buy Netflix instead of Twitter
storytext The long-rumored marriage of USA Today owner Gannett and LA Times publisher Tronc is suddenly in doubt. Shares of Tronc (TRNC) plummeted 28% on Thursday following a report that banks have pulled financing for the company’s potential takeover by rival Gannett (GCI). Source: Tronc shares crash 28% on Gannett deal fears
storytext There’s an apartment building on Vine Street in Hollywood that is famously home to several of the most well-known faces of Vine, a social media platform that Twitter announced on Thursday it would be shutting down indefinitely. The news came as a shock to some, but the 6-second video-making residents of the building were…
Google is stepping up its efforts to serve speedy content to mobile internet users with its Accelerated Mobile Pages, but the initiative is getting mixed reviews from publishers as some worry about its impact on their advertising revenue. Google unveiled AMP about a year ago and hundreds of companies are now publishing AMP versions of…
Image by Jim Cooke/Photo courtesy Jody Goldstein Jennifer Frey drank herself to death. Frey’s obituary in the Washington Post, her last full-time employer, merely gave “multiple organ failure” as the cause of her March 26 death. But alcohol killed her as surely as a bullet killed Lincoln. She died abusing a drug that kills millions…
Apple Inc. executives had every reason for optimism when they approached Walt Disney Co. in early 2015 to join the streaming television service Apple planned to launch. Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger is an Apple director and had said he was keen to strike a deal. Disney, which owns channels such as ESPN and ABC,…
Toy Unboxings and other kid videos like Nursery Rhymes like the Finger Family or live action skits with characters such as Elsa and Spiderman are a very weird class of videos on youtube. They can sometimes get hundreds of millions of views and it seems pretty baffling, but even this phenomena can be explained. Some…
GIF GTA V is rated M, meaning it is intended for people aged 17 and above. And yet, on YouTube, some people use GTA V to make shows for children, some of which get millions of views per episode. Kids are big business on Youtube, and many of the largest channels on the service cater…