The box office talk is all about Hunger Games and by the looks of things; its success is owed in large part to online ticket seller Fandango. According to a report, Fandango accounted for more 22% of all ticket sold in the opening weekend of the movie which grossed a whopping $155 in its first [...]
April 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
Fresh on the heels of unveiling a new look, popular video sharing website Vimeo is unveiling a new CEO. Taking over at the helm is industry vet and former executive of AOL and Yahoo, Kerry Trainor. Trainor will be filling the shoes left vacant by Dae Mellencamp, who despite vacating the CEO spot will stay [...]
April 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
The good folks over at Zynga certainly don’t like to sit still and already on their second public offering. The company submitted a new S-1 filing with the SEC recently and outlined a few things dealing with shares and recent purchases that were made. According to the filing, Zynga paid $180 million for the recent [...]
April 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
Competition watchdogs in China don’t necessarily work the as they do in the States, and this fact makes for some interesting dealings in China’s tech sector. Recently tow of the country’s biggest online video platforms merged in a deal worth over $1 billion. The deal that was struck between Youku and Tudou now see a [...]
March 30th, 2012 by Anthony West
Much of what becomes established on the internet is first pioneered by the web’s earliest adopters—Americans. This sort of explains that Americans are at the vanguard of the video-watching culture that is emerging on the internet. A new study conducted by comScore into the video-watching phenomenon of Americans is revealing that US internet users watched [...]
March 29th, 2012 by Anthony West
YouTube is fast transitioning from a pure user-generated content platform to one where production pieces are near-Hollywood in quality. The world’s largest video sharing platform has a section called “YouTube Shows” and it has recently got an infusion of content. YouTube announced via a blog post that the YouTube Shows section has been updated with [...]
March 29th, 2012 by Anthony West
Comic favorites hitting the big screen is nothing new, but some comics hit the big screen in a really big way and the Avengers is one such comic that has been highly anticipated for a long time. Well, the wait is over for the movie will make its debut soon and if the trailer is [...]
March 20th, 2012 by Anthony West
Social gaming is big business; so big that as an industry, it generated over $2.3 billion in virtual goods sales over the course of 2011. The figure was part of data released by PlaySpan, the company which conducted the study on social gaming and resulting revenues that are being generated. According to the study, 1 [...]
March 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Aside from being a pop mega star, Lady Gaga takes interaction with her fans very seriously. Which is why, I suppose, she now has the largest following in Twitter—a whopping 20 million followers. Gaga reached this milestone last Saturday and is now a commanding 6.5 million followers ahead of pop rival, Brittany Spears. In real [...]
March 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Justin Bieber is one of the most popular artists in the world today. Girl’s love him for his voice, his hair, his smile, his songs, etc, etc. People all over the world fell in love with his story when his movie “Never Say Never” came out. He has numerous songs that play on the radio [...]
March 15th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
It seems to be all going south for Netflix. A few months ago we wrote about the exodus of nearly 1 million subscribers, in large part to the over 60% increase in subscription fees across the board. Early numbers coming out Netflix had suggested that the DVD rental and online streaming content site would be [...]
March 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
Apparently a former employee for Zynga, an engineer to be exact, is releasing private information regarding the company since his release from the company. He has been posting this information to Reddit. He has a lot to say about the company but also about how much money some players spent on games like Mafia Wars. [...]
March 5th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
Ever since MySpace got slaughtered by the juggernaut that is Facebook, many have written it off completely, even with the subsequent sale of the former social networking giant by Rupert Murdock. But the latest ComScore data is suggesting that MySpace may be far from dead—at least not in America. Based on the latest data from [...]
March 2nd, 2012 by Anthony West
So MegaUpload.com is in more hot water with the law, but there’s a twist. It turns out the once heavily trafficked file sharing website doesn’t boast quite the number of registered users it once advertised. Initially only charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering and criminal [...]
March 1st, 2012 by Anthony West
There was a time when a trip to a UK shopping centre to pick up a CD or DVD led you right through the doors of HMV, or even one of Branson’s Virgin Stores. But that was before online merchants like Amazon made it more convenient to get these items. HMV stores still exist on [...]
February 24th, 2012 by Anthony West
The whole web 2.0 movement has spawned the growth of new sectors; new paradigms and all have drawn entrepreneurs in search of gold. But many are questioning what is driving this search, and more importantly, the investor funding that seems to flow so easily into these sectors. A good example of this new rush to [...]
February 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
For many in the tech space, it’s only a matter of time before the TV is banished from the living room and is replaced by large screens hooked up the internet. At the heart of that very gloomy picture for Television is the rise and rise of video. Many predict it will account for more [...]
February 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Somehow along the way, Blip.tv lost much of its appeal as the web’s number ne destination for series video, but the site has quietly maintained its focus. So much so that it still manages to attract investor funding. The company recently raised over $12 million in a fresh funding round, to the surprise of many [...]
February 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
