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GigaOm Nov 23 09 Two-year-old Hulu, which has quickly become Americans’ preferred method of consuming TV online, is now blocking startups from embedding its video library. But while Hulu is now (mostly) unfriendly to startup video aggregators, it’s still sharing its videos with its corporate parents’ friends: the big web portals and MSOs. Put together, the retroactive [...] Full story...
What a week! Most of the world was obsessing over the mother of all IPOs -- Facebook. So no surprise, I had to include some good writing on the subject.
A survey conducted by BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield shows that Hollywood studios would likely make more revenue with the collapse of movie windows.
Report after report points to AT&T marrying Dish Network after Ma Bell’s forced break up with T-Mobile, but given the companies’ increasing belligerence, you wouldn’t think that was the case.
The New York Times has signed up over 300,000 people to its digital subscription plan, but that doesn't even come close to making up for continued declines in ad revenue.
In the last couple months, New York has attracted former San Francisco start-up Qwiki, PlaceIQ from Colorado and recent 500 Start-Ups graduate Snapette of Boston, which spent the last half year in Silicon Valley.
Video discovery startup Taboola has been growing fast, adding top publishing partners like The Washington Post, as well as expanding into the live streaming video vertical.
The Verizon Galaxy Nexus LTE handset is reportedly no longer a Google-supported developer phone, which could have software update implications.
While 2011 was a bad year for Hewlett-Packard, it was a good one for chairman Ray Lane, at least financially.
Peter Sunde, one of the Pirate Bay founders convicted of aiding copyright infringement, has told GigaOM that the group could go to the European court, after Sweden's top judges refused to hear their appeal against a guilty verdict handed down in 2009.
Facebook's S-1 filing shows the company is all about infrastructure. The ad revenue and user experience it relies on to exist mean Facebook can't afford to take it easy on IT, which means shareholders and users will both find plenty of reasons to get upset.