Internet video giant Netflix announced a defensive maneuver on Monday designed to fend off famed corporate raider Carl Icahn, who has amassed a sizable stake in the company and suggested it should be sold.
Not exact matches
On Tuesday, Time Warner - owned Warner Bros. announced its new licensing agreement with iQiyi, the streaming
video platform owned by Chinese
Internet search
giant Baidu.
Giant companies like Disney, Google or Netflix can handily afford to pay
Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon for special, faster lanes to send
video and other content to their customers.
On Tuesday, telecommunications
giant Verizon announced that it plans to buy AOL, which has in recent years transitioned from an
Internet gateway to a provider of online
video services, content, and most notably, online ads.
The media and cable
giant reported quarterly earnings on Wednesday that beat analyst expectations, and revenue that topped estimates, as the company grew its customer base in high - speed
internet and business services, offsetting lost customers in
video services.
But Tian and others say Google has lost basically all ground in most of its major services, especially search and
video streaming, to Chinese players such as
Internet giants Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba and Qihoo 360.
HERALD TRIBUNE — Dec 17 — A handful of
giant media companies, like NBC Universal, News Corp., Viacom and possibly CBS, are close to announcing a new Web site that will feature some of their best - known television programming and other clips in an attempt to build a business for distributing
video on the
Internet to rival YouTube.
These contraptions, which go by brand names like SMART Boards and Promethean ActivBoards and cost about $ 5,000 a pop, are
giant computerized screens that crackle with
video, audio, and
Internet connectivity.
Chinese
video game and
internet giant Tencent will start imposing time restrictions on young Honour of Kings players to allay fears surrounding
video game addiction.
People lose whole afternoons to the
internet's
giant library of
videos, so we might as well get something interesting out of it, right?
Pushing through the weird bit of the
internet to find unwashed gems, the ARKA group screen a collection of strangely compelling
video clips and blog pages that explore the liminal territories of the world wide web, including messy play,
giant CGI slugs and Philip Guston paintings amongst other things.
A service launched by China's
internet giant Baidu can make you money if you are willing to share your desktop computer's spare computing power for faster downloads, smoother online
videos and maybe even mining bitcoin.