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HBO NOW Arrives Today On Amazon’s Appstore And Google Play, And Soon, Android...
HBO’s over-the-top streaming service aimed at cord cutters, HBO NOW, is today becoming available on Android devices and Amazon Fire tablet devices, the companies are announcing this morning, and will...
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What The Tech Bubble Means Outside Silicon Valley
It’s a place, a mindset, a nickname, a metonym, an innovation hub, a TV show and a standard against which all cradles of technology are measured. Silicon Valley prides itself on having a meta-status...
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Verizon Will Resell HBO NOW To Broadband Customers And Its Mobile Video...
HBO today announced its second deal with a pay TV provider, in this case Verizon*, to make its over-the-top streaming service HBO NOW available to broadband customers who don’t have a cable TV...
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HBO NOW Adds Support For Google’s Chromecast
HBO’s over-the-top streaming service may not be making money just yet, but it is rapidly expanding its footprint. Starting today, the service will support Google’s Chromecast for streaming from your...
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Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 11: Adding Showtime To Your Cord-Cutting...
2015 has been a good year to be a cord cutter. There are more ways than ever to watch television and movies over-the-top without a subscription to a cable or satellite TV service. And now, some of the...
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HBO NOW Is 2015’s Top Video Streaming App By Revenue, Study Finds
Video streaming apps that target cord cutters and those who want to watch video on their mobile phones are on the rise. According to new data from app store analytics firm App Annie, apps like the...
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TC Cribs: A Trip To TV Land With Hulu
Sit back, relax and don’t turn that dial. This week’s episode of Cribs takes us to the online television platform, Hulu. The company’s giant 90,000-square-foot headquarters sit betwixt Hollywood and...
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HBO NOW Goes Live On Roku
As some noticed when Roku this week announced its upgraded 4K-ready streaming media player, the Roku 4, the product packaging featured a highly-anticipated addition to Roku’s channel lineup: HBO NOW....
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Jon Stewart Is Coming To HBO In Four-Year Deal Focused On Short-Form Digital...
HBO, which launched its first over-the-top streaming service this year with the debut of HBO NOW, has just scored a notable new deal with former Daily Show host, Jon Stewart, who will be tasked with...
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Streaming Services Dominate 2016 Golden Globes, But Amazon Takes The Win
Streaming services showed up in force for Sunday night’s 73rd Golden Globe Awards, but it was Amazon’s year to shine. Though Netflix had led the pack this year with a total of eight nominations – even...
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HBO Takes On Netflix With A New Kids Section Featuring “Sesame Street” And More
HBO’s quest to more directly compete with streaming service rivals like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu is kicking off this week, with the company’s launch of a new “Kids” section in its mobile application...
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Netflix Couldn’t Look More Like A Global HBO
It’s been years in the making, but Netflix has finally pivoted to a premium channel for the web. It started as a DVD subscription service and evolved into a Spotify for movies. But now that Netflix is...
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HBO NOW, The Network’s Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000...
HBO NOW may have scored as one of last year’s top streaming apps in terms of revenue, but its subscriber count is falling short of analyst projections. Industry observers had expected the service,...
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HBO will launch streaming services in Brazil and Argentina this year
HBO announced today it would be expanding its streaming footprint with the launch of standalone streaming services in Brazil and Argentina, which are set to go by year’s end. These join the recently...
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Sesame Workshop is looking for startups that help kids
Sesame Workshop, the organization that brought to life the beloved “Sesame Street” and countless other programs, has announced a new venture arm to invest in apps that help children develop. Working...
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Psst… it’s still okay to share your Netflix password
A Federal Appeals Court this month issued a ruling that makes password-sharing a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That has given many Americans pause, as sharing passwords to...
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HBO will get a nightly news show in September, courtesy of Vice News
Making good on plans announced earlier this year, HBO and Vice Media confirmed today that the cable network will begin airing a nightly newscast program, called “Vice News Tonight,” beginning on...
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‘Silicon Valley’ co-creator Mike Judge is coming to Disrupt SF
Mike Judge is no stranger to Disrupt. The first season of Silicon Valley, the HBO show where Judge is co-creator and showrunner, revolved around fictional startup Pied Piper’s attempt to win our...
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HBO’s new Westworld trailer shows AI ethical questions made flesh
HBO has what looks like an expansive new epic TV series on the way, only this time it’s swapping fantasy, swords and castles for androids, AI and western duds. Westworld is a new sci-fi series coming...
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Mike Judge hints about the next season of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’
We were pleased to have “Silicon Valley” executive producer Mike Judge join us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on Monday. The HBO show has managed to both portray and parody the tech...
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