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Week-in-Review: Google’s never-ending autonomous road trip
Hello, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on...
View ArticleWith help from ‘Game of Thrones,’ HBO conquers Netflix in Emmy nominations
When the Emmy nominations were announced last year, Netflix had a big win, overtaking HBO for the first time. But this year, HBO is back in the lead, with 137 nominations compared to Netflix’s 117. The...
View ArticleHBO Max is bringing back ‘Gossip Girl’
“Gossip Girl,” the soapy CW drama about wealthy teenagers behaving badly in New York City’s Upper East Side, is returning to TV thanks to HBO Max. Specifically, the streaming service has placed a...
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What lower Netflix pricing tells us about competing in India
At a conference in New Delhi early last year, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was confronted with a question that his company has been asked many times over the years. Would he consider lowering the...
View ArticleOriginal Content podcast: ‘Years and Years’ takes an unsettling look at the...
“Years and Years” is an unusual show. It’s a co-production of HBO and the BBC, and in the course of six hour-long episodes, it covers a span of more than 10 years in our near future. During that time,...
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Hulu and Amazon Prime Video chip away at Netflix’s dominance
Netflix is still the No. 1 subscription streaming service in the U.S., according to a new report from eMarketer, but rivals, including Amazon Prime Video and Hulu, are starting to cut into its market...
View ArticleAmazon’s ‘Fleabag’ wins four Emmys, including best comedy series
Amazon must be pretty happy after tonight’s prime time Emmy Awards, where its shows “Fleabag” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” dominated the comedy categories. “Fleabag” (which originally aired on the...
View ArticleHBO Max scores all 21 Studio Ghibli films
HBO’s streaming services have long succeeded on the strength of original programming, but in a post-AT&T acquisition world, the company is having to create a streaming service supergroup of...
View ArticleOriginal Content podcast: If you haven’t watched ‘Succession’ yet, what are...
You’ve probably already heard that HBO’s “Succession” (which recently completed its second season) is amazing. And as three East Coast tech reporters, we were probably the easiest targets for the...
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HBO Max will cost $14.99 per month and launch in May 2020
AT&T and WarnerMedia just announced the pricing of their HBO Max streaming service, along with sharing more details about the timing and content lineup. The service will cost $14.99 per month — the...
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Daily Crunch: HBO Max will launch in May
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. HBO Max...
View ArticleLightspeed’s Jeremy Liew is on the hunt for always-on media startups
Perhaps best known for a career-making seed investment in Snapchat, Lightspeed partner Jeremy Liew is a leading investor across media and entertainment, making bets on startups like Cheddar, Giphy, HQ,...
View ArticleHBO’s former CEO said to be in talks with Apple TV+ for an exclusive...
The man who oversaw the creation of some of HBO’s most highly praised “prestige TV” could soon be making shows for Apple TV+, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Richard Plepler,...
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Disney+ to launch in India, Southeast Asian markets next year
Disney plans to bring its on-demand video streaming service to India and some Southeast Asian markets as soon as the second half of next year, two sources familiar with the company’s plan told...
View ArticleQuibi series from Steven Soderbergh starring Tye Sheridan focuses on...
People dramatically proclaim all the time that they don’t think they could survive without their smartphones, but a new series from the forthcoming streaming service Quibi from Jeffrey Katzenberg and...
View ArticleNetflix earmarks $420M to fight Disney in India
Netflix continues to bet heavily on India, one of the world’s largest entertainment markets, where it competes with more than three dozen rivals, including Disney. Reed Hastings, the chief executive of...
View ArticleRoku to stream first season of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ for free
Roku is unlocking premium content from HBO for the first time without a subscription, with its second-annual holiday streaming fest, Stream-a-thon. The promotion will see Roku offering the full first...
View ArticleHow the founder of Pocket.watch sees the future of children’s entertainment
When Chris Williams founded entertainment platform Pocket.watch in 2017, he was certain that no one had yet found the right way to work with the generation of children’s talent finding its audience on...
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The new Google TV brings streaming apps, live TV and search into a single...
Not to be confused with the smart TV platform of the same name (2010-2014, RIP) or the Android TV platform it’s built on top of, Google has just taken the wraps off the new Google TV. The name refers...
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The new Chromecast adds a remote and the new Google TV interface for $49
It’s been a while since Google gave its Chromecast line a proper bit of love — perhaps not surprising for a fairly mature device now marking its seventh year. At today’s big Launch Night In event,...
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