Sources: China-linked “Salt Typhoon” hacking campaign potentially accessed US wiretap systems after breaching networks of US ISPs like Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen
AT&T, Verizon are among broadband providers breached in China-linked ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack
Sources: China-linked “Salt Typhoon” hacking campaign breached networks of US ISPs like Verizon and AT&T, potentially gaining access to US wiretap systems
AT&T, Verizon are among broadband providers breached in China-linked ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social , @adamgurri@mastodon.social , @HackyScientress@chaos.social ...
Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023
Two separate articles came out this week, one in The Wall Street Journal and the other in TheWrap both of which talk … Forums: r/boxoffice : Hollywood Finds Fresh Characters And Ne...
Antenna: 6.3% of US customers cancelled major streaming services in November 2023, up from 5.1% YoY; 24% canceled three or more services over the past two years
Ballots, courts collide for Trump Tim Peterson / Digiday : Future of TV Briefing: The top trends and developments that will shape the future of TV in 2024 Om Malik / On my Om : Can...
A look at Disney and Comcast's fight over Hulu; sources say their Hulu valuations differ significantly, they're in arbitration, and Comcast stopped funding Hulu
Parent companies are in final phase of battle marked by legal threats, broken promises and secret arbitration
Netflix Q4: revenue up 1.9% YoY to $7.85B, $55M net income, down from $607M YoY, 231M paid memberships, adding 7.66M subscribers vs. 4.57M est.; stock is up 8%+
January 19, 2023 Fellow shareholders, Summary: ● Q4'22 revenue … Todd Spangler / Variety : Netflix Execs Talk Early Ad-Tier Results, ‘Glass Onion’ and Expected ‘Cancel Reaction’ Fr...
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down as co-CEO but plans to stay on as executive chair; the company promotes COO Greg Peters to co-CEO with Ted Sarandos
Streaming company names new leadership as it looks to reset after ‘tough year’ in 2022 — Reed Hastings is stepping …
YouTube is testing a hub of free, ad-supported streaming channels with select media partners, looking to compete with Roku, Paramount's Pluto TV, and Fox's Tubi
Sources: Netflix restricts some staff's ability to see other employees' salaries, a major shift for a company that has long offered rare pay transparency
Employees at the director level lost ability to view colleagues' pay data late last year — Employers List Wide Salary Ranges in Ways That Sidestep Pay Transparency Law
Antenna: 9% of Netflix's US sign-ups in November were for its ad tier; 57% of subscribers to the plan were re-joining or new signups, while 43% downgraded
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal :
Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service via its new +play marketplace a free one-year Netflix premium subscription
but There's a Catch See also Mediagazer
Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service via its new +play marketplace a free one-year Netflix premium subscription
but There's a Catch See also Mediagazer
Antenna: 19% of US streaming users canceled 3+ subscriptions from June 2020-June 2022; average monthly customer defections were 5.46% in July, up from 4.46% YoY
what used to be called rational economic behavior. https://www.wsj.com/... Amol Sharma / @asharma : Nearly one-fifth of streaming subscribers are “serial” cancelers, a big problem ...
Sources: YouTube plans to launch a “channel store” for streaming services as early as Fall 2022 and is talking with partners about subscription revenue sharing
Ultracompetitive U.S. market is prompting streaming services to seek new ways to find subscribers
Sources: YouTube plans to launch a “channel store” for streaming services as early as Fall 2022 and is talking with partners about subscription revenue sharing
Ultracompetitive U.S. market is prompting streaming services to seek new ways to find subscribers
Report details Apple's early ATT debates, with Craig Federighi pushing for user privacy changes while Eddy Cue and Phil Schiller argued for more cautious action
and destroyed — IDFA Rida Imran / iThinkDifferent : For ATT privacy feature on iOS, Apple executives had to find a common ground Allison McDaniel / 9to5Mac : How Apple's privacy en...
Branch, whose tools help businesses measure marketing programs, raises $300M led by NEA at a $4B valuation; PitchBook: Branch had a $1B valuation in 2019
Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters :
In April, Amazon acquired over a dozen staff from Facebook to boost its own low earth orbit satellite internet efforts; Amazon paid Facebook to seal agreement
Amazon has acquired a team of more than a dozen wireless internet experts from Facebook in an effort to boost its multibillion-dollar effort …
Sources: Google is developing a conversational AI product, known internally as Tivoli, which aims to teach foreign languages through Google Search
Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month previewed an artificial intelligence model that he said would enable people to have open-ended conversations with technology.
How small VOIP operators in the US are being used to perpetrate robocall scams related to social security, COVID-19, and more
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @hoofnagle , @bysarahkrouse , and @ryanjtracy Tweets: Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : WSJ: “When you receive a robocall, chances are someone like Nick...