Posted by NARUTO on February 22, 2011 ·
Amazon.com has launched a TV service and stream format movies for its special customers, to directly compete with Netflix, a rival that is growing rapidly.
Amazon announced on Tuesday that its prime customers, who pay $ 79 a year to receive orders without shipping charges and within two days, could choose between 5,000 TV shows and movies, like “Syriana,” [...]
Posted by NARUTO on December 23, 2010 ·
The company announced yesterday that it has acquired an 18-story building at number 111 of the Eight Avenue – also known as 76 of Ninth Avenue.
The purchase, however, should not mean change the views all around two thousand employees – known as Googlers – who live in New York. Since 2006, the offices of a company are exactly in this [...]
Posted by NARUTO on November 15, 2010 ·
Now that was easy to stream premium entertainment content from the web to television, the race to earn money with demand growing and began between Google, Apple, Amazon, Hulu, NBC Universal, News Corp, Disney, and soon, Sony, Viacom and Time Warner. But this fight is already a clear winner: Netflix.
That’s because the company built its business [...]
Posted by NARUTO on August 24, 2010 ·
The U.S. group Time Warner would have closed the purchase of the Chilean Chilevisión television channel, controlled by President Sebastián Piñera, local press reports today.
According to local newspaper El Mercurio, Time Warner would be willing to “pay between 140 and 150 million dollars for control” for Chilevisión.
Asked about the [...]
Posted by Rajeev
Saxena on January 26, 2010 ·
Since its spin off from Time Warner, AOL Inc. has begun its solo journey into the abyss of the online world and as its first monumental step, the company has announced the acquisition of StudioNow Inc and online video creation and distribution service. AOL had recently begun its very own content management program, called Seed.com and the this latest [...]
Posted by Rajeev
Saxena on December 11, 2009 ·
One of the oldest internet entities in the United States, AOL has finally broken off of Time Warner Inc. and is all geared to make a name for itself entirely on its own. The new horizons that AOL is venturing in marks an all new threshold for the company after a long standing catastrophic partnership with the media giant Time Warner Inc.
AOL saw its [...]
Posted by Rajeev
Saxena on December 7, 2009 ·
Far from its tarnished reputation, slumping revenues and threat of complete closure, one of the oldest American internet entities, AOL of America Online is finally set to begin its solo journey towards redemption with the aim improving its web sites and achieving the ever elusive advertisement revenues. The 1990′s era witnessed AOL as one of the [...]
Posted by Rajeev
Saxena on November 23, 2009 ·
Now that, AOL is all set to venture in the online world all on its own, the about to be independent internet entity has already taken the measures necessary to show to the world that, AOL is soon going to be free. It has been reported that, AOL has let go of its traditional triangle logo and has adopted an all new logo for itself.
The new AOL logo will [...]
Posted by Rajeev
Saxena on November 17, 2009 ·
Time Warner Inc. has announced the date for the dividend spin off of its internet entity AOL Inc. The dividend spin off of AOL that is scheduled for December 9th, 2009 will formally separate the entities both legally and structurally. The date for the separation was decided unanimously by the board of directors of Time Warner.
The shareholders of Time [...]
Posted by Rajeev
Saxena on July 28, 2009 ·
Google Inc. that had acquired a 5% stake in Time Warner’s AOL, has sold it all back to the media giant, but at quite a depreciated rate of just $283 million as against the $700 million that Google spent while acquiring the stakes in AOL. Time Warner is planning to do a public spin off on AOL and with the amount it paid to Google to reacquire the [...]