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...TV couple-turned-real life couple Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher gave voice to some of the stoned cats, and Vitalik Buterin — the mind behind ethereum — also has a role, as does film star Jane Fonda....
...Goodbye Internet Explorer, as Gates snubs cryptoAfter more than a quarter of a century of web browsing, “Internet Explorer (IE) is officially retired and out of support as of today,” said Microsoft....
...As the internet emerged, companies began connecting and users were connected. Unfortunately, that time around the leading information service providers dropped the ball....
...The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...There is, without question, lots of doubt around, as the internet-isation of television and film continues to unfold. Once there were movie theaters, cable TV, broadcast TV, and DVD rentals....
...By last year, broadcasting revenues accounted for up to 35 per cent of F1’s annual revenues of more than $1.8bn....
...Rocketing demand for online video is reshaping the US TV industry, as viewers look to watch shows over the internet on a screen of their choosing, rather than on a TV set....
...platforms including Roku and Apple TV boxes and Sony’s PlayStation Vue internet TV bundle....
...Before launching the company, she was an executive at British Sky Broadcasting, the UK pay-TV operator in which 21st Century Fox holds a 39 per cent stake....
...This could lead to scrimping on service and system upgrades – a precarious move when cable substitutes such as satellite, wireless, internet and fibre optics are increasingly available....
...It makes one feel culturally and digitally up-to-date to think that cable and the internet will kill broadcast TV....
...The new investment, which brings the sum Roku has raised to date to $140m, could accelerate the disruption to traditional cable, satellite and broadcast TV business models, even as Roku positions itself...
...“Bringing TV dollars to digital”, as ComScore put it last week, sounds threatening to people who depend on TV dollars, pounds or euros....
...“As the internet grows, we grow.”...
...YouView, the much-delayed internet TV venture by some of the UK’s biggest broadcasters and broadband providers, will finally be put to the test by members of the public this week after three years in development...
...They have no reason to give their content to an internet TV network for less than they charge incumbent distributors such as Comcast, DirectTV, and Verizon....
...One of ViaSat’s customers is Dish Networks, the satellite TV provider, which resells its service to US consumers....
...The internet was supposed to be bad for the television business....
...groups on the market for TV advertising....
...General Electric, the industrial conglomerate that owned NBCU, had just watched the TV business endure a gruelling advertising recession....
...TV channel contract renewal negotiations, once almost invisible from public view, have become more fraught in recent years as the economics of TV suffer from the rise of digital alternatives such as Hulu...
...“We want to work with any screen connected with the internet,” said Mr Kilar....
...While the decision to put the show online signals a shift in broadcasting dynamics, TV still dominates....
...The consumption of broadcast media has fragmented across hundreds of cable channels, countless mobile phones, the YouTube broadcasting website, as well as TV’s own digital ventures, such as Hulu and the...
...Younger viewers are watching more TV online and using services such as Hulu, with many ditching their cable subscriptions in favour of internet viewing....
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