Investors pressuring AT&T to divest TV assets – report
Reports are circulating the telecoms press pages suggesting AT&T investors are pressuring new CEO John Stankey to sell assets in DirecTV.
Reports are circulating the telecoms press pages suggesting AT&T investors are pressuring new CEO John Stankey to sell assets in DirecTV.
In years gone, internet downtime would have been considered a first world problem, but now it is costing enterprise organisations millions every time a digital baron period emerges.
The podcasting industry was shaken up this week with the announcement that JRE is moving exclusively to Spotify and it looks like it has caught Apple’s attention.
The streaming wars have opened a major new front with the news that Spotify has lured the Joe Rogan Experience away from YouTube and iTunes.
A new law has been passed in France that allows it to impose draconian punishments on social media companies that fail to take down some content within 60 minutes.
The CEO of new video streaming service Quibi has turned to the press once more to address its faltering launch, but he continues to score own-goals.
Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention.
Telefonica and Liberty Global have confirmed plans to merge UK operations, O2 and Virgin Media, to challenge the connectivity market leader BT.
Online entertainment and gaming companies are seeing COVID-19 surges in revenues, but are these businesses in a position to resist the pressures of a global recession?
The Walt Disney company has reported a 29% increase for year-on-year revenues thanks to its streaming bet, but COVID-19 has forced the team to withhold dividend payments.
Alphabet-owned Google certainly felt the pinch of COVID-19 over the last few weeks of the quarter, but CEO Sundar Pichai identified diversification as key to managing the crisis.
Disruptive mobile video streaming platform Quibi seemed to have everything in place to succeed until the coronavirus pandemic came along.
The gaming industry might face similar production challenges as film and TV, but revenues are surging and few are profiting more than Hong Kong’s Tencent.
As expected, Netflix has experienced a material benefit from many societies being placed under lockdown thanks to the on-going coronavirus pandemic.
The Australian Government has promised by July a mandatory code to force Silicon Valley to pay Australian media organisations for content used on their platforms.
With the streaming world becoming ever more congested, it’s not clear how many more services the industry can tolerate, but Quibi doesn’t think it has to worry about that.
Walt Disney executives might have believed the pieces were falling into place to a blockbuster debut, but perhaps even the biggest optimists would have failed to see this coming.
After launching in the UK, US and South Korea, Microsoft has decided to rollout its services in an additional eleven markets.
Google-owned YouTube has altered its community guidelines to ensure all conspiracy theories which suggest 5G is the cause or an accelerator of COVID-19 are removed from the platform.
YouTube has confirmed it will reduce the exposure videos which promote 5G as some sort of cause or accelerator of the coronavirus, though its actions are somewhat limited.
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