Kevin Reilly, who ended a six-year run at WarnerMedia last summer amid waves of restructuring at the media company, has resurfaced as an advisory board member of a tech startup called DeepDub.
In an interview with Deadline, Reilly described what he sees as a compelling opportunity for the emerging outfit, and said he…
The vice chair and heir of Samsung will be back behind bars after a bribery and embezzlement sentence handed down by a South Korean appeals court, clouding the future leadership of the tech giant.
Lee Jae-yong was taken into custody for a two-and-a-half year term – the latest development in a three year-plus legal…
Defending his company’s takedown of the controversial Parler app from his online store, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Fox newsman Chris Wallace today that he doesn't believe freedom of speech and allegedly provoking violence intersect.
Apple, Google, and Amazon Services all took the Parler app offline after the protests…
Streamland Media, formerly Picture Head Holdings, has announced plans to acquire Technicolor’s post-production business.
Trive Capital and Five Crowns Capital are supporting the deal, which is valued at $36.5 million and expected to close in the first half of this year.
Streamland already owns a range of…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said today in a tweetstorm that his company is exploring the development of a decentralized standard for social media. He revealed the initiative, dubbed @bluesky, in a long thread that attempted to explain Twitter’s recent and controversial deplatforming of President Donald Trump and other…
UPDATED with closing price.FuboTV shares are riding high again after the emerging company announced it is acquiring sports betting startup Vigtory, planning to use it to launch a full-fledged sportsbook later this year.
Terms were not disclosed for the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter. It…
UPDATED with Amazon comment, 4:11 PM. Amazon has responded to a lawsuit filed by Parler earlier today after the tech giant’s web services arm let the upstart social network go dark after it disseminated false election fraud claims and played a role in last Wednesday’s siege on the U.S. Capitol.
"There is no merit to…
Roku reached 51.2 million active accounts by the end of a streaming-besotted 2020, rising from 36.9 million by the end of 2019 and 13.4 million in 2016.
Describing the global numbers as “preliminary estimated data,” the tech firm said it facilitated 17 billion streaming hours in the fourth quarter and 58.7 billion…
Apple CEO Tim Cook earned $14.8 million in fiscal 2020, up 28% from the year earlier as the company beat its financial targets despite a global pandemic.
The chief executive's package included a $3 million base salary and $10.7 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation, according to a proxy statement filed…
Questions are growing about the whereabouts of Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, after he failed to appear on the finale of an African business TV show he created.
Ma was a no-show as a judge on the entrepreneurial talent series, Africa's Business Heroes, in November, just weeks after he…
A hilarious digitally altered version of Queen Elizabeth’s annual Christmas speech was broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4 Friday, providing a serious message while sending up the real Queen's address.
The “deepfake” version of Queen Elizabeth II took several swipes at members of the Royal family, and the Queen even…
Shares in FuboTV, which boomed at the start of the week, have dropped more than 16% today, their second straight day of sharp declines at the end of a roller-coaster week.
At $44.10 midway through the trading day, the stock is near the level where it began trading on Monday. It dropped 15% on Wednesday after reaching…
