Poised to capitalise on the new TV platforms that will take its movie rental service to millions of new customers, Lovefilm is making two interesting additions to its board.
Playfish CEO Kristian Segerstråle, who has been impressing folks on the circuit since selling his company to Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) in particular, and Roland Steindorf, head of German ISP Verstael’s supervisory board, are joining as non-executive directors.
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No Comments »Here’s a quick way to learn about the small, black second-gen Apple TV introduced by CEO Steve Jobs at the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) 09.01.10 event:
» How much does it cost? The device is $99, nearly a 67 percent cut from the original $299 price for the first Apple TV and nearly 57 percent from the current $229. Remote is included; cables are not.
» How big is it it? It’s 0.9” high, 3.9” wide and 3.9 inches deep. For comparison, iPhone 4 is 4.5” x 2.31” x 0.37”; the new Nano is 1.48” x 1.61” x 0.35”
» How much does it weigh? 0.6 lbs, slightly more than the iPhone 4 at 4.8 oz.
Posted in Apple, Mobile Social, Social networking, social media Tags: Companies, Entertainment, media-publishing, movies, TV No Comments »Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is trying to close the loop between music discovery and iTunes Store’s music purchasing, by injecting a brand new social network in to iTunes itself.
Integrated in to new iTunes 10 and in to the iTunes Store app on iOS, “Ping” lets users “follow” friends to see what they’re downloading from the store, which concerts they’re attending and what opinions they are posting about songs.
Posted in Apple, Mobile Social, Social networking, social media Tags: Companies, Entertainment, movies, music No Comments »And here it is … the pocket-rocket version of Apple TV with $4.99 first-run movies and $0.99 TV shows. The main content events: as expected, ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). And, as expected, it’s a heck of a lot cheaper: a much more competitive $99, down from the original $299 and the current $229. CEO Steve Jobs promises availability in four weeks; pre-orders start today. One surprise: it’s all rental, no purchases. It’s also a conduit, not a storage device.
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs says the emphasis on a sleeker device at a much lower price with inexpensive “Hollywood” content is the result of user feedback over the four years since Apple TV debuted. “They want Hollywood movies and TV shows whenever they want them. They want Hollywood, they don’t want amateur hour. They want everything in HD. They’d like to pay lower prices; the lower the prices, the more they’re going to watch. They don’t want computer on TV.”
Think about that last one.
Posted in Apple, Mobile, Mobile Social, Social networking, iPhone, social media Tags: abc, Companies, Disney, Entertainment, fox, ipad, media-publishing, movies, News Corp, TV, VoD No Comments »YouTube will be broadcasting all Major League Baseball games on its site in Japan next year, in what the company is calling “the largest partnership for premium sports content” in its history.
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