Hulu CFO Elaine Paul Moves Over to Amazon Studios
Paul moves over to Amazon after spending nearly 6 years with Hulu
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Netflix Has Lost $17 Billion in Value in the Last 24 Hours
Streaming giant’s drop is more than Roku and Viacom’s entire market cap
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Instagram Tests Hiding Likes to ‘Remove Pressure,’ Company Says
Six new markets will be unable to see how many likes their friends receive
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FBI and FTC Must Investigate FaceApp’s Ties to Russia, Chuck Schumer Says
Senate minority leader says he has “serious concerns” over the app’s use of pictures and data
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Netflix’s ‘Concerning’ Second Quarter: A ‘Minor Blip’ or a Warning Sign?
“As the marketplace grows more crowded, and the quality of competitors improves, Netflix will have to work harder to attract subscribers,” analyst Jon Giegengack says
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Netflix’s Stock Tumbles After Q2 Flop on Subscriber Growth
Streaming giant’s shares drop more than 10% after it missed Q2 subscriber growth projections by more than 2 million customers
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Netflix: Staying Ad-Free ‘Remains a Deep Part of Our Brand’
“When you read speculation that we are moving into selling advertising, be confident that this is false,” Netflix tells shareholders
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Netflix Misses Big on Q2 Subscriber Growth, Stock Falls 10%
Streaming giant adds 2.7 million new customers — missing analyst estimates by nearly 50%
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High Cost of Aging? FaceApp Users Give Russian Developer ‘Perpetual’ License to Their Photos
Popular app can “reproduce, modify, adapt,” and publish its users’ images without compensation, according to the fine print
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Netflix With Ads: Impossible or Inevitable?
“Netflix needs a way to grow its U.S. revenue in ways beyond just raising the subscription price,” Brian Frons, former president of ABC Daytime and current UCLA lecturer, says
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Instagram Goes Down for the Third Time in Just Over a Month
Facebook-owned app was out for many users in California
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StubHub Refunded $500,000 Worth of Tickets for Shows Canceled by NYC Blackout
More than 1,500 fans were unable to see shows and concerts they’d bought tickets for
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Trump Will ‘Take a Look’ at Peter Thiel’s Claims Google Was ‘Infiltrated’ by China
Thiel says Google’s clandestine A.I. operation should be investigated by CIA and FBI
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FTC Approves Record $5 Billion Settlement With Facebook
The settlement easily surpasses the FTC’s largest penalty to this point — a $22.5 million fine against Google in 2012
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Twitter Hit By Global Outage: ‘Something Is Technically Wrong’
The app and desktop site have went offline at about 11:30 a.m. PST
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Nearly 70% of Americans Say They’d Pay for Disney+, Study Finds
Almost 20% of respondents said they’d be willing to pay between $10 to $20 per month for Disney’s upcoming streaming service
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How Quibi CEO Meg Whitman Plans to Bring ‘Watercooler’ Shows to Mobile Video
“What I’m doing here reminds me of eBay in its earliest days. The consumer tech has changed a ton, but the fundamentals are the same around user experience and user interface,” Whitman tells TheWrap
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‘Summer Camp for Billionaires': Annual Sun Valley Conference Lets Top Tech and Media Execs Talk Clandestinely
Secrecy is paramount at the retreat that counts Apple’s Tim Cook and Comcast chief Brian Roberts among its attendees
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Amazon Has a New ‘Lord of The Rings’ Video Game in the Works
The game comes at the same time Amazon is developing its upcoming “LOTR” TV series
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4 Must-Haves Gaming Livestreamer Caffeine Needs to Compete With Twitch
“If it thinks it can compete as another gaming ‘network’ it will fail. This is not ABC vs. NBC vs. FOX,” CEO of Subnation Seven Volpone tells TheWrap
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President Trump Can’t Block His Twitter Critics, Court Rules
Since the president uses his personal account for “all manner of official purposes,” it’s unconstitutional for him to bar people from seeing his tweets
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Ross Perot, Billionaire Businessman and 2-Time Presidential Candidate, Dies at 89
Third-place finisher in 1992 presidential election lost a five-month battle with leukemia
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Instagram Adds New Feature to ‘Restrict’ Digital Bullies
Mean comments will be hidden behind a “sensitivity screen” and allow a user to approve if they end up on their posts
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BBC Studios Is the Latest Investor in Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s Streaming Service
Investment comes a week after the mobile-only streaming service added its first BBC show to its upcoming lineup
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How Facebook and Twitter’s Content Moderation Could Open a Legal ‘Pandora’s Box’
“It opens them up to liability for information that’s published on their platform,” Matt Bilinsky, a tech and media-focused attorney in Los Angeles, says
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Instagram Is Down for the Second Time in a Month
Popular Facebook-owned app has problems with Stories and new uploads, again
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Netflix Will Lose Subscribers If It Starts Running Ads, Study Says
Introducing ads to the famously ad-free service could scare away millions of customers, new study finds
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Trump Campaign’s Facebook Ads Use Foreign Models to Portray Real Supporters
“Tracey from Florida” is actually from France, it turns out
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Botched Adidas Twitter Campaign Spits out Racist and Anti-Semitic Arsenal Jerseys
When A.I. goes wrong: sportswear giant creates offensive computer-generate jerseys for Twitter trolls
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Twitter Permanently Suspends Egyptian Actor for ‘Now Lets Kill Some Jews’ Tweet
Hesham Mansour was removed after years of anti-Semitic tweets
