Tech
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BBC Site, Streaming Services Clobbered by Online Attack
The company’s main site and popular streaming players suffered outages for hours, said to be the result of a targeted attack
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Taylor Swift vs. Spotify and 5 Other Media-Tech Feuds to Watch in 2016
TheWrap Predicts 2016: Our guide to some of the biggest disputes among media and Silicon Valley giants
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Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ Streaming Date Set on Amazon
Amazon will stream movie for Prime members on February 4, two months after its theatrical debut
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Disney Invents Gravity-Defying Robot That Walks Up Walls (Video)
Watch VertiGo, the Disney invention that looks like the offspring of a drone if it mated with a pint-sized lunar rover.
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Spotify Sued by Camper Van Beethoven Singer for $150 Million
The class-action suit accuses the streaming music service of shortchanging artists on royalty payments
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Streaming Sites Netflix, Amazon Were Wall Street’s Big Winners in 2015
Netflix shares performed better than any other company in the S&P 500, with rival Amazon in second place
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China Passes Antiterrorism Law That Crimps Media
Provisions constrain reporting of attacks and other terror activities, including limits on details that might inspire imitators
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Netflix’s Reed Hastings Stock Options Set to Soar, Salary Trimmed
CEO is poised for a $5 million bump in the value of stock options next year, while salary drops slightly
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‘Wicked City’ Lives Again on Hulu
This cancelled show’s revival on Hulu has a twist: Most other shows that get a second life on streaming were beloved to begin with
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7 Biggest Tech Trainwrecks in 2015: From Tidal to Twitter to Taylor Swift
TheWrap Rewind 2015: The overlap of technology and entertainment caused more than one derailment this year
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FBI Traces Pirated ‘Hateful Eight’ Screener to Alcon Executive
Alcon Entertainment co-CEO Andrew Kosove says he never actually received the copy of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie
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The Beatles to Finally Release Songs for Streaming
Top music streaming services will add the Beatles catalog Thursday, reflecting the format’s passage from niche to the norm
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Kim Kardashian to Apple: ‘Sorry I Broke Your App Store!’
The reality star humble-brag apologizes that her new app, with custom emoji of her face and other familiar assets, is too popular to download or work properly
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The Price of Entertainment in 2015 – Sports Spike Up, Cable’s Stable
TheWrap Rewind 2015: Ticket prices to movies, concerts and theaters climbed 3.6 percent in the last year, and sporting events soared 8.1 percent.
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Apple to ’60 Minutes’: Nothing to Hide Except All Our Secrets
The nightly newsmagazine peeked behind Apple’s curtain and discovered a few new nuggets and lots of locked doors
