Playboy stops DVD production
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Playboy Enterprises is shuttering its DVD production business as part of a larger restructuring to reduce costs.
The company wants to shave expenses by $10 million in order to return to profitability in 2009, Playboy chair and CEO Christie Hefner said in an Oct. 15 note to staff. In addition to exiting the disc business, Playboy will eliminate 80 employee positions as well as consolidating office space in Los Angeles.
Playboy hopes to transition its DVD activities into exploiting online programming, which is considered a profitable operation for the company. Next year, the company will re-launch its Web site, Playboy.com, which will better integrate its publishing and online businesses.
The company wants to shave expenses by $10 million in order to return to profitability in 2009, Playboy chair and CEO Christie Hefner said in an Oct. 15 note to staff. In addition to exiting the disc business, Playboy will eliminate 80 employee positions as well as consolidating office space in Los Angeles.
Playboy hopes to transition its DVD activities into exploiting online programming, which is considered a profitable operation for the company. Next year, the company will re-launch its Web site, Playboy.com, which will better integrate its publishing and online businesses.
France is to get the world's fastest broadband satellite, thanks to Eutelsat and the French government.
The 70Gbps KA-SAT satellite, scheduled to go online in 2010, will bring high speed (ADSL 2-level) web access to rural communities and other unserved 'grey' areas.
The new satellite is part of the French government's 'Digital France 2012' initiative, which aims to bring broadband to every French home and business over the next four years.
The 70Gbps KA-SAT satellite, scheduled to go online in 2010, will bring high speed (ADSL 2-level) web access to rural communities and other unserved 'grey' areas.
The new satellite is part of the French government's 'Digital France 2012' initiative, which aims to bring broadband to every French home and business over the next four years.
Netflix made a nice profit but also said Monday that its
subscription growth will slow, providing evidence that the
DVD-rental industry could be harmed by a faltering economy.
Netflix said its third-quarter profit rose 30% to $20.4 million on
revenue that was up 16% to $341 million. The results beat
expectations on the bottom line but not the top line.
CEO Reed Hastings said on a conference call with analysts that the
economy has taken a turn for the worse since July, when the company
saw no negative effects on its business. Now, though, slower growth
is the forecast from Netflix, and its goal of 9.7 million
subscribers by year’s end is in doubt.
subscription growth will slow, providing evidence that the
DVD-rental industry could be harmed by a faltering economy.
Netflix said its third-quarter profit rose 30% to $20.4 million on
revenue that was up 16% to $341 million. The results beat
expectations on the bottom line but not the top line.
CEO Reed Hastings said on a conference call with analysts that the
economy has taken a turn for the worse since July, when the company
saw no negative effects on its business. Now, though, slower growth
is the forecast from Netflix, and its goal of 9.7 million
subscribers by year’s end is in doubt.
NAB Tells FCC They're Not Reading Their Own Report Correctly - Wants FCC to consider a delay on WhiteSpaces
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Shortly after the FCC released their findings, the National Association of Broadcasters, long-standing opponents of the idea for both its competitive and potential interference inpact, issued a press release claiming that the FCC didn't understand their own results. NAB also requested that the FCC postpone their November 4 vote on the technology, according to Ars Technica.
Kevin Rose has posted a YouTube walkthrough of the new Qik application on the way to the iPhone. No word on when it will be released or how much it will cost, but it’s a pretty cool app that will put mobile video in the hands of millions of new users.
Consumer spending on sales and rentals of home entertainment softened in the third quarter but by an encouragingly modest amount, given the dark economic environment, according to studio executives.
Online video advertising reported for less (but still strong) growth
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Online video advertising isn’t recession-proof from growth, according to David Hallerman, Senior Analyst for eMarketer and author of their recently released report, Video Advertising Online: Spending and Pricing. But while there’s considerably less growth for video advertising this year than originally anticipated (Down from eMarketer’s last year’s estimate for 2008 of $1.35 billion to $505 million), Hallerman says in his interview with ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell that the desire for its growth in the market is still very strong.
Android Goes Open Source - One day ahead of HTC G1 launch
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Ahead of the official launch of the HTC G1, Google today announced that they're taking the Android mobile phone OS open source. According to the creatively named Android Open Source Project (and, well, these guys), the code is now available for download for anyone to tinker with.
Ooyala released several new options for syndication and distribution of online video. With the new release today, they have added 5 syndication options for your video content: Youtube, Yahoo Video Search, Blinkx Video Search, Google Video Sitemaps, and the ability to create custom MRSS feeds to be used in other applications across the web.
NFL's Live Streaming Leaves A Lot To Be Desired: Capping Users, Poor Video Quality
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When the NFL announced it would be streaming seventeen games this year on NFL.com and NBCSports.com, dubbed "Sunday Night Football Extra", many were excited to see what kind of video offering the NFL had in store for their fans. With the NFL having now completed nearly half of their broadcasts, the user experience has been anything less than what I would call a quality offering for a variety of reasons.
Akamai Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) continues to look for ways to add value in an increasingly commoditized business -- this time with the purchase of targeted ad company acerno Inc. for $95 million in cash.
New York-based acerno was founded in 2004 and has about 45 employees. acerno adds value to advertisers by aggregating anonymous shopping and purchase data from a number of cooperating retail outlets and product manufacturers. By combining that data with advanced analytics, acerno can give advertisers a better idea of who's buying what, enabling them to go after the right consumers.
New York-based acerno was founded in 2004 and has about 45 employees. acerno adds value to advertisers by aggregating anonymous shopping and purchase data from a number of cooperating retail outlets and product manufacturers. By combining that data with advanced analytics, acerno can give advertisers a better idea of who's buying what, enabling them to go after the right consumers.
Hulu is completely down, and has been for more than 20 minutes. There’s no error message or nothing. Downforeveryoneorjustme.com doesn’t think the site exists. We emailed the company spokespeople for contact and their emails bounced. Update from Hulu in the comments: Temporary site outage.
Image Entertainment has secured a reprieve from NASDAQ, as the market is temporarily not enforcing a minimum value for the DVD supplier’s shares in light of currently volatile trading conditions.
The supplier has three months, until Feb. 6, to achieve compliance with the minimum value rule, which requires that Image’s publicly traded shares maintain a value of at least $15 million for 30 consecutive trading days in order for it to be listed with the NASDAQ Global Market.
The supplier has three months, until Feb. 6, to achieve compliance with the minimum value rule, which requires that Image’s publicly traded shares maintain a value of at least $15 million for 30 consecutive trading days in order for it to be listed with the NASDAQ Global Market.
The Short List for U.S. Chief Technology Officer - BusinessWeek
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Barack Obama says that the U.S. is not doing nearly enough to create jobs through technology. Shortly after he launched his campaign, the Illinois Senator promised that if elected, he would create the first-ever Cabinet-level post of chief technology officer. The economic crisis has since made it certain that a White House CTO would become one of Obama's most important advisers, should he triumph in November. "Obama sees greater broadband penetration as an enormous economic engine, much like the railroads were a century ago," says Andrew D. Lipman, a veteran communications lawyer in Washington.
MediaMelon Teams Up for Multisource Video Delivery
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Video startup MediaMelon Inc. has developed software that enables a "video overlay network," which it says can provide higher-quality video at lower cost than traditional streaming.
Like Move Networks Inc. and some others, MediaMelon uses adaptive streaming to adjust the video stream that is delivered to the end user to ensure that the user gets the highest-quality feed that his broadband connection can support.
Like Move Networks Inc. and some others, MediaMelon uses adaptive streaming to adjust the video stream that is delivered to the end user to ensure that the user gets the highest-quality feed that his broadband connection can support.
PermissionTV, a provider of white-label video sites that says it differentiates its service from its many competitors by making its platform more open, has let go of six employees from operations, sales and marketing. The company has replaced three of the salespeople, for a net loss of three people.
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