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New report finds company is running ads on videos pushing herbs and potentially unsafe over-the-counter treatments for virusCoronavirus – latest US updatesCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageYouTube is profiting from videos promoting unproven coronavirus treatments, a new report has found, as the company struggles to crack down on misinformation.The Google-owned tech company is running advertisements with videos pushing herbs, meditative music, and potentially unsafe over-the-counter supplements as cures for Covid-19, according to a report published on Friday by the Tech Transparency Project, a not-for-profit watchdog organization...

And ready to build the stuff that the rest of the world needs to stay online during the CoronaCrisis The vast majority of Huawei's employees are back to work following nationwide shutdowns implemented in response to the coronavirus outbreak in China.…

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos says that all of the streaming service’s “productions around the world are shut down” because of the coronavirus pandemic, which he calls “a massive disruption.”
“It’s unprecedented in history,” Sarandos told CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday.
Even as usage of their service has increased from millions of people worldwide staying home on lockdown, Netflix is still navigating the coronavirus crisis.
He noted that because Netflix plans “pretty far ahead” on developing new shows, the service’s release schedule is set for the next several months. He said that the challenge will come later in the year, as shows and films that were in production for release in late 2020 have been put on pause due to the ongoing pandemic...

The $26.5 billion merger between the third and fourth largest US wireless companies will finally close...

NBCUniversal -- which comprises TV property NBC as well as film studio Universal Pictures -- is getting out of the Snapchat business.
As first spotted by The Hollywood Reporter, in a 10-K filing by parent company Comcast from Jan. 31, the media conglomerate sold its entire $500 million stake in Snapchat parent company Snap. NBCU first announced that it was investing half a billion dollars into Snap three years ago, as the company was going public, amid other investments by NBCU into digital properties BuzzFeed and Vox.
The Reporter reports that the sale likely serves to offset the reported $2 billion that Comcast is deploying to launch its own streaming service, Peacock, as well as the $39 billion it spent to acquire British media and telecom conglomerate Sky. Per the filming, Comcast recorded a $293 million gain on the sale of its Snap equity in fiscal 2019, but lost $263 million on the investment in 2018, when Snap’s stock price fell in the wake of its IPO....

"This should be seen as a signal to other manipulation services that we are prepared to take action against them.”
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Disney has been forced to scrap plans for a glitzy European press launch for Disney+ in London this week after the event became one of the latest industry gatherings to be hit by coronavirus fears. Disney was hosting the party at the Exhibition London event space on March 5 to “celebrate the European launch ...

Streaming persists as a major money maker for music’s fat-cats. Not only did it account for 80% of the entire music industry‘s profit in 2019, streaming collectively earned Universal, Sony, and Warner almost $1 million per hour — per fucking hour. In fact, booming subscriber bases led to increased streaming revenues for the industry’s “Big Three.” Music Business Worldwide reports they hit $3.73 billion, $2.4 billion, and $2.21 billion respectively, down from 2018, but still impressive. This solidifies services like Spotify as the primary revenue driver for Big Music; a market now larger than the entire US recorded music market just two years…

Netflix has renewed “Sex Education” for a third season. The news was announced by the streamer via a video on its Twitter account. The series centers on 16-year-old Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield), an inexperienced, socially awkward high-school student who lives with his sex-therapist mother (Gillian Anderson). Otis is a reluctant expert on sex but...

Orange a prévenu il y a trois mois de cela que certaines offres Open allaient augmenter en prix contre l'ajout des appels illimités. Trois mois plus tard, les utilisateurs n'ont fait que subir l'augmentation. En ce début d’année, on ne compte plus le nombre d’opérateurs qui ont tenté de glisser une augmentation des prix en ...

Spotify Tastebuds is a new social music discovery feature now in testing. It’s the first move into social sharing since 2017 when the platform made friend activity exclusive to desktop. Tastebuds lets users explore ‘music taste profiles’ of friends. It’s a navigation option that sits alongside Library and Home/Browse in the mobile app. The ...

Disney+ has been available for only a month and the streaming service is already is a huge success for Disney. Not only do you get access to plenty of new and old Disney shows, but the Disney+ subscription is actually cheaper than any of Disney's rivals. For $6.99, you get support for four simultaneous Disney+ streams that go up to 4K UHD quality, depending on the show. Netflix’s cheapest plan ($8.99) only supports streaming SD shows to a single device at a time. If you pay for a full year of Disney+ access, the monthly cost goes down to $5.83. It’s no wonder that more than 10 million people subscribed to Disney+ at launch, with many of them having taken advantage of even cheaper pre-release deals. And that number may hit 20 million by the end of the year, according to recent estimates.

All that is apparently enough to scare Netflix into finding better ways to compete against its biggest rival to date. And that includes testing new membership plans that would reduce the...

L'opérateur historique prévoit une migration totale vers la fibre optique à l'horizon 2030, ce qui laissera encore quelques années aux derniers abonnés pour migrer vers la fibre optique...

Le BARB (Broadcasters' Audience Research Board) britannique vient de publier les chiffres SVOD pour le 3ème trimestre 2019. LIEN A INSERER DANS LE CHAMPS DE SOURCE : https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/digital-home-revolution/pres-de-14-millions-de-foyers-britanniques-abonnes-a-un-service-de-svod-39894929.htm#xtor=RSS-1