Intel close to signing TV content deals with NBC, Viacom, & Time Warner

Intel is apparently making some progress on bringing content for its forthcoming pay-TV service that's expected to launch before the end of the year.

HBO has 114M subscribers, a new 2-year deal with George R.R. Martin, & no fear of Netflix

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes actually praised Netflix during today's Q4 2012 earnings call, despite the streaming video service being a rival of his company's premium cable network HBO.

Slowpoke Apple TV might get HBO Go — a year after Roku & Xbox did

Rumors are now circulating that Apple is currently in negotiations with Time Warner to bring the HBO Go app to its Apple TV set-top boxes later this year. Meanwhile all the other set-top boxes are doing laps around Apple.

Time’s Person of the Year: Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer, or the woman who led the biggest science experiment in history?

Tech execs Tim Cook and Marissa Mayer have joined the president of Egypt, Bill and Hilary Clinton, and yes, Barack Obama himself on the shortlist of people being considered for Time's Person of the Year. As did a little known scientist who proved Einstein right.

Time Warner dropping $40M on YouTube channel partner Maker Studios

Popular video production company Maker Studios is apparently raising a new round of funding led by old media entertainment company Time Warner.

Cable industry calls for revival: it’s not your ‘grandmother’s cable business’

To better understand how to stay relevant in a mobile and hyper-connected world, the cable industry is turning to Silicon Valley's tech entrepreneurs.

Flixster spruces up its web app with better discovery, UltraViolet store & more

Movie-focused service Flixster is releasing a new version of its web application today, which includes a cleaner user interface, UltraViolet store support, and more.

Verizon grows even larger: FCC approves spectrum deal with big cable

Federal Communications Committee has approved a deal that will see Verizon purchase a portion of wireless spectrum from a handful of big cable television providers.

Turner Broadcasting buys Bleacher Report to bolster online sports presence

Time-Warner-owned Turner Broadcasting has purchased popular sports site Bleacher Report, the company announced today. While the price tag is unknown, the Wall Street Journal reports it's around $175 million.

DOJ wants to know if big cable is unfairly killing the cord-cutting revolution

It took a while, but the U.S. Department of Justice is finally acknowledging that big cable companies may have the power to suffocate online video service, which people turn to as an alternative to paying an expensive monthly cable TV …

Threatened by wireless carriers, Time Warner, Comcast, Cox team up for CableWifi

It’s rarely a good thing when the country’s biggest cable providers partner up, but subscribers might be okay with today’s news.

Customers of Bright House, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Time Warner will soon be able to connect to each …

NimbleTV aims to succeed where Comcast and Time Warner failed with a TV anywhere platform

 

Earlier this year we reported quite a bit on Aereo, a New York startup that offers customers the ability to watch network TV (the free stuff you get over rabbit ears) on any internet-connected device. It is now embroiled …

HBO drops $10M on Australian rental service Quickflix

Premium U.S. television network HBO has agreed to invest $10 million into DVD and streaming video rental service Quickflix, the companies announced today.

Quickflix is one of the largest streaming and physical (DVD and Blu-ray) video rental services in Australia. …

SOPA Opera: Anonymous targets media execs, moguls take aim at Google

The White House shook up the debate over the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) this weekend, publishing a letter that made it clear the executive branch would not back a bill without changes that addressed concerns over online censorship …

DOJ launches probe into Verizon’s spectrum deal with big cable

Perhaps Verizon was a bit hasty in its decision to stop growing its FiOS TV and broadband Internet business in favor of wireless partnerships with big cable companies. U.S. regulators have launched a probe into Verizon’s recent wireless spectrum agreements,which …

Lame: Verizon is abandoning its FiOS TV & internet service to pursue wireless partnerships

Communications giant Verizon is scaling back efforts to grow its FiOS television and Internet services, according to comments made by the company’s Chief Executive Lowell McAdams during the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York Wednesday.

McAdams said …

Trion prepares to host third-party games on its online gaming platform

Game maker Trion Worlds, which successfully launched its first major online role-playing fantasy game, Rift, back in March, is now unveiling a game platform to publish games created by other companies.

While Trion will continue making massively multiplayer online games …

Why Time Warner should reacquire Aol

Aol released its earnings today a week after Time Warner, its former dot-com merger partner, announced earnings. The two businesses, once considered completely disparate and deemed one of the worst corporate mergers of all time, are now increasingly complementary as …