Webalo brings real-time box office data to smartphones
A Los Angeles startup called Webalo is bringing its mobile service to a new market: Hollywood movie studios. Webalo, which makes it easier to navigate spreadsheets and other business data on mobile devices, just announced a partnership with Lionsgate that gives the studio’s executives access to the most up-to-date box office numbers on their smartphones.
Apparently, Lionsgate stores these numbers as internal SAP system reports, so there was no way to see the data on a… Continue Reading
YouTube’s video revolution will be monetized (if the numbers hold)
The online video sharing site YouTube is a great product with a rich community. To say it has a stranglehold on the online video space would be putting it lightly. Yet, as with most things in the tech world, all anyone seems to ever want to talk about YouTube is its monetization. Today, Google, which bought YouTube for $1.65 billion back in 2006, is doing some talking of its own.
In what has to be considered… Continue Reading
Hollywood coming around? Lions Gate partners with YouTube for film clips
I don’t know about you, but when I see a short clip from a film on YouTube I think of it as advertising not piracy. After all, I see the clip and then I want to run out and see the movie. Hollywood has for the most part seen its clips on YouTube as piracy, but it could be coming around.
Google today announced a partnership with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., perhaps best known as the… Continue Reading