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Disney To Create Central Organization Focused On Disney+ Streaming
Disney To Create Central Organization Focused On Disney+ Streaming
October 12, 2020  |  Streaming

Disney is restructuring part of its business to focus on video streaming, which is becoming increasingly popular, CNBC reported. The company said Monday (Oct. 12)...

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Movie Houses Go Dark, Lighting The Way For The Streaming (Content) Deluge
Movie Houses Go Dark, Lighting The Way For The Streaming (Content) Deluge
October 05, 2020  |  Internet of Things

The spikes in new coronavirus cases, notable in pockets across the U.S. and Europe, is having ripple effects across the entertainment industry, pushing back content...

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Amazon Music Goes Ultra-High-Definition
Amazon Music Goes Ultra-High-Definition
October 02, 2020  |  Amazon Technology

Thanks to a partnership with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, thousands of tunes on Amazon Music will be retooled to ultra-high-definition, Amazon announced on...

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Real-World Experiences From Tourism To Gambling Are Going Digital
Real-World Experiences From Tourism To Gambling Are Going Digital
October 02, 2020  |  Innovation

With U.S. airline-passenger miles down some 70 percent as COVID-19 has consumers afraid to fly, Amazon and other eCommerce players are trying to get Americans...

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Subscription Merchants Navigate Post-COVID Trends
Subscription Merchants Navigate Post-COVID Trends
October 01, 2020  |  Subscription Commerce

By now, we all know about the runaway success of streaming entertainment services like Disney+, which had nearly 61 million paying subscribers by late July,...

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Mulan’s Big Win Shows Disney+ Has Potential As An eCommerce Ecosystem
Mulan’s Big Win Shows Disney+ Has Potential As An eCommerce Ecosystem
September 21, 2020  |  Retail

We saw a tale of two big Labor Day weekend releases this year: Disney’s Mulan and Christopher Nolan’s time travel-thriller Tenant. Both were billed as 2020’s big...

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Report: Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi Considers Sale, Other Options
Report: Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi Considers Sale, Other Options
September 21, 2020  |  Business

Quibi, a streaming service app founded by media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, is considering its options, including a possible sale, according to The Wall Street Journal....

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Microsoft Game-Streaming Service Goes Live
Microsoft Game-Streaming Service Goes Live
September 15, 2020  |  Internet of Things

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday (Sept. 15) announced that its game-streaming service XCloud is now available to users of Google’s Android service, but not to Apple...

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix
What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix
September 14, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as...

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