Mr. Moviefone is about to get disconnected. AOL’s Moviefone dial-in lines will no longer be available after next Monday, March 31, according to a recording on the service. The phone nu…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMWith Disney’s blockbuster $500 million-plus deal to buy Maker Studios, look for dealmaking activity in the online multichannel network space to continue apace. MCNs are “now top-…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMDisney Interactive is eliminating 700 jobs, about 26% of its total workforce, as the Mouse House’s games and Internet division struggles to achieve profitability. The cuts were expecte…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMAwesomenessTV, DreamWorks Animation’s digital division, has hired Walt Disney Studios marketing exec T.J. Marchetti as chief marketing officer. Marchetti will be in charge of all Aweso…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PMNBCUniversal is trying to transplant some Silicon Valley culture to the East Coast. The media company Monday announced the launch of the 63,000-sq.-ft. NBCU Technology Center in Englewood Cl…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:01AMJacob Shwirtz, formerly head of social TV at Viacom’s MTV Networks, will join Endemol North America as chief social media officer for its Internet-video division, Endemol Beyond USA. …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PMA man who was wearing a Google Glass device during a showing of “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” last Saturday at an AMC Theatres location in Columbus, Ohio, was questioned by agents …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PMNBCUniversal’s news division has made a minority investment in NowThis News, styled as a next-generation mobile-social video news provider, in a bid to better reach millennials and oth…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20AMThe Walt Disney Co. elected Jack Dorsey, chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square, as an independent director to its board effective immediately. Disney chairman and CEO Robert Iger called the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:12PMBroadway Video Entertainment’s “Saturday Night Live” has set up shop on YouTube — its first official channel on the world’s biggest Internet video destination &…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59AMAfter the New York Times’ website went down Wednesday morning, the newspaper began posting breaking news to its Facebook page and Twitter while attempting to fix the issue. According t…
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