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- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... and in-person shoppers. These totaled 195 million, ‘up from 172 million a year earlier.’ Says Peter Kafka of All Things Digital, âBut for the record, sales are up three percent so far, and Web sales were up 11 percent on Black Friday.â ‘The day after U.S. Thanksgiving , … âI still expect Monday should be a much bigger day online than Black Friday.â Cyber Monday is the day...
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TechSheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Is YouTube Ready for Primetime? Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee. — YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too. — Google’s video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a fee, [...]
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TechSheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Is YouTube Ready for Prime Time? Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee — YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV, too. — Google’s video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a [...]
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google's ever-expanding presence could mean trouble for Hulu and iTunes, as YouTube may one day let you buy streaming TV shows the day after they air. If a report by All Things D's Peter Kafka is correct, Apple and Hulu should worry because Google is well-positioned to be a network TV streaming powerhouse, and this time it's no joke . But Google's foray into selling TV shows on YouTube...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's no secret that YouTube's trying to catch up to Hulu in terms of offering premium content; the site's administrators often make a big deal out of movie and TV show additions. What is under wraps - or at least hasn't been publicized in press releases and blog posts - is that YouTube might also be interested in charging for access. According to Peter Kafka , "[I]t envisions something...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's no secret that YouTube's trying to catch up to Hulu in terms of offering premium content; the site's administrators often make a big deal out of movie and TV show additions. What is under wraps - or at least hasn't been publicized in press releases and blog posts - is that YouTube might also be interested in charging for access. According to Peter Kafka , "[I]t envisions something...
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Content Matters (Free subscription) | yesterday
Via Peter Kafka's MediaMemo (All Things D), comes a concise view of the state of the news media market from John Byrne, whose last day as Executive Editor of BusinessWeek is today. And while many have weighed in on that...
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Mac|Life all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in some fashion or another to deliver regular TV content online -- for a fee. According to Peter Kafka at Media Memo , with a pay-per-episode arrangement similarly priced to iTunes, YouTube hopes to lure TV programmers into allowing the company to rent out episodes starting the day after they initially appear on television. In what may prove a tough sell to customers, YouTube's model...
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Venture Beat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mountain View-based Google has been meeting with top TV networks in hopes of getting the rights to sell their shows on its YouTube video site for $1.99 per episode, claims media reporter Peter Kafka. Google already streams some TV content free on YouTube, but it doesn’t carry current shows the way the successful Hulu does. Lately, YouTube traffic has been flattening, while Hulu...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mountain View-based Google has been meeting with top TV networks in hopes of getting the rights to sell their shows on its YouTube video site for $1.99 per episode, claims media reporter Peter Kafka. Google already streams some TV content free on YouTube, but it doesn’t carry current shows the way the successful Hulu does. Lately, YouTube traffic has been flattening, while Hulu...
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google is in talks with TV networks and studios to stream episodes of television shows for a fee on YouTube, Peter Kafka reports . YouTube wants to sell streams of individual episodes for $1.99 a pop. It would be akin to what Apple offers through iTunes, or Amazon offers on its site. The main difference, you can only stream the episodes, not download them. Read the rest of this story...
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Philadelphia Tech News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... its iPhone app is ready to go but still waiting approval from the App Store (what else is new?). Peter Kafka of All Things Digital interviews founder Justin Shaffer about the Brooklyn-based firm. (video). First Round Partner Rob Hayes wrote an article in November's Fast Company , When Is the Right Time to Start a Business? Now. The New York Time "Bits" blog writes on the...
