The future of television just got a little clearer. An hour after America’s Comcast said its Esquire cable network will shut down, a sign of flagging interest in traditional pay TV, Netflix reported its biggest quarter ever, beating
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Naspers, Africa’s biggest company by market value, is seeking partnerships with mobile phone operators on the continent to boost its video-on-demand business and help compete with US giant Netflix. The owner of Africa’s biggest pay-TV provider
Apple is taking additional steps to expand its US$10/month (R60/month in South Africa) music subscription service beyond just offering songs. In a bid to differentiate itself from Spotify, which has about twice as many subscribers
Susan Wojcicki will forever be part of Google’s history. The company literally started in her home and garage, which she rented in 1998 to two graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Now in her third decade at Google and entering her fourth year as YouTube’s
Amazon.com has taken its video-on-demand platform, known as Prime Video, live in 200 countries around the world, including South Africa. Prices start at just $2,99/month (about R40/month) as part of an introductory offer. The introductory
President-elect Donald Trump invited technology leaders to a discussion next week in New York where Silicon Valley will begin building relationships with an incoming administration it initially distrusted and mostly criticised. Oracle co-CEO
On TalkCentral this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Internet Solutions’ planned acquisition of MWeb. Also this week, Nokia’s making a comeback (kind of), the Orange
Netflix is making some television shows and movies available for download to watch offline, providing its users a feature that has become a must-have for binge-watchers. Many fans have requested to watch Netflix content without an
Streaming video is the future of television, but it’s not necessarily a better business model than traditional, satellite-based pay TV. That’s the view of DStv Digital Media head Graeme Cumming
British public broadcaster, the BBC, plans to launch a “Netflix of the spoken word” to take its radio content beyond the UK. Director-general Tony Hall in a London speech on Wednesday said that the BBC plans to offer all of its audio content, in addition to its BBC