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Warner Brothers Doubles DVD and Streaming Rental Delay, Hopes To Sell More Discs

Warner Brothers Doubles DVD and Streaming Rental Delay, Hopes To Sell More Discs

Warner Brothers has announced plans to delay the release of its movies for DVD rental and streaming purposes to 56 days, double the company's current 28 day rule. Rumors of an increase had been circulating for some time ... continue
Time Warner Cable to offer HBO Go next month

Time Warner Cable to offer HBO Go next month

HBO Go, HBO's mobile-TV application, launched early last year, but Time Warner Cable customers have been without it since. That's set to change, however, as Time Warner announced today that the two companies have finally reached an ... continue
Facebook, Time Warner Launch Anti-Bullying App

Facebook, Time Warner Launch Anti-Bullying App

Facebook and Time Warner Inc. has launched the Stop Bullying: Speak Up Social Pledge App, an interactive social media pledge everyone to make a personal commitment to help stop bullying. Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy ... continue
Time Warner Cable Acquiring Insight Communications For $3 Billion

Time Warner Cable Acquiring Insight Communications For $3 Billion

Time Warner Cable on Monday announced that they have struck a $3 billion cash deal to acquire Insight Communications. The buyout will give Time Warner an additional 750,000 customers throughout Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.   The acquisition was led ... continue
Time Warner loves Netflix’s 28 day delay so much it wants longer delays

Time Warner loves Netflix’s 28 day delay so much it wants longer delays

If you ever wanted proof of just how moronically stupid the movie industry is just take a gander at this statement from Jeff Bewkes, Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner. “So far the 28-day window has clearly been ... continue
Are Comcast and Time Warner ‘authenticating’ themselves right into another failure?

Are Comcast and Time Warner ‘authenticating’ themselves right into another failure?

Like others in old media cable companies and media content producers are in a race – a race for survival in a world that they show just about every day that they don’t understand. ... continue
Broadband lies and increased profits

Broadband lies and increased profits

Broadband providers are always crying the blues and how they need to institute things like caps in order to provide fair service to all along with how expensive all this stuff takes. Every time ... continue
Time Warner announces AOL split as revenue plunges

Time Warner announces AOL split as revenue plunges

Time Warner has announced that it will spin off AOL, on the same day as reporting a big plunge in revenue in the troubled division. Time Warner has made an initial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ... continue
Broadband – a public utility or a profit margin?

Broadband – a public utility or a profit margin?

Our current crop of broadband providers, companies like Time Warner, Verizon and AT&T, have it pretty good. Their lobbyists often out number local government representatives they are calling calling upon on behalf of the ... continue
Time Warner Cable to try out some social blackmail

Time Warner Cable to try out some social blackmail

Back on April 14th I wrote a post about Time Warner implementing metered broadband in certain test area and how I thought it was a bad idea. I wasn’t the only one to write ... continue
Lies, Damn Lies, and Twilight Download Statistics

Lies, Damn Lies, and Twilight Download Statistics

Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm yesterday received a lot of attention for a post she wrote arguing that that metered broadband suffers a "Twilight Problem" based on a series of calculations based around downloading the movie Twilight. Our ... continue
Time Warner Cable Customers: Say Good Bye to Nick, MTV and Comedy Central

Time Warner Cable Customers: Say Good Bye to Nick, MTV and Comedy Central

A break down in negotiations between Viacom and Time Warner Cable will mean customers on Time Warner's cable network, the second largest in the United States, will no longer be able to view Viacom channels from January ... continue
Yahoo Talks to Time Warner; Microsoft Meets with Icahn

Yahoo Talks to Time Warner; Microsoft Meets with Icahn

Yahoo's starting up direct talks with Time Warner, while Microsoft is meeting with Carl Icahn to plan for the future. Yahoo spent time with Time Warner over the holiday weekend, according to London's Times Online. The paper ... continue
Cable Company Looking At Web-TV Technology

Cable Company Looking At Web-TV Technology

Time Warner Cable is developing new technology to get into the television-based web game. CEO Glenn Britt tells Reuters his company is building a new wireless cable modem that'll let customers hook their whole homes up to the ... continue
A New Future For Time Warner

A New Future For Time Warner

Time Warner may be looking to take over new companies following its split from its cable unit. The media giant announced it's separating from Time Warner Cable this morning, a move that will bring in $9.25 billion in ... continue