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Halo 4 Players Will Get Free Weekly "TV" Episodes on the Xbox
As one of the biggest videogame franchises in history, the Halo series has sold more than 42 million copies to date, generating nearly $3 billion in total sales. The game has been so successful it has...
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TV's Real Weak Spot (Hint: It's Not "Game of Thrones")
Moan about it all you want, but you’re not getting “Game of Thrones” for a long time without paying for cable. The same goes for the summer Olympics: If you want to watch every single event from...
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Hey Internet Girl: Aaron Sorkin's TV News 2.0 Show Gets a Second Season (Video)
Hollywood super-writer Aaron Sorkin has already gotten his new show on the struggles of creating a new television news show in the Internet age renewed for another season. The successful Sorkin made...
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HBO Ignores Internet Geniuses, Sells More HBO
We all agree that it would be awesome if HBO would let us subscribe to the pay-TV service without paying for TV, via the Web. And many of us agree that HBO will eventually do that, one day. Maybe. For...
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More Heavy Hitters Sign On to D: Dive Into Media 2013 -- HBO's Kessler, Live...
Last month, we announced our second Dive Into Media conference, and you guys told us you liked what you heard. Thanks! Here’s Act Two: We’ll have top executives from HBO and Live Nation joining us in...
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Netflix Says Amazon Is Gaining and HBO Is Coming
Another earnings report, another wild swing in share price for Netflix: The stock is down double digits this afternoon, even though the company’s earnings of 11 cents a share handily beat the Street’s...
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Louis C.K. Comes Back to HBO, but Doesn't Ditch the Web, Either
Last year Louis C.K. earned the love of the Internet by cutting out the middlemen and selling his comedy special directly to his fans, over the Internet. Other comedians — and at least one start-up —...
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Want to See Why You Can't Get HBO or Showtime Without Paying for Cable? Watch...
“Hey, stupid TV companies!” the Internet says, over and over. “Stop making us sign up for pay TV to see your shows!” “Not gonna happen,” comes the response from the TV guys, over and over. “Not anytime...
View ArticleGag Gifts for Geeks (Comic)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Viral Video: HBO's "Game of Thrones" Back for More Geek-tastic Adventures
As with “The Lord of the Rings,” the fantasy adventure saga “Game of Thrones” — the book turned into an HBO hit — is a favorite of the Silicon Valley geekosphere (Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is a huge...
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Winter Is Coming (Geeks, Too): HBO Premieres New Season of "Game of Thrones"...
It’s no secret in Silicon Valley that the HBO series “Game of Thrones” is a big favorite among the geek set — including Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — what with its dungeons-and-dragons...
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Winter Is Coming, Today! "Game of Thrones" Meets AllThingsD.
Last week, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, premium cable powerhouse HBO debuted the third season of its hit series “Game of Thrones” for a huge audience of Silicon Valley geeks, VCs,...
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HBO Explains Why It's Not Going A La Carte Anytime Soon
Buy HBO without paying for cable TV? To a bunch of you, that sounds very exciting. But it’s not happening anytime soon. On Wednesday, HBO CEO Richard Plepler floated the notion of letting broadband...
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“I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts … [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.” – HBO programming...
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Sorry, Cord-Cutters! Still No "Game of Thrones" for You.
Nope. You’re still not getting “Game of Thrones” — at least not the current season, at least not legally — without paying for cable. At least not in the U.S. Time Warner keeps getting asked about this,...
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Accel's Breyer Leads Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors Again, While...
Forbes magazine put out its much-watched Midas List today, which is kind of the Oscars for venture capitalists in tech. (Caveat: Think more khakis and dudes than glitz and glamour.) On the Top 10 list...
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The Color Purple: Yahoo Tries to Excite Consumers With Month-Long New Logo...
In yet another flashy PR effort under Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, the company’s marketing arm has ginned up an effort to get consumers talking about a new logo it plans on launching in a month and had...
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Kevin Spacey Goes All House-of-Cards on Hollywood (Video)
In case you missed this most excellent keynote speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival’s high-profile James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, actor Kevin Spacey gave what is perhaps the...
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It's No "Game of Thrones" Finale, but Yahoo Logo-Palooza Ends Tonight
Here are a few choice things I wait for in rapt anticipation: While “Game of Thrones” is on hiatus after its sensational “Red Wedding” finale, the next episode of “Orange Is the New Black” — which...
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Taking a Cue From "House of Cards," Machinima Releases Its Next "Mortal...
If you’re a gamer or a big YouTube video-viewer, you might have heard of “Mortal Kombat: Legacy,” an online video series that aims to add modern story sensibilities to the classic fighting game. The...
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HBO COO Eric Kessler -- Who Spearheaded Its Digital Strategy -- Is Departing
According to a memo from HBO CEO Richard Plepler, COO Eric Kessler will be departing the premium cable channel. “After careful consideration we have decided that the COO position does not best serve...
View ArticleHow I Did the Impossible: HBO Without Cable TV
Life as a cord-cutter, without a pay television subscription, isn’t as much of a fringe activity as it might seem. Lots of TV shows are available for purchase on iTunes, often right after they first...
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