Snapchat raised a whopping $537 million, a filing reported on Friday. The disappearing-message app is now worth $16 billion (CNBC), with $800 million in prior funding from Alibaba, Fidelity, York Capital, Glade Brook Capital and other investors. At the Re/Code conference on Tuesday, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel said the company won’t sell but will instead […]
Facebook jumped on the GIF bandwagon and is now allowing the animated looping vids in its newsfeeds. However, marketers and brands have yet to be granted access. For now, only personal Facebook accounts can drop a GIF link into a status update, where it will play for all of the user’s connections.
Just a week after FIFA officials were arrested for corruption charges and President Sepp Blatter was controversially reelected, FOX Sports is looking to put the athletes back in the spotlight as the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 kicks off this week. The company will deliver all 52 matches across FOX, FOX Sports 1 and FOX […]
A pair of game 7s helped propel NBC Sports over the weekend. Saturday night’s win by the Blackhawks nabbed a 3.27 metered market rating for the NHL game, which ranks as NBC’s highest overnight rating for an NHL game ever, excluding Stanley Cup Final games, according to Nielsen. Locally, Chicago drew a 26.6 HH rating, […]
Skip a newsletter last week? “In Case You Missed It” rounds up the top stories in each of our three daily editions, so you can be up on the latest news, Cynopsis-style, in the worlds of linear, digital, sports and kids television. Enjoy! FLAGSHIP Charter Communications announced plans to purchase Time Warner Cable, as well […]
Trevor Noah has a start date: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah makes its debut on Comedy Central Monday, September 28. The last hurrah for John Stewart, who announced in February he’d be leaving the late-nighter after 16 years, is August 6.
Tracy Morgan (30 Rock) will sit down with Matt Lauer on Monday’s Today show for his first interview since being critically injured in a June 2014 highway crash. On May 27, Morgan reached a confidential settlement with Walmart, whose truck rammed into the back of a limo van carrying Morgan and others. Comedian and passenger […]
Google revealed sales figures for its Chromecast OTT streaming device yesterday. Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President of Products, said that more than 17 million Chromecasts have been bought since their 2013 introduction. Also, Chromecast-ers have hit the cast button a cumulative 1.5 billion times, a 50 percent increase since January. They’re watching 66 percent more […]
Google Play announced a new family-friendly discovery experience designed to help parents find apps, games, movies, TV shows and books that are appropriate for their kids. On the Apps and Games and Movies + TV homepages, parents can browse content by age group by tapping the Family Star and Children’s Books Star buttons. They can […]
Tribune Media’s Gracenote is getting deep into the sports game. The company acquired Infostrada Statistics and SportsDirect, Inc. in a data play and is now launching Gracenote Sports. The new purchases now make Gracenote the first global provider of music, video and sports data, and “enable the company to provide one-stop data solutions for its […]
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