The news genre must learn from other genres who have deeper pockets and far bigger revenues but far less desperation, say experts
End-to-end encryption, a term that is associated with most instant messaging and video calling platforms as means to provide added security to users' data and enhanced privacy
With Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) gaining ground globally, Indian brands from across categories are now entering the space. Recently, Time Magazine’s Time Pieces and Associated Press’s photojournalism and Pultizer prize-winning images are some of the most-celebrated digital art pieces that have been launched by global media houses as NFTs.
The entertainment giant, which has rebranded its name to just Paramount, also reported $8 billion in revenue for its last quarter.
Paramount+ will enjoy favored nation status beginning in 2024 in terms of movies made by its sister studio. ViacomCBS chief Bob Bakish announced Tuesday during an earnings call that “Paramount+ will become the streaming home” for all theatrical releases from Paramount Pictures.
California’s legislature is poised to pass an extension to its incentives program through 2030, but other states are sweetening their deals to lure more production away from the Golden State.
The UK High Court has ordered six of the country's largest ISPs to block access to Mixdrop.me and Mixdrop.co. The injunction was requested on behalf of Netflix and several major Hollywood studios. The Motion Picture Association notes that this is the first blocking action in the UK that's aimed at a cyberlocker service hosting movies and TV shows.
John Grisham & Scott Turow have renewed their calls for service providers to do much more to combat online piracy. On the heels of an extremely complicated legal win over a number of pirate eBook platforms, the best-selling authors say that search engines including Google should delist pirate platforms completely and the government needs to step up funding for criminal enforcement.
The Pay TV market has seen an erosion of 4.6 million households in the last 12-15 months due to consumers migrating to free-to-air services, said Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) MD & CEO Punit Goenka.
ViacomCBS has announced that it will change its name to Paramount on Weds. Feb. 16, with shares of PARAA (Class A common), PARA (Class B common) and PARAP (Preferred Stock), starting to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange on February 17, 2022.