January 25th, 2012
By Rolfe Winkley for The Wall Street Journal
Apple is breaking the law of large numbers.
With revenue up 73% in the quarter through December to $46 billion, the tech giant eclipsed analysts' expectations by an extraordinary $7 billion. The amount by which it beat expectations easily tops the entire quarterly revenue of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.
Thanks to the release of the iPhone 4S, Apple sold 37 million handsets in the quarter. That nearly doubles the company's previous record for handset-unit sales, set two quarters ago. Strategy Analytics analyst Neil Mawston estimates ...
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January 25th, 2012
By Rebecca Ford for The Hollywood Reporter
Women comprised only 5 percent of directors on the 250 highest-grossing movies last year, according to a study by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film.
With strong female casts such as Bridesmaids and The Help making waves in the awards race, it seems as if it has been the year of the woman in front of the camera.
However, behind the camera, women are still lagging far behind men in work in the film business. According to a study by the Center for the Study ...
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January 24th, 2012
By Lisa Richwine for Reuters (published in
The HuffingtonPost)
Netflix Inc probably would like nothing better than to put 2011 behind it. But 2012 may be no walk in the park either.
Investors, who have pushed Netflix shares up 50 percent since late November, believe the company that revolutionized the home video industry may have plugged a torrent of defections after a widely excoriated price hike and a bumbling attempt to hive off its DVD-mail business as "Qwikster."
But it still faces a deluge of competition, a tarnished brand, and a ...
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January 11th, 2012
By Cynthia Littleton for
Variety
Barely 3 years old, the Los Angeles-based TV arm of indie Entertainment One has made a mark in the network and cable biz by bringing to the table that most precious commodity: financing.
eOne Television, headed by CEO John Morayniss, leverages its heft as a producer and distrib of film, TV and home entertainment fare in Canada, the U.K. and other territories to cobble together coin for TV series in the same way that many indie features are funded, through a combo of foreign pre-sales ...
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January 10th, 2012
This is an excerpt from
an article by Lance Olanoff for Mashable
Now we know Google’s master-plan for integrating Google+ ever more deeply into the Google ecosystem: Pour the whole thing into Google search. Starting today, Google+ members, and to a lesser extent others who are signed into Google, will be able to search against both the broader web and their own Google+ social graph. That’s right; Google+ ...
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