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The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a “sleek, gold” phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, based on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (variety.com)
4 hours ago Trump Mobile AT&T

A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (variety.com)
4 days ago Apple Tim Cook

SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (variety.com)
6 days ago

Melania Trump releases an audiobook of her memoir with her “official AI voice” created by ElevenLabs, available exclusively on the ElevenReader app (variety.com)
24 days ago Trump AI

SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite (variety.com)
27 days ago AI

MoviePass secures a $100M capital investment from Global Emerging Markets to accelerate the development of Mogul, a fantasy gaming service launched this month (variety.com)
2025-5-16

Neal Mohan says the monetization rate of Shorts hit parity with core YouTube in the US and multiple other countries, and Shorts viewing grew 20% YoY in Q1 2025 (variety.com)
2025-5-16 YouTube

Warner Bros. Discovery says it will change the name of its Max streaming service back to HBO Max this summer, and tweaks its logo; WBD dropped HBO in May 2023 (variety.com)
2025-5-15

Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $26.65B, an all-time high but below $26.7B est. (variety.com)
2025-5-2 Apple

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.02B vs. $1.01B est., a net loss of $27.4M, compared to $50.9M a year ago, and stops posting streaming household figures (variety.com)
2025-5-2

Meta says it expects its capex for FY2025 to be $64B to $72B, an increase from its prior expectation of $60B to $65B (variety.com)
2025-5-1

Alphabet says it surpassed 270M paid subscriptions, driven by YouTube and Google One, and reports YouTube Q1 ad revenue up 10.3% YoY to $8.93B, vs. $8.97B est. (variety.com)
2025-4-25 Google YouTube Alphabet

The Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content “more accessible” in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers (variety.com)
2025-4-23

Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs. $10.51B est., net income of $2.89B, and stops reporting subscriber numbers on a quarterly basis (variety.com)
2025-4-18 Netflix

Q&A with Phil Spencer on A Minecraft Movie, potential IP for future movies, Microsoft's Hollywood goals, Fallout Season 2 and the Minecraft TV series, and more (variety.com)
2025-4-17 Microsoft

Tech stocks fell for a second day following Trump's tariffs announcement: Nvidia closed down 7.4%, Apple 7.3%, Netflix 6.7%, Meta 5%, and Amazon 4.2% (variety.com)
2025-4-5 Trump Amazon Apple Netflix Nvidia

Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on his 25-year anniversary at Netflix, his cameo on Apple TV+ series The Studio, competing with suppliers like Disney, and more (variety.com)
2025-3-20 Apple Netflix

RIAA: US paid music streaming subscriptions hit 100M in 2024; streaming revenue grew 4% YoY to $14.9B; revenue from ad-supported services fell 2% to $1.8B (variety.com)
2025-3-19

In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400+ Hollywood creatives urge President Trump to not let Google, OpenAI, and others “exploit” copyrighted works (variety.com)
2025-3-18 Trump Google

A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company (variety.com)
2025-3-9 Interview YouTube

YouTube says it now has 1B+ monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide; users watched 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices in 2024 (variety.com)
2025-2-27 YouTube

Warner Bros. Games shuts down three game studios and pulls the plug on a Wonder Woman game that had been in development for over three years (variety.com)
2025-2-26

Roku reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.15B est., a net loss of $35.5M, and streaming households up 12% YoY to 89.8M; ROKU jumps 10%+ after hours (variety.com)
2025-2-14 4Q

Sony reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $28.6B, operating income up 1% YoY to $3.05B, and gaming revenue up 16% YoY to $10.92B, driven by strong PS5 sales (variety.com)
2025-2-13 Sony

Amazon reports Q4 ad revenue up 18% YoY to $17.29B, vs. $17.4B est., and subscription services revenue up 10% YoY to $11.51B (variety.com)
2025-2-7 Amazon 4Q

Brookhaven, a top title on Roblox with 120M+ monthly players, was sold by its anonymous creator Wolfpaq to game developer Voldex for an undisclosed sum (variety.com)
2025-2-5

Alphabet reports YouTube Q4 ad revenue up 14% YoY to $10.47B, vs. $10.23B est., says Google Cloud and YouTube ended 2024 with a $110B annual revenue run rate (variety.com)
2025-2-5 Google YouTube 4Q Alphabet

Adobe Chief Strategy Officer Scott Belsky leaves the company to join A24 film studio as a partner; he co-founded Behance, which Adobe acquired for $150M in 2012 (variety.com)
2025-1-31 Adobe

The US Copyright Office says using AI tools to assist in creative processes doesn't compromise copyright protections as long as the content has human authorship (variety.com)
2025-1-30 AI

Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki to CEO, succeeding Kenichiro Yoshida, and PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino to CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, from April 1 (variety.com)
2025-1-29 Sony

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