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Roku beats expectations with Q3 net income of $24.8M, vs. a net loss of $35.8M a year ago, and revenue of $1.21B, up 14% YoY; total streaming hours rose 12% YoY (variety.com)
13 hours ago

Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 1% (variety.com)
1 day ago Microsoft Xbox

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.01B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $74.18B, up from $65.85B a year ago (variety.com)
1 day ago Google YouTube Alphabet

EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale (variety.com)
2 days ago

EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game developer tools that serve as “smarter paintbrushes” (variety.com)
7 days ago AI

HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 (variety.com)
9 days ago

Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop “responsible” AI products and is building a generative AI research lab (variety.com)
14 days ago AI Sony Spotify

TiVo confirms that it exited the hardware business on October 1 when it stopped selling DVRs, but says it will continue to offer support for the products (variety.com)
17 days ago

Amazon unveils updates to Luna, including adding AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy and new GameNight original party games, available to Prime subscribers (variety.com)
30 days ago Amazon

Spotify and Amazon Ads announce a global partnership to give advertisers using Amazon DSP programmatic access to Spotify's streaming audio and video inventory (variety.com)
30 days ago Amazon Spotify

Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser will retire on December 31 after more than a decade with the company; Nintendo exec Devon Pritchard will succeed him (variety.com)
2025-9-26 U.S. Nintendo

Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June (variety.com)
2025-9-11 Amazon Netflix

Apple raises the iPhone Pro starting price by $100 to $1,099; the iPhone 17 Pro Max starts at $1,199, Air at $999, and 17 at $799, all available on September 19 (variety.com)
2025-9-10 iPhone Apple

YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US (variety.com)
2025-9-9 YouTube

Netflix plans to open its first Netflix House locations, 100K-sq-ft entertainment and shopping venues, in Philadelphia on November 12 and Dallas on December 11 (variety.com)
2025-8-25 Netflix

Apple raises the price of Apple TV+ in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (variety.com)
2025-8-22 Apple

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill sues Roblox, alleging among other things that it continues to facilitate CSAM distribution and the sexual exploitation of children (variety.com)
2025-8-15

Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 17% YoY to $1.42B, net revenue up 12% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.32B est., and raises its FY 2026 net bookings projection (variety.com)
2025-8-8

Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+, plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 and migrate Hulu's live TV subscribers to Fubo (variety.com)
2025-8-7

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (variety.com)
2025-8-2 Trump Bitcoin

Roku reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.11B, vs. $1.07B est., a net profit of $10.5M, and Platform segment sales up 18% to $976M (variety.com)
2025-8-1

Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. $26.8B est. (variety.com)
2025-8-1 Apple

Roblox launches a licensing platform to help IP rights holders collaborate with creators, with Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha as founding partners (variety.com)
2025-7-16 Netflix

Moonvalley, which is developing “ethical” AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M (variety.com)
2025-7-15 AI

London- and Paris-based Animaj, a kids' media company that uses proprietary generative AI production tools to automate animation pipelines, raised $85M (variety.com)
2025-6-18 AI London Paris

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)
2025-6-16 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)
2025-6-12 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)
2025-6-10

Melania Trump releases an audiobook of her memoir with her “official AI voice” created by ElevenLabs, available exclusively on the ElevenReader app (variety.com)
2025-5-24 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)
2025-5-20 AI

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