Disney is shuttering its Disney Movies Online service after the site failed to catch on with consumers, reports the Los Angeles Times. The site allowed consumers to buy or rent digital versions of Disney and Pixar movies to view on…
Twitter blew up all over Kim Kardashian after she tweeted Friday that she was "praying for everyone in Israel,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The star of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" received unpleasant responses from many of her 17…
ABC has canceled two drama series, B&C reports. The network will burn off the remaining episodes of freshman shows "Last Resort" and "666 Park Avenue," but will not place back orders for complete seasons. Both series struggled to build an…
Rupert Murdoch is facing criticism that he issued an anti-Semitic message after he wrote in a tweet that the "Jewish-owned press" is favoring Hamas over Israel in news coverage of the Gaza conflict, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder….
Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings claims rival Amazon.com is losing between $500 million and $1 billion a year as it buys streaming video content rights, reports The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD. Hastings said he came up with the numbers based…
Despite some projections that Apple would have an all-in-one TV set on the market in time for the holidays, it is looking unlikely, the New York Post reports, citing the poor state of the television set market may as a…
Former News Corp. President Peter Chernin has joined the board of Twitter, as the microblogging site wants to strengthen its relationships with media companies, reports Bloomberg. Chernin sent his first tweet shortly after Twitter announced his appointment, the story notes….
Actress Lisa Whelchel, who’s currently competing on CBS’s "Survivor," has the West Nile virus, reports KHOU-TV in Houston. Whelchel is best known as Blair on NBC’s 1980s sitcom "The Facts of Life." The actress reported the news herself on Facebook…
Macy’s isn’t showing any signs of dumping Donald Trump, despite a petition with almost 558,000 signatures that urges the department store to end its partnership with the “Celebrity Apprentice” host, reports Advertising Age. Macy’s has featured Trump in its television…
NBC has bought a comedy about a group of Generation Y friends whose lives have been affected by the Internet, reports Deadline.com. The project, called "iQuit," focuses on five friends seven years after graduating from UC Berkeley. One of them…