The world’s largest consumer products company has blocked access to video-streaming site Netflix and the music-streaming site Pandora on company computers. Procter & Gamble wanted to find out why its computers were running slowly, and discovered that the culprit was…
Yahoo announced Wednesday that it plans to cut 2,000 jobs — 14% of its staff — as the company moves to cut costs and refocus its priorities, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The layoffs were expected, the story notes. Said…
Discovery Communications has announced that it will rebrand its Planet Green cable channel, Deadline.com reports. Starting May 28, the channel will be called Destination America. Discovery said Planet Green “will turn red, white and blue.” “Destination America will be the…
Actor-director Robert Redford will revisit the Watergate scandal, the subject of his 1976 film "All The President’s Men," with a retrospective documentary from his new company Sundance Productions, reports Deadline.com. The two-hour documentary, "All The President’s Men Revisited," will be…
A sports analyst working for Fox is lobbying to become the first black "Bachelor," reports the New York Post. Fox Sports Northwest college basketball analyst Lamar Hurd posted a 10-minute audition video clip as part of a grass-roots campaign to…
After reports surfaced this week that Ashton Kutcher will play the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the upcoming indie film “Jobs,” one of Apple’s other co-founders offered his opinion on the casting, TMZ.com reports. According to Steve Wozniak, the…
AMC’s "Mad Men" has come under fire from Mitt Romney’s son Tagg, who took offense to a line in the show that called his late grandfather a "clown," reports TheWrap.com. The "Mad Men" episode shows Betty’s new husband, Henry Francis,…
The co-creator of CBS’s hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men" is under fire from some in the television industry after making the suggestion that there are too many comedies focused on women protagonists, reports The New York Times’ ArtsBeat….
It would be a stretch to call Apple’s eagerly anticipated new television set a game changer, according to a new analysis by Barclays Equity Research, reports Deadline.com. The product will likely be introduced as early as 2013 and could capture…
James Murdoch, the son of News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch, has resigned as chairman of British satellite broadcaster BSkyB, CNN reports. The move comes after James Murdoch has become increasingly mired in News Corp.’s U.K. phone-hacking scandal. CNN reports: “He…