The rise and fall of Flash: the annoying plugin that accidentally created the modern web . On June 9th, 2008, about an hour into Apple’s annual WWDC keynote presentation in California, the breakthrough Rob Small was waiting for exploded ...

Spotify Dismisses Amazon’s High-Definition Audio: ‘It’s Not a Big Differentiator’ . At the moment Amazon Music launched its new high-definition audio service on Tuesday morning, which it says offers the best streaming audio fidelity ...

Amazon Music rolls out a lossless streaming tier that Spotify and Apple can’t match . Amazon is launching a new tier of its music service today, dubbed Amazon Music HD. It offers lossless versions of audio files for streaming or downloading at a price that aggressively undercuts Tidal, the main competition for this kind of audio. Amazon will charge $14.99 a month for the HD tier, or ...

Walt Disney Studios Teams Up With Microsoft to Make Movies in the Cloud (EXCLUSIVE) . The Walt Disney Studios has partnered with Microsoft to move key parts of its movie-making and distribution processes to the cloud. The five-year ...

What ‘Pay TV 3.0’ will mean for viewers and channels . The replacement for the traditional program grid might not be a smoother, sleeker table of channels and times. Instead, many viewers may navigate ...

Disney CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple’s board . Disney CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple’s board, just a couple of months before both companies are set to launch their independent streaming services.

Iger resigned on September 10th, according to a filing from Apple to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. That’s the same day Apple ...

TV industry entering 'second wave of disruption', claims BBC chief . BBC director-general Tony Hall believes that the television industry is about to enter “a second wave of disruption” because of new entrants in the streaming market.

However, Lord Hall said the changes presented an opportunity for the BBC and that people would still choose it for “ethical reasons”. ...

A Decade of Music Is Lost on Your iPod. These Are The Deleted Years. Now Let Us Praise Them. . From the late 1990s until whenever we stopped burning things onto compact discs, I gave my friends, family, and colleagues a year-end best-of mix as my Christmas card. I kept it to my favorite 20 songs of the year, the final track listings subject to last-minute switches, bold additions, and ...

Berenberg: 'Britbox uncompelling’ . Berenberg Bank says Apple TV+ adds to the pressure on Britbox and that the ITV/BBC service will struggle to penetrate against global players.

The bank ...

Netflix rival Disney+ won't launch in the UK until 2020. Here's why . The Disney+ streaming service is coming, with the kind of catalogue – from Star Wars to The Avengers and The Simpsons – that'll strike fear into the ...