Netflix to raise $1 billion in foreign debt financing for content and more

 Netflix will raise a little over $1 billion (€1 billion) from “non-U.S. persons” via a new…

Books and roses

 Anyone who thinks paper books are dead has never been in a Barcelona bookshop the day…

How to make Twitter profitable

 Twitter has evolved dramatically since its founding. What the founders fully envisioned we cannot know. Nonetheless,…

Twitch opens up its money-making tools to tens of thousands of non-Partnered channels

 On the heels of yesterday’s news about expanded subscription options for partners, video streaming site Twitch today…

New partnership makes Google Play Music the default on all Samsung devices, with double the storage capacity

 Samsung and Google today announced a new partnership that will make Google Play Music the default…

Netflix rival iFlix reveals its first original content series for emerging markets

 Fresh from raising $90 million from investors in Match, iFlix, a Netflix-like service for emerging markets, has announced…

Spotify strikes new deal with indy giant Merlin, ‘competitive’ with big 3 labels

 Spotify — the streaming music company with 50 million paying users — has been working on renegotiating…

With revenue of $29.8 billion, Verizon’s first quarter earnings fall short of analyst expectations

 Verizon just released its first quarter earnings results, with adjusted earnings per share of 95 cents…