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Disney Life
Living
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Disney’s Netflix competitor to debut November 12th

Disney+, the entertainment giant’s video streaming service, will launch on November 12th. The service will be priced at $6.99 per month or $69.99 for a year. Company CEO Bob Iger shared a screenshot of the Disney+ UI on his Twitter site, and it features rows…

Youtube TV
Living
2 min read

YouTube TV’s Subscription Fee is Going Up

There are a few different forces fighting each other with YouTube TV right now. First is that the streaming service is still relatively new, especially taking into account how recently it was made widely available in the U.S., and it is likely lagging in…

Music Streaming
Living
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The music streaming competition just got Started

There is no shortage of players in the music streaming space and the metrics used to determine success are also pretty complex, but from one metric Apple Music just passed Spotify, but it’s too early to say for sure what this means for either company. Even…

Pandora NOW original musi
Living
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New Pandora NOW original music experience Went Live last April 4th

SiriusXM and Pandora have just announced a brand new exclusive music experience available for subscribers of the former and listeners of the latter: Pandora NOW. The feature mixes “Pandora’s extensive listener data” and “SiriusXM’s curatorial expertise” to…

Google Video Rental
Living
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Google offers Android users one 99-cent movie rental service

Haven’t seen Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper yet in A Star is Born? Google will let you rent it for only 99 cents from the Google Play Store. Android users are receiving a notification today about a special offer allowing them to pick one movie to rent from the…

Youtube Music
Living
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YouTube Music update brings option to download music to your phone

YouTube Music can’t compete with music players with complex, yet easy-to-access, library management when it comes to local playback, but it’s always nice to know that you have more options. Up until recently, you wouldn’t have that choice with YouTube Music,…

Spotify Duo
Living
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Spotify is going after couples with Duo plan

Spotify and Apple are engaged in a fierce battle over the domination of the thriving global music streaming market, with many other companies, including Google, Amazon, Pandora, Tidal, and Deezer fighting for scraps and trying to find ways to differentiate…

Apple TV 1
Living
4 min read

Apple takes on Netflix and cable with TV+ streaming service

Hours before the “It’s show time” event, Apple began streaming a Car Play footage of someone driving from Los Angeles to Cupertino, in a not-so-subtle hint that we are about to see a lot of Hollywood honchos arriving for the announcement of its new Apple TV+…

Netflix Redesign
Electronics
3 min read

Mobile-only Netflix and chill could be coming soon

While it doesn’t look like Apple will be unveiling a true Netflix-rivaling video streaming service next week after all, the global masters of “chill” and great encouragers of the binge-watching phenomenon are still in a constant pursuit of new subscribers.…

apple music
Living
1 min read

Apple Music wants to expand your musical knowledge

Apple Music doesn’t get a ton of attention compared to services like Spotify, but the service quietly has racked up a ton of subscribers simply due to the fact of Apple’s massive hardware install base. Those subscribers are a diverse set of people from around…

Comcast
Living
1 min read

Comcast beats Apple by announcing its own TV streaming service

Comcast beats Apple to it and announces its own TV streaming, the Xfinity Flex. Although Apple’s TV service isn’t official yet, the latest report claims it will work just like Comcast’s when it comes to content. However, Comcast’s Xfinity Flex is available to…

Netflix banner
Electronics
2 min read

Netflix CEO leaks that a major redesign is on the horizon

Remember when watching a movie from Netflix meant going online your desktop computer, ordering the number of videos that you subscribed to, and waited for them to arrive in the mail while you sent back those discs you already viewed? Back then, Netflix spent…

Apple Music scaled
Living
3 min read

Spotify says Apple Music has unfair advantages

The founder and CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek, announced today in a blog post that Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission (EC). The executive says that when it comes to Apple Music and the App Store, the company gives itself an…

Apple TV
Living
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No original shows at launch for Apple TV service

Apple’s TV service is still a no show, but that’s probably going to change very soon. The Cupertino-based company plans to use the March 25 event to outline how it will take on rivals like Amazon and Netflix, a new Bloomberg report claims. While Apple is…

Spotify S10
Living
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Free Spotify premium service for Samsung Galaxy S10 buyers

With the Samsung Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ all officially launching today, music streamer Spotify has announced that its Android app will be pre-installed on all three models in the U.S. Additionally, the Spotify app will come loaded out of the…