Andre Swanston

After its initial test on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) devices, Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) announced that it would bring Disney Movies Anywhere to Android. The deal means that consumers can now watch Disney films that they purchase on virtually any device, regardless of where it was originally...

Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) surprised investors Wednesday morning when the company announced that HBO Go, the online counterpart to HBO, would be available without a cable subscription in 2015. The monthly or annual fee has not been announced, but analysts expect a price between $9.99 and $15....

Moviegoers are hungry for The Hunger Games, but not everyone is willing to pay for a legal download. Tru Optik, a startup that provides real-time and predictive audience intelligence for the media, entertainment and advertising industries, estimates that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has an...

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has become the dominant player in cord-cutting, pay-TV content, but Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is determined to level the playing field. The dot-com retailer recently purchased the streaming rights for the first eight seasons of the hit TV series 24. This deal came after Netflix...

Game of Thrones is one of the most popular shows on cable, earning an average of six million viewers for the first airing of new episodes. That number rises with each repeat airing, along with online streams from Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) HBO Go. Peer-to-peer downloads greatly increase the total...

Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) HBO is losing millions of dollars to a large number of Game of Thrones fans who can't or won't subscribe to cable. Tru Optik, a startup that provides real-time and predictive audience intelligence for the media, entertainment and advertising industries, estimates that HBO...

Instead of waiting several days for free Hulu access to ABC shows, consumers are choosing to download them illegally. On January 6, Disney's (NYSE: DIS) mainstream TV network stopped offering free access to its shows (via Hulu.com and ABC.com) the day after they air. Hulu Plus and pay-TV...