Janko Roettgers
Hopin’s founder wants to reinvent the TV.
Johnny Boufarhat, the founder of the virtual events startup Hopin, is back with a stealth startup developing a voice-centric operating system for TV streaming devices.
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Roku sold to Fox because its CEO wanted to leave.
Roku CEO Anthony Wood wanted to follow Netflix’s playbook for an extended leadership transition. His board had other ideas.
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Plex co-founder Elan Feingold is back with a new music app.
Caldera Music brings your Plex music libraries and Winamp-style visuals to Apple TVs and Google TVs. Feingold is also building connected light fixtures and other weird and interesting hardware.
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You may be able to buy new Amazon and Roku streamers soon.
Remote controls for the companies’ still-unannounced streaming devices already passed through the FCC, and offer a few clues about what’s to come.
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Ads on your TV home screen?
For some users and indie developers, that’s a step too far. Now, they’re starting to fight back:
Monet is just one of a number of home screen replacements (or launchers, as they’re called among Android enthusiasts) that takes cues from Apple TV to bring a new sense of minimalism to Google’s streaming platform. Most of these launchers do away with the endless rows of content recommendations, the big hero images that try to get you hooked on the latest TV shows, and the increasing amount of ads and sponsored content.
The home screen rebellion
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The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.
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