From its press release:
Netflix expects to maintain Warner Bros.’ current operations and build on its strengths, including theatrical releases for films.
“Expects” is doing a lot of work there. But responding to an investor question about theatrical plans, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said:
I wouldn’t look at this as a change in approach for Netflix movies or for Warner movies for that matter.
WBD’s board of directors determined that “this structure – Warner Bros. joining Netflix, and Discovery Global becoming a focused standalone company – provides the strongest long-term foundation for both sets of businesses,” Zaslav says.
Spotify shared its methodology on how your Spotify Wrapped is made in a new blog post. More than 200 million people engaged with this year’s Wrapped in “the first ~24 hours alone,” CEO Daniel Ek said.
TweakTown says it has “received confirmation that Warner Bros.’ games studios, IP, and content will indeed be part of the transaction.”
Initially, developers can only use the Wearable Device Access Toolkit to make apps for the Ray-Ban Meta and the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, but Meta’s Tyler Yee says the toolkit will be available for the Meta Ray-Ban Display and Oakley Meta Vanguard “soon.”
The company follows T-Mobile and Verizon in doing so. AT&T plans to buy just over $1 billion of wireless spectrum licenses from US Cellular but needs approval from the FCC, according to Reuters.
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Threads will test a feature where you can include “dear algo” in a post to add more or less content on whatever you’re writing to the algorithm about to your feed, according to Threads boss Connor Hayes.
