Facebook’s threat to sue Guardian journalists to keep a privacy exposé about Cambridge Analytica buried was “not our wisest move,” the social network’s point person to the news industry says. “If it were me I would have probably not threatened to sue The Guardian,” Campbell Brown, head of news partnerships at Facebook, said Thursday at the …

Netflix is the latest tech giant to swipe a page out of Snapchat’s book.  Todd Yellin, Netflix vice president of product, said Wednesday that the company’s mobile app next month will add video previews, a row of vertical 30-second trailers that give you a peek at personalized titles the streaming company suggests for you.  Snap-owned Snapchat has been a farming …

Hey Netflix subscribers, if you’re streaming on more than three different devices, congratulations: You’re above average.  Netflix streamed to 450 million discrete devices just in the last month, the company’s chief product officer, Greg Peters, said Tuesday. With 117 million members as of the end of last year, the number of streaming devices for the average member works out to …

Now playing: Watch this: Otter’s app makes free voice transcriptions easy and… 2:08 If you don’t hate transcribing, it’s probably just because you don’t have to do it very much.  Otter, a new, free mobile app from a team of vets from Google and speech-recognition company Nuance, aims to make voice transcriptions become as easy and accessible as typing into …

For a regulatory filing, this is about as close as you get to a sick burn.   Spotify is double the size of Apple Music, its closest competitor in the streaming music market, the Sweden-based startup said in its filing for a planned initial public offering of shares.  In the IPO paperwork, Spotify said it wears the crown for the …

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a $3 million, three-month pilot program in the US to help metropolitan newspapers with digital subscriptions.  Called the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, the program will work with 10 to 15 metro newspapers, and it will include some unspecified funding grants. Mostly, it seems the program will focus on training publishers about digital subscriptions, not only on Facebook but …

US cable TV giant Comcast has offered to buy Sky TV, a major UK television company, undermining a long-standing takeover attempt by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox.  Comcast said early Monday that its offer values Sky at $31 billion, or £22 billion. The £12.50-a-share offer in cash is higher than the £10.75-a-share offer from Fox Inc. that Sky accepted 14 …

Playstation Vue is opening up its virtual TV service for mobile sign-ups. It’s a move that’ll result in some small modifications on your subscription, but it means you don’t have be in your home and jump through as many hoops to create an account.  Signing up online won’t change how much Playstation Vue costs. The service’s monthly rates start at …

CBS launched a free streaming TV sports network known as CBS Sports HQ on Monday, as more media companies look to virtual television to offset slipping ratings.  CBS Sports HQ is modeled on CBSN — a 24-hour online news network CBS launched in 2014 — with a sports spin. The sports service will present live news, game highlights and team analyses on connected devices. …

Alex Jones, the media personality behind the site InfoWars, has been put on notice about a potential ban from YouTube, according to a report.  The Alex Jones Channel, Infowars’ biggest YouTube account with 2.2 million subscribers, has received one strike under a “three strikes” policy for video violating the service’s content standards, CNN reported Friday, citing an unnamed source with …