AT&T mobile customers visiting Cuba should be able to connect there more easily, thanks to a roaming and interconnection deal with telecom provider Empresa De Telecomunicaciones De Cuba, known as ETECSA. The company said Monday it would specify wireless roaming availability and pricing there at a later date. Typically, deals like this make voice calls …

Once you’re done binge-watching “Breaking Bad” on Netflix, follow the lead of one of the show’s writers and switch to a heartwarming tale about a young girl’s plucky adventures in 1890s Canada. Online-video service Netflix said Monday it will stream “Anne,” an eight-hour miniseries based on the 1908 classive novel “Anne of Green Gables,” in partnership with a Canadian broadcast …

Microsoft has bought Genee, a technology startup making bots to help set meetings and manage your calendar. The company didn’t disclose terms of the takeover in its announcement Monday. Genee’s virtual scheduling assistant is powered by natural language processing, artificial intelligence and chat bots. Co-founder Charles Lee said in a blog post that Genee will cease to operate as a …

Hulu scored a major investment and a cache of high-profile channels for a live-TV service it plans to launch next year, as key programmer Time Warner agreed to buy a 10 percent stake Wednesday. The streaming service, which is owned by three of the country’s main broadcast networks, plans to launch a paid option next year that broadcasts live TV …

Online music-video company Vevo said Tuesday it has sealed a license with the last of the three major labels, Warner Music Group, to add selections of Warner’s official videos into the Vevo library. It already has videos from the two other majors, Universal Music and Sony Music Entertainment, which together own Vevo. (YouTube’s parent Google and outside investor Abu Dhabi …

Hulu has sealed a deal to become the only non-Showtime source for streaming “Homeland,” the premium cable network’s tense terrorist-espionage series. Starting immediately, people who subscribe to either of Hulu’s plans ($7.99 a month with commercials or $11.99 a month without ads) can watch the first four seasons of the show, Hulu said Monday. The Emmy-winning series concluded its fifth …

Candid, an anonymous-sharing app aiming for frank debate, launched Thursday, the brainchild of Google vet Bindu Reddy. Reddy, Candid’s CEO and a former head of product for Google’s social apps, said she embarked to create Candid after she felt unable to share unfiltered opinions on mainstream social networks. “My social media network includes everyone in my life, from friends I …

Netflix said Tuesday that the creators of its true-crime documentary series “Making a Murderer” are producing new episodes for the streaming service. The new installments will continue to explore the defense of convicted murderer Steven Avery and his co-defendant, Brendan Dassey. The shows will follow their respective investigative and legal teams as they challenge their convictions. “We are extremely grateful …

Google has been ratcheting up its investment in European goodwill, aiming to spend about $450 million from 2015 to 2017 as EU regulators narrow their gaze on the search giant, according to a report by The New York Times. The company is pouring money into wide-ranging sponsorships, like an exhibition at a Belgian museum incorporating virtual reality, a fund to …

Can the Justice Department ever LMAO? The answer, briefly Tuesday morning, was yes. Screenshot by Joan E. Solsman/CNET In what appeared to be a staffers’ personal missive incorrectly published on the DOJ’s official account, the tweet linked to a CNN article titled “Campaign denies Melania Trumps’s speech plagiarizes parts of Michelle Obama’s.” “CNN is the biggest troll of them all …