If ’80s creep-out classics give you the heebie-jeebies (in a good way), Netflix’s first trailer for its original series “Stranger Things” is right up your alley. The show is a throwback to 1980s supernatural thrillers. Set for release next month, the eight-episode series is about the vanishing of a young boy from a small town. …

Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor is leaving the online video upload site, a smaller rival to Google’s YouTube. In a memo to staff Tuesday, Trainor said he was “stepping back” from Vimeo, though he will remain an advisor there as the chief of parent company IAC, Joey Levin, serves as interim CEO. Vimeo is often known as a high-brow YouTube. Like …

Silicon Valley billionaires with unprecedented power need to get used to the discomfort of press scrutiny, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton said Thursday. Gawker, a digital news organization, is fighting a devastating $140 million verdict in a case that was secretly funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. “A Silicon Valley billionaire is a hundred times, a thousand times more …

Live TV arrived online this year, and it’s going to cost you. The introduction of the first, legitimate Web-based television services happened in 2015. These new options stream live television channels. They include Sling TV from Dish Network and Vue on Sony’s PlayStation game console. These services are meant to be the final nudge that disgruntled pay-TV customers need to …

You heard right. Pandora wants to play just the song you ask it to spin. The online radio giant on Monday said it will buy most of smaller rival Rdio for $75 million in cash. As a result, Pandora plans to roll out new services next year that include on-demand listening. The deal underscores the pressure Pandora, the Internet’s biggest …

Here’s a familiar refrain: YouTube just launched a new home for music. Thursday’s release of a dedicated YouTube Music app follows last year’s debut of YouTube Music Key, a subscription service that never expanded beyond a small, invite-only crowd of testers. It also comes after last month’s introduction of Red, the video site’s $10-a-month subscription service that strips away ads …

Erik Huggers is ready to jump-start Vevo. Six months ago, Huggers took command of the company, best known as home to many of the most popular music videos on the Internet. A revamp of its iPhone app, launched Thursday, is the prelude to more changes, he said, as Vevo updates its original content, considers new partners among social networks and …

Apple’s always orchestrated its music business to draw you in deeper, but now it’s playing for a different crowd. The Cupertino, California, electronics giant Tuesday released a test version of its Apple Music streaming service for Google’s Android operating system, the mobile software that powers the majority of the world’s devices. The company’s only other major Android app helps you …

A cuddlier, friendlier Reddit is taking a page out of the Netflix script. Reddit, the social news site that bills itself as “the front page of the Internet,” on Wednesday debuted its first free-standing video series, a collection of documentary shorts about the intersection of humanity and machine called “Cyborg Nation.” The idea was championed by Reddit co-founder and Chairman …

Amazon’s comedy series “Catastrophe” doesn’t stray far from the truth. Writers and actors Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney drew from their own lives to create the show about a Boston businessman and London school teacher who bumble through a relationship after their four-day fling results in an unexpected pregnancy. “Everything catastrophic within the series really happened to us,” says Horgan, …