The 1 million milestone for Michelle Phan’s Ipsy subscription commerce company puts the company on an annual sales rate of $120 million. Getty Ipsy, the beauty-sample startup of YouTube star Michelle Phan, isn’t itsy anymore. Next month, Ipsy will mail 1 million so-called glam bags, Phan said in an interview. The bags, which include large …
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US streaming music sales jumped from 5 percent of the market five years ago to 27 percent in 2014. Lexy Savvides/CNET Prophesies that streaming music is the future — whether as a threat or an aspiration — are starting to come true. Revenue generated by streaming music last year overtook that from CDs, the format that once floated the industry’s …
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Now playing: Watch this: Sony’s PlayStation Vue brings live TV to a PlayStation… 1:32 Sony on Wednesday launched its PlayStation Vue, an Internet TV service accessible — for now — just through its gaming console and only in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. The entry-level price is $49.99 a month. PlayStation Vue, which is offering 7-day free trials, is the …
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Once a song is shared on Twitter by a Rhapsody member, any follower can listen to the full track natively in Twitter — and the artist will be paid for the stream. Rhapsody Twitter is about to get louder, for longer. The subscription-driven music service Rhapsody will allow its subscribers to share full songs on Twitter starting Tuesday, making it …
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HBO will launch its online-only streaming service through Cablevision before the “Game of Thrones” season premiere. HBO Apple’s exclusive launch of HBO Now just became a little less exclusive. HBO and Cablevision said Monday they would launch the premium network’s online-only streaming service HBO Now through the cable provider’s Optimum Online Internet service. That means more people than just Apple …
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Videos shot with 360-degree cameras capture the entire point-of-view around the shooter at once. Joshua Goldman/CNET If you already feel like YouTube — the most-watched video site on the planet — is all around you, then 360-degree videos might make the sensation literal. The Google-owned video site plans to add the ability to upload 360-degree videos, clips shot with special …
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CBS CEO Les Moonves said his goal is to reach a deal with the NFL to include football games on CBS All Access. Getty Images CBS All Access, the broadcaster’s $5.99-per-month online streaming service, has more subscribers than the 100,000 people who have signed up for Dish Network’s Sling TV, CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves said Wednesday. “I’m not going …
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Cord cutters who want access to HBO’s online-only streaming service will have to go through Apple to watch the coming season of “Game of Thrones” concurrent with its airing on devices like smartphones and over-the-top boxes. HBO Attention, cord-cutting “Game of Thrones” fans: If you want to watch the new season of the hit fantasy while it’s new, you better …
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Getty AOL’s first-quarter earnings slid Wednesday under the weight of costs from restructuring and write-offs, with its better-than-expected revenue growth eking out a small profit increase only if all unusual items and tax effects were ignored. The company reported a profit of $9.3 million, or 11 cents a share, down from $25.9 million, or 32 cents …
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Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick is a clear response to Google’s popular Chromecast, and — to a lesser extent — Roku’s Streaming Stick and Mozilla’s Matchstick. Amazon Amazon is taking more than one page out of Google’s Chromecast playbook as it launched the rival dongle Fire TV Stick on Monday. And if you’re hunting for a killer deal, just be …
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