The trade group that represents Hollywood loathes President Obama's opposition to SOPA but that won't stop Tinseltown's biggest names from pouring cash into his re-election bid. In their coverage of the first California fundraising trip since Congress sh

If you’re a tech/new media company that wants to distribute cable TV shows, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman is happy to chat with you. Provided you’re willing to get your head around a couple of ideas: If you want to buy old shows that now have limited value

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) plans to announce a deal with Viacom (NYSE:VIA) to launch an online subscription service this week, according to Reuters.The move comes in the wake of hints Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman made last week on a CC.Reuters reported that

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For the top stories in tech, follow us on Twitter at PCMag. Amazon has permanently changed the publishing industry and the way we purchase books. Now, according to a new report, the company is poised to deliver the same kind of major change to the onlin

The European Central Bank will make major concessions for Greece through an agreement to exchange its government bonds, previously purchased in the secondary market, at a price below face value as opposed to the full amount, according to The Wall Street

Wednesday, February 8, 6:41 AM Amazon (AMZN) plans to announce a deal with Viacom (VIA, VIA.B) to launch an online subscription service this week, according to Reuters. The move follows up on hints dropped by Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman last week on a CC.

According to Reuters, last week Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman told Wall Street analysts the company would be announcing a new online video deal this week, but didn't name the partner. Amazon is keen to open up its streaming service to more than

Published: 11:30 PM EST (08:30 PM PST) Amazon is reportedly close to finalizing a Web video licensing agreement with Viacom and is nearly ready to launch a standalone video subscription service that would challenge Netflix. People familiar with the negot

Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc. The online retailer will unveil the deal as soon as th

Amazon and Viacom expected to tie up The mystery Viacom video deal was attached to Amazon Tuesday in a leak Tuesday. While the terms of the deal weren't known to Reuters , it would be part of a rumored plan to offer Internet subscription video as an opti

Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc. The online retailer will unveil the deal as soon as thi

Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman Major Hollywood studios are still reeling from last month's resounding defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act. The latest sign of the studios's changed posture is a letter that Paramount Pictures has

Just because kids can watch SpongeBob on Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) now doesn’t mean they are turning their backs on Nickelodeon. According to the report, Viacom (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:VIAB) CEO Philippe Dauman said Thursday during a conference call that the kids c

It’s SpongeBob to the rescue. Cable powerhouse Viacom, struggling with an ad slump at its Nickelodeon network, is banking on a slew of new episodes of hit shows such as “SpongeBob SquarePants” to offset a puzzling decline in audiences at the top-rated ki

Viacom's CEO Philippe Dauman thinks that "mob mentality" doomed SOPA and PIPA. Of course he wasn't saying that about YOU, it was those other people that opposed SOPA that he was talking about. He even went as far as to say "It became almost religious dog

A ratings slump at Nickelodeon, traditionally the leading cable channel for children, and a legal fight with the makers of the video game Rock Band contributed to lower earnings for Viacom in the last three months of 2011, the company said Thursday. A 3

The soft scatter market has taken a bite out of Viacom’s wallet, as the entertainment conglomerate reported a 3 percent drop in advertising dollars in the last quarter of 2011. In the final three months of the year, Viacom’s cable networks group took in

Updated 1:10 p.m. ET Lower ad sales and ratings at networks including Nickelodeon contributed to lower earnings for Viacom's first fiscal quarter. Net earnings dropped to $212 million, or 38 cents a share, from $610 million, or $1 a share. Those figures,