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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu has swapped its CEO, saying Tuesday morning that Mike Hopkins has stepped down, and Randy Freer has been named as CEO. Hopkins had been CEO of Hulu since 2013. The two said Freer will be based in Los Angeles. Hopkins is leaving for Sony Pictures Television.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Los Angeles-base streaming television service Hulu announced on Friday that it is upping the price of its Hulu with Live TV service to $54.99, up from $44.99, in what is a fairly significant bump in its subscription rate. The price hike will impact both new and existing subscribers to the service.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu , and streaming music provider Spotify have launched a new effort, which bundles both services together for just $9.99 The Hulu service included in the bundle is Hulu's commercially supported service. a month, the two announced today. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 11, 2017

Roofstock , a startup which operates an online marketplace that lets investors purchase homes online as investments, has launched in Los Angeles, the company said on Thursday. The company said Los Angeles is its 14th market. Roofstock called the Los Angeles metropolitan area an "increasingly important U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu has dropped support for Google's Daydream VR platform, according to a report on Thursday, which makes it impossible for owners of Google's VR headset to access Hulu content. Hulu quietly dropped the support in the past couple of weeks. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Hulu and a brand new startup, Humu , are engaging in the courts, after Hulu threatened to sue Humu over trademark infringement. Humu is developing machine learning software aimed at human talent development, and was founded by ex-Google employees.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based Hulu said on Wednesday that it is dropping the pricing on its ad-supported service, Hulu Originals, and will offer up the service for only $5.99 Hulu also offers up a premium, ad-free version, Hulu (No Ads), for $11.99, and another service which includes live TV for $44.99 READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

A new deal by Los Angeles-based Hulu this morning will add content from Nickelodeon to Hulu's premium service, Hulu Plus. Puppy," and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" to Hulu for the first time. Hulu said the deal is part of an expansion of an existing, content deal the company has with Viacom.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu , in a major move to reduce its impact on the environment, has moved its data centers to a 100 percent, renewable energy data facility in Las Vegas. Hulu said its new 100 percent renewable data center takes up 2.4 million square feet across 12 buildings.

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APRIL 25, 2019

It appears that another one of the owners of Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu may be looking to unload its current, minority stake in the company, according to a report from CNBC this morning. According to CNBC, Comcast is looking to sell its current 30 percent stake in Hulu to Disney. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu appears to have suffered a major outage on Sunday, prompting a rash of complaints on social media. It's unclear what the cause of the issue was, which mostly hit the Eastern half of the United States.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu and AT&T said on Monday that Hulu has acquired AT&T's 9.5 AT&T and Hulu said the deal values Hulu at $15 billion. Hulu did not say what the source of financing was for the deal. percent stake in the company, worth $1.43 READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu said this week that it has added two new "add-ons" for its Live TV subscribers, including both a new set of Spanish channels, as well as new Entertainment content. Hulu also said it will be launching Discovery Networks on Hulu with Live TV later this year.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu has inked a deal to stream every episode of South Park , the site said over the weekend, According to Hulu, all seventeen seasons of South Park--over 200 episodes--are now available on Hulu. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu is launching its own, private programmatic advertising marketplace , which will make all of its live and on-demand TV inventory available to advertisers, according to a report. The programmatic marketplace is set to launch on January 1st. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu launched a Black Friday special on its service this weekend, offering up access to its content for a mere 99 cents per month for 12 months. The special offer --which was still available on Tuesday morning--is a giant discount from Hulu's usual $7.99 READ MORE>>.

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MAY 3, 2017

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu has officially launched its new, live TV streaming service into beta, saying it will offer up more than 50 sports, news, entertainment, and kids' channels for $39.99

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Hulu , the online television and video streaming service based here in Los Angeles, has just rolled out a new section entirely devoted to children's shows, the company announced this morning. Hulu said the new section makes it easier for kids to access their favorite shows, and are commercial free. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu has added five channels from Discovery Brands , including Discovery Channel , TLC , Investigation Discovery , Motor Trend and Animal Planet , the company said on Wednesday. Financial details of the new distribution agreement were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

AT&T is looking to possibly sell its 10 percent stake in Los Angeles-based television streaming service Hulu , as part of its plan on digesting Time Warner. According to At&T CFO John Stephens, the company may sell of its 10 percent stake in Hulu as part of a larger sale of "non-core" assets after it paid $85.4

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The Los Angeles winners of the Deloitte Fast 500 ranking of fastest growing companies was announced last night at an event at Santa Monica's Shutters on the Beach, with 26 companies recognized in the overall 2011 Technology Fast 500, and three "Technology Rising Stars" recognized in the Los Angeles area.

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APRIL 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu said Thursday that the company has officially launched on Amazon''s new, living room video player--the Amazon Fire TV. hulu amazon firetv fire streaming video player livingroom living room television content hollywood' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu said last week that it now has more than 1 million subscribers to its live TV streaming service, bringing its total subscribed base to around 20 million users. The service lets users "flip" between different channels. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Imax to launch VR arcade in Los Angeles, former Snapchat executive alleges app misrepresented growth numbers, and Hulu to add CBS to live streaming service.

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JULY 12, 2013

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu will receive $750M in a funding round, and continue to be owned by 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and The Walt Disney Company, those firms announced Friday morning, as the companies have decided not to sell their stake in the onlie television site. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu says that roughly half of all of its Hulu Plus subscribers are now streaming exclusively to devices, with the other half from the living room, the company said this week. hulu plus devices content hollywood television' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based Hulu has added a big new library of family friendly entertainment to its Hulu Kids section today, with a deal with Jim Henson Family to show Fraggle Rock and ten other related series. fraggle rock hulu series content hollywood muppets henson jimhenson puppets' READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu is up to its usual tricks for this time of year , and said on Friday that it has launched a brand new service called Hu , which it says condenses the entire episode of popular series into eight seconds or less, and lets viewers "stream entire seasons" of popular TV shows in "under five minutes."

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu has rolled out a fun new tool to help you channel your holiday spirit (or lack of holiday spirit) into an animated GIF, with a new service called the Hulu Perfect GIF Generator. hulu animated holiday card video hollywood streaming' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A report, from Variety, says that Disney is looking to buy AT&T 's stake in Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu. According to the report, Disney is seeking to purchase the portion of Hulu which is owned by AT&T's WarnerMedia unit. No deal has been reached or announced yet. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu said Tuesday that it has named Tian Lim as its new Chief Technology Officer. Hulu said that Lim replaces Brad Suter, who had been overseeing the company''s technology team on an interim basis. hulu executive sony xbox' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud provider, for its new over-the-top (OTT) live TV service it launched in May. According to AWS, Hulu is using AWS to support the more than 50 live channels on Hulu.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu , and streaming music provider Spotify , hoping to hook college students on their services, said on Thursday they are rolling out a new entertainment streaming bundle for U.S. Hulu and Spotify hinted at future, bundled offerings targeted at "the broader market" in the future.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Los Angeles-based Hulu said today that it has named a new Senior Vice President of Sales. According to Hulu, it has named Peter Naylor--who was previously Executive Vice President of Ad Sales for NBC News Digital--to the position. hulu sales executive video streaming content television' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu announced late Friday that it has named Elaine Paul as its new CFO. Paul replaces Tom Fuelling, who had been at Hulu since 2007. Hulu said that Paul had been involved in Disney''s original investment in Hulu back in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 2, 2019

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu says it has upped its total number of customers to 28 million in total, with 26.8 The company shared the subscriber numbers as part of a presentation at its annual "Hulu Upfront" event in New York City. million of those being paid subscribers.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu said today that its Hulu Plus subscription service has just passed six million subscribers, which it credited to both exclusive access to broadcast and cable shows, as well as its own original content effort, Hulu Originals. READ MORE>>.

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