Netflix’s Cheer star and former Joe Biden presidential campaign surrogate Jerry Harris has been arrested and charged with producing child pornography. The Netflix star has been arrested on production of child pornography charges, per the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago, according to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times. A criminal complaint filed on Thursday alleges that Harris had asked…
Only about 10% of India’s 1.3 billion people know English. Yet, scores of firms operating in the country offer their services only in English. Netflix, one such company, said on Friday it’s aiming to break through the language barrier. The American on-demand video streaming giant today rolled out support for Hindi, a language spoken by…
Although Netflix received 24 nominations (the most of any studio) at this year’s Oscars, its films only ended up winning two awards. Laura Dern was named Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing Nora, a flashy divorce attorney in “Marriage Story” — the only award that “Marriage Story” won from its six nominations. And “The…
March will be a defining month for Netflix as Disney+ goes global. Walt Disney’s streaming is enjoying faster growth in the U.S. than Netflix in its early days. Disney’s strategy of “quantity over quality” may change the calculus in the online video streaming sector. Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) chairman and CEO Bob Iger described the media and…
Netflix’s The Witcher series has finally dropped on the streaming service. Many fans’ reactions on Twitter have been overwhelmingly positive. Some minor criticisms were leveled at a perceived ‘feminist agenda’ underlying the writing of the series. Netflix has finally dropped its series based on The Witcher and it’s pretty amazing. At least, it’s amazing if…
Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I talked about the Capital One breach and how Equifax taught us…
