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- Photos (Apple)Photos, Apple's photo management and editing application, will find a picture if you simply describe it. Type "cat in a box" into its search bar, and the app…
- SpotifySpotify began not with a boardroom strategy but with a misheard word. When Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were choosing a name for their new company…
- Apple MusicApple Music arrived on the 30th of June 2015, carried in on a boast from Sony Music chief executive Doug Morris. On the 7th of June 2015, Morris told…
- Amazon Prime VideoOn the 7th of September 2006, Amazon launched a service called Amazon Unbox in the United States. This early iteration allowed users to download movies and…
- NetflixNetflix started not as a streaming service but as a company that mailed DVDs in red envelopes. Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings founded it on the 29th of…
- Peacock (streaming service)In January 2024, Peacock broadcast its first exclusive NFL playoff game. No postseason NFL game had ever been available only through a streaming service…
- Disney+Disney+ launched at midnight Pacific Time on the 12th of November 2019, in three countries simultaneously: the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands.
- HuluHulu launched on the 29th of October 2007, and its name came from a pair of Mandarin Chinese phrases. The CEO at the time, Jason Kilar, explained that the…
- YouTubeYouTube uploaded its very first video on the 23rd of April 2005 - a clip called "Me at the zoo" showing co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
- Twitch (service)Twitch is an American live-streaming platform that began its life in June 2011 not as a standalone product, but as a calculated spin-off carved out of a…
- CrunchyrollCrunchyroll launched on the 14th of May 2006 as a pirate site. It hosted East Asian shows subtitled by fans, operating entirely outside the law.
- Paramount+Paramount+ did not start under that name. On the 28th of October 2014, CBS Corporation switched on a service called CBS All Access.
- TED (conference)TED, short for Technology, Entertainment, Design, was born in February 1984 in the same moment Silicon Valley began to imagine the future out loud.
- SiriSiri was not born inside Apple. The voice assistant that would come to inhabit hundreds of millions of iPhones started life at SRI International, the…
- Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance sits at the center of how tens of millions of people track their money. By May 2024, the site counted approximately 150 million monthly active…
- DAZNDAZN signed Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez in October 2018 to a five-year, eleven-fight contract worth at least $365 million.