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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple: 'App Store' not a generic term]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In an ongoing legal battle over its App Store trademark, Apple has hit back at Amazon.com, denying Amazon's claim that &quot;App Store&quot; is a generic term. In papers filed in federal court yesterday, Apple said it &quot;denies that the mark APP STORE is generic and, on that basis, denies that the Amazon Appstore forAndroid service is an 'app store.'&quot;Apple also told the court that it does not believe &quot;the words 'app store' together denote a store for apps,&quot; or that &quot;the words 'app store' are commonly used among many businesses to describe mobile software download services and further denies that the term 'app store market' is used to describe the market for mobile software download services,&quot; according to the documents submitted to the court.Apple sued Amazon in March after the company launched the Amazon Appstore for Android, saying Amazon using the term could &quot;confuse&quot; customers.Amazon countered the suit last month, telling a court that &quot;App Store&quot; is too generic, and asked for Apple's suit to be tossed out. To back up those claims, the company cited a quote from Apple CEO Steve Jobs during an Apple earnings call last October, where Jobs refers to similar offerings on Android as &quot;app stores.&quot;Meanwhile, Apple has also encountered opposition from Microsoft in its own attempt to trademark its App Store. Though Apple applied for the trademark in 2008, in January Microsoft told the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the term was too generic to merit a trademark, going so far as to bring in linguistic experts to parse the meaning of &quot;app store.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hulu eyeing half a billion in sales this year]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hulu CEO Jason Kilar(Credit:Greg Sandoval/CNET)Hulu is forecasting sales of close to half a billion dollars and more than a million Hulu Plus subscribers this year.In a blog posted yesterday, CEO Jason Kilar marked the end of the first quarter with some notable figures and projections about the company's recent past and upcoming future.The forecast of almost $500 million in sales for the year follows the first quarter in which revenue shot up around 90 percent compared with last year's initial quarter, according to Kilar. For 2010 as a whole, Hulu took in sales of $263 million.Touting the expected rise in Hulu Plus subscribers to more than a million this year after the pay option launched last summer, Kilar said that as far as he knows, this marks the fastest start of any online video subscription service.Of course, Hulu Plus has faced a bumpy road. Its initial $9.95 price tag, the inclusion of ads, and the limited selection compared with Netflix triggered complaints among many users. Competing against the likes of Netflix, Hulu was forced to drop the price of Hulu Plus to $7.99 in November.In an effort to expand its offerings, Kilar pointed out that Hulu increased its number of content partners to 264 in this year's first quarter, up from the 211 partners it had during the same time period a year ago. During that time, the company saw ups and down with its partners. Viacom broke off with Hulu early last year amid concerns that the partnership wasn't yielding enough revenue. However, a renewed deal between the two in February has since allowed Viacom shows from MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, and other cable channels to appear on Hulu and Hulu Plus.Hulu's &quot;content community&quot; is expected to earn around $300 million over the course of the year, said Kilar. The service is also boasting more advertisers: 289 for the first quarter of 2011 compared with 194 in the same quarter last year.Despite Hulu's rosy results so far this year and Kilar's positive forecast, the company and its CEO are in the midst of some challenges.Reports have arisen about tension between Hulu and its owners, NBC Universal, Disney, and News Corp. Hulu and its parents have reportedly long disagreed over key aspects of Hulu's basic business model, such as how much content should be free. Certain content providers themselves have also reportedly complained that Hulu brings in too little revenue and disrupts their other forms of distribution. Kilar almost certainly added fuel to the fire in February with a blog post in which he criticized traditional TV advertising and distribution.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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