Beyond the Horizon with Jared Leto


YouTube co-founder creates ‘food lovers video net’

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen has launched a live, interactive video platform aimed at food lovers, called Nom. Chen and former engineering lead for YouTube Vijay Karunamurthy founded the service, which is designed to let users direct, produce and host their own food shows. “Nom is a place for food lovers,” said Chen. If you’ve ever snapped […]

Verizon pays $4.4bn for AOL

US-based telco Verizon will pay US$4.4 billion to acquire digital content and distribution group AOL. The deal represents a purchase price of US$50 a share, and comes as Verizon implements a strategy that includes targeting growth in OTT markets. The companies will be keen to ensure their merged group will fare better than AOL’s last major […]

AOL orders Jared Leto series, plots content switch

Online content firm AOL has ordered an original show from actor Jared Leto as it switches to a year-round commission strategy and scores a key deal with NBCUniversal. AOL’s latest slate includes Beyond the Horizon with Jared Leto, in which the Hollywood actors, a tech investor, looks into trends of the future; while The Crunch […]