Some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…

Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a series of key content deals, the streaming service looks like it could also be missing out on some of the most popular local TV…

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…

Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.

Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data.

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made a takeover bid for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal.

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has refused to give DVD rentals chain Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) its latest films, including The Hangover Part II and the final Harry Potter movie, in a row over the 28-day DVD sales window.

Haymarket Business Media’s digital strategy director Matthew Gerry is the latest to take a similar role at IPC. He is leaving to become the digital director of IPC’s Inspire men’s division (release).

—IPC Southbank: IPC Media’s Southbank division - which publishes Marie Claire, InStyle and Look - is promoting the digital editorial development director of its fashion section, Anthony Thornton (pictured), to be the division’s digital director.

—IPC: The magazine publisher is promoting digital programme director Tara Hamilton-White (pictured) (reporting to digital director Neil Robinson) to be digital development director and social media product manager Cathy Ma to be head of social media (reporting to Hamilton-White).

If you think Android is a fragmented marketplace, take a look at mobile advertising: while there are clearly a few very big players like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), there are dozens of independents, offering slightly different twists on the business model, that are continuing to see big…

Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. For ¥1,480 a month or roughly $18.50, Japanese subscribers can watch across an array of devices just like U.S. subscribers of Hulu Plus with one exception—Hulu Japan…

Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new—Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie venture yet, the latest in a series of moves to mine the most ore possible from its rich…

We know Piers Morgan for his reality TV stints and his gig now as Larry King’s replacement on CNN. But before that he was a well-known tabloid editor in the UK, helming first the now-defunct News of the World and then the Daily Mirror. Speculating on whether he had had…

—Upstream: Simon Negus is the new COO for mobile marketing company Upstream. He joins from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where he had been a partner and general manager.

—Turner Broadcasting: The company has confirmed that Anthony Lukom is VP and GM of UK and Ireland for Turner in Europe. He will lead the broadcaster’s regional entertainment business, which includes the Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Cartoonito, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Adult Swim. He’s responsible for programming strategy, content syndication…

Novak Dkojovic and Petra Kvitova weren’t the only winners at Wimbledon this year. Fans who thinking watching sports live matters won big when the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club went with ESPN (NYSE: DIS) as the exclusive rights holder and its massive live schedule for the next 12…

Youku, the New York-listed “Chinese YouTube”, has gained a license from Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group’s CAV Warner Home Entertainment joint venture to stream up to 450 new and archive movie titles through its paying Youku Premium service.

—Twitter: It’s named SparkPR’s Rachel Bremer, who has done PR for plenty of tech startups, as its debut, London-based head of communications for Europe.