Netflix Hit With Class Action Suit By Angry Investors
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has been hit with a class-action suit by a group of disgruntled investors who claim the online movie-rental chain withh… Read more »
Why UltraViolet Produced More Questions Than Answers At CES
The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: A… Read more »
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight
In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon’s Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the… Read more »
After Starting Streaming Race, Starz Now Lags Behind HBO And Showtime
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read more »
Ultraviolet Movement Picks Up New Backer: Samsung
Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support t… Read more »
The Bleeding In The Home Entertainment Business Slowed In 2011
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The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more »
Interview Part 2: Netflix's Hastings Hurt By Criticism But Over Transition
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent the company has emerged from the “pain” of a consumer and investor backlash, after… Read more »
Interview Part 1: Netflix's Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though internati… Read more »
Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon's Lovefilm
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with pricepoints of £5.99 ($7.79) and €6.99… Read more »
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str… Read more »
Netflix Faces Higher Prices For HBO, Agrees To Doubled DVD Delays From WB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth a… Read more »
Netflix's 2 Billion Streaming Hours In Q4 Blows Away Competitors
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers appear to be spending far more time viewing the service’s streaming content than do users of any other onli… Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: The Age Of Ubiquity (For Some)
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This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from… Read more »
Linear TV Consumption Is Growing, But Is Ad Spend?
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When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more wa… Read more »
Report: In Europe, Not All Windows Open For Netflix
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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 seri… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: The Year In Paid Content, By The Numbers
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This is the last in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cov… Read more »
LoveFilm Signs Streaming Deal With Sony Pictures Television
Amazon’s LoveFilm is continuing its film and TV content rights war with U.S. rival Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), signing a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE… Read more »
Can Apple Shake Up TV Like It Has Mobile With Its iPhone?
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The anticipation and speculation surrounding what could be the next product on the cards for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) — Apple TV — raises some q… Read more »
France Telecom's Orange Looks To 3D And Xbox For New TV Bells And Whistles
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With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies… Read more »
If Netflix Is In Play, Here's Some Companies That Would Be In The Hunt
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Verizon is getting its full turn in the rumor mill. Last week, word had it that Verizon is looking to launch an OTT subscription service. Ne… Read more »
The Albert Pujols Deal Shows What's Wrong With The Pay TV Business
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When baseball great Albert Pujols signed a staggering 10-year, $254 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last week, he became… Read more »
With Netflix For Nook Color, Barnes & Noble Fights Against Kindle Fire
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is blurring the lines between the $199 Nook Color and $249 Nook Tablet with a major update for the Color, adding… Read more »
Post Its $3.6 Billion Cable Deal, Verizon Puts Brakes On FiOS Expansion
Last week, Verizon announced a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum from cable operators and resell their pay-TV services. This week,… Read more »
Updated: Apple TV Streaming Quietly Goes International
Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream sho… Read more »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
As Facebook Rolls Out Timeline, Netflix Inches Closer To U.S. Sharing Deal
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Two more advances for Facebook in its ongoing quest to make its service ever more sticky and useful for its 800 million-plus base of subscri… Read more »
Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Be Going International Sooner Rather Than Later
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire today is only on sale in the U.S., but according to one report that Fire could be spreading to the UK as soon as Januar… Read more »
Netflix CEO Compares Company To Bank Of America And Oakland A's
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Ouch. Reed Hastings addressed a room of investors and media experts today in a bid to reignite confidence in his company. After his curious… Read more »
Report: Verizon Considering Web-Based Video Service Aimed At Netflix
Verizon plans to offer a Web-video streaming service in places where it doesn’t already operate its FIOS Internet TV service, according to a… Read more »
Time Warner's Bewkes: 'Netflix Is Our Friend'
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Jeff Bewkes capped off a string of strange diatribes in which he has compared Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to “the Albanian army” and “a hamburger”… Read more »
Xbox 360 Leads The Way To Engaged TV
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Interactive TV, a phrase still used but painful to hear, grates like the name of an old girlfriend, conjuring up hopes long since unfulfille… Read more »
Interview: FilmFlex CEO To Netflix: Bring It On!
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The UK PPV movie JV owned by Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) is on an aggressive expansion that will see it unleash up to 10 white l… Read more »
In Surprise Ruling, Judge Throws Out Netflix Price-Fixing Lawsuit
A week ago, millions of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers received an email saying they would receive a payment over price-fixing in the onli… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-23-11
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» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens to Cut 17,000 Jobs (WSJ; Press release)
» James Murdoch quits the boards of Sun and Times… Read more »
Lovefilm Gets Its Defence In Early: Buys Netflix's Ad Slots
Amazon’s Lovefilm has bought up adverts under its rival’s business name, as Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) prepares to launch on Lovefilm’s home turf… Read more »
Netflix's Global Funding Makes Sense — If It Can Rescue Domestic
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fue… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-22-11
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» Penguin pulls e-books from libraries across the land, citing “security concerns” (paidContent)
» Oh, HP: Firm’s Q4… Read more »
Netflix Will Rely On Rival Amazon's Cloud For Years To Come
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) may compete in online movie streaming – but the former plans to remain a customer of the latter… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-18-11
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» Yelp Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO of Consumer-Review Internet Site (Bloomberg)
» Has The Kindle Fire Already… Read more »
Netflix's Email About DVD Price-Fixing Settlement Leaves Customers Confused
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers received a surprise e-mail yesterday saying they were eligible to receive cash or a gift card for a price-f… Read more »
