As a purely financial matter, Netflix’s quarterly report should not have precipitated the absolute shellacking that the company’s stock suffered after-hours Monday, wiping out about $1 billion in shareholder equity.
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If you own the highway as well as several of the vehicles that use it, is it fair to tax everyone except your drivers? That’s essentially what Comcast did when it decided to exempt its TV-based Xfinity “On Demand” service for the …
The sun is quickly setting on Netflix’s streaming partnership with Starz. As previously reported, the two companies couldn’t hammer out a deal and, as a result, some 1,000 or so Starz titles — many from Sony and Disney — will …
“We don’t have any current plans to support Blackberry devices, including Playbook,” says a recent tweet from Netflix’s support account. It’s an issue that’s been a thorn in the sides of BlackBerry users for quite some time, but …
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is launching a new video-on-demand service aimed squarely at Netflix, in a move that illustrates accelerating competition for advantage over the digital living room.
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It turns out the ongoing Hulu versus Netflix faceoff for streaming domination has just been buffering in preparation for the latest battle. Within one week, both streaming video giants have shed their identities as mere content …
It’s a looming square-off of Shakespearean proportions: Smartphone colossus Verizon is buddying up with movie-rental-kiosk outfit Redbox to take the fight to streaming giant Netflix. Imagine Verizon’s press release articulated by …
What if Netflix could offer the same selection of streaming content but only use half the bandwidth to stream it? If nothing else, the possibility that subscribers won’t be bumping up against monthly caps because they want to …
Who will be the first to launch a serious competitor to Netflix’s Watch Instantly service? That question may be close to having an answer, as Amazon’s been tipped to spin off its “Amazon Prime” streaming video section as a …
We’re still some distance from a world where online streaming of content can truly challenge the dominance of television, but recent figures suggest that the number of households in the U.S. with at least one television actually …
It’s official: Netflix is now available in the U.K. and Ireland. The company launched its streaming service on Sunday, a much-needed bit of momentum after dealing with defecting users and plummeting stock prices.
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