This whole Netflix-Qwikster split had a fair number of people wondering if Reed Hastings had lost his mind. Hastings is no dummy, though, so there’s got to be some sort of method to the perceived madness.
Industry analyst Michael Pachter wrote in a note to clients the very same thing; that there’s “a method to their madness,” reports …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
This week HP is back in the news again, this time because they’ve fired CEO Leo Apotheker and hired board member and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. …
Netflix—er, Qwikster, wants you to stick around as a DVD-by-mail subscriber and, as Conan O’Brien has discovered, it’ll do just about anything short of reverting back to the original pricing structure to get you to stay.
Team CoCo has somehow gotten its hands on a second apology video from Netflix (see above), wherein the company …
The New York Times has published a stunning takedown of HP’s board of directors, accusing the board of being “rife with animosities, suspicion, distrust, personal ambitions and jockeying for power that rendered it nearly dysfunctional.”
This very board, according to All Things D and Bloomberg, is thinking about ousting HP’s current …
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, making the case not only that Google is not evil, but also that it’s not Microsoft.
Thirteen years ago, Bill Gates testified before the same panel to defend Microsoft from allegations that it abused its market …
It’s called ‘Internet Essentials’ and if you have at least one child receiving free school lunches, you may qualify to sign up for what’s essentially cable service provider Comcast’s $9.95-a-month Internet plan. That’s a savings of about $20 a month, since it’s the same plan, feature-wise, as the one everyone else pays $30 a month …
Netflix is losing in the court of public opinion after announcing plans to rebrand its mail-order DVD service as a separate business, called Qwikster. On Facebook and Netflix’s own blog, the vast majority of comments about the shake-up are negative.
If you missed the news, Qwikster will replace Netflix’s mail-order service and will …
The best-known name in the business of renting DVDs by mail is, of course, Netflix–a brand that’s been with us since 1998, and which is as synonymous with its category as any American company ever has been.
But now it’s reserving the name “Netflix” for its streaming business and redubbing the snail-mail portion as …
So much for RIM’s brief PlayBook sales “surge” to “4.9% of the tablet market”: The company’s losing market share “much faster than expected to rivals Apple and Google,” reports Reuters this morning.
RIM took another bath in red ink yesterday, when it revealed its quarterly profits had plummeted, sending the company’s shares tumbling …
As calls for comprehensive online privacy legislation get louder, Congress is looking to the experience of our cousins across the Atlantic where the European Union has had strict privacy regulations for over 15 years. What they’re finding is that privacy protections come with tradeoffs.
At a House hearing yesterday, M.I.T. Professor …
Half a million copies of Windows 8—and probably more than that by now—are officially in the wild, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft released a preview version of its upcoming tablet-angled Windows-rethink on Tuesday, and it looks like 500,000 copies leapt across the digi-sphere in less than 24 hours.
Windows 8 looks …
Watch out, IBM, it looks like Google’s just snapped up 1,000 patents belonging to you, which almost sounds dramatic, except for the part where IBM let them.
Make that 1,023 patents in all, which Bloomberg reports were acquired from IBM on August 17. The move is thought to be part of Google’s recent strategy to stockpile patents …
