Mad at Netflix over the recently-announced price hike? You’re not alone. To recap, here’s what’s happening:
On September 1, Netflix will do away with its combination DVD-by-mail and instant streaming offering, currently available for as low as $10 per month which includes one DVD out at a time and unlimited streaming.
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Netflix hopes you weren’t using both its DVD-by-mail and instant streaming options for the low, low price of just $10 per month.
Come September, you’ll have to opt for an $8 streaming plan or an $8 DVD plan—if you want both, you’ll have to pay for both. If my math is to be trusted, that’s $16 per month. For members new to Netflix, …
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.
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the venerable BlackBerry devices, will always be remembered as the company who liberated corporate email from …
Did you ever think you’d see the day? Spotify is coming to the U.S. I should have quotes around that last sentence, because those are Spotify’s exact words per its U.S. launch page.
Spotify distances itself from competing streaming music services by offering a free plan that allows users to stream any of its millions of music …
Is Hulu for sale? Not exactly.
The L.A. Times reports that Google and Microsoft have both been entertaining the idea of purchasing the online video service, which is jointly owned by NBC Universal, Fox, and Disney-owned ABC.
However, L.A. Times says, “The presentations to the potential suitors are a first step as Hulu’s owners …
San Francisco-based Zynga, makers of that game on Facebook you don’t play but you always see the weirdos you’re barely even friends with talking about how they found a wicker basket full of baby ducks, has just filed for an IPO. The company is hoping to raise $1 billion.
That’d be a mighty big haul, but with all the “crazy” IPO …
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.
The desire to compete with Apple is widespread among many companies in the tech sector. The problem is that very few, if any at all, are well …
California will become the latest state to collect sales tax for online purchases made from out-of-state retailers. The law goes into effect tomorrow and coincides with a 1% reduction in the state’s basic sales tax rate as a result of the end-date of a two-year-old temporary tax increase.
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Myspace has been purchased by an advertising outfit called Specific Media to the tune of $35 million, reports All Things D.
The once-ubiquitous social networking site was acquired by News Corp. back in 2005 for $580 million, with All Things D adding that the $35 million sale price “is well below the $100 million that News Corp. had …
Now I finally understand why Mark Zuckerberg bought a $7 million home – because he’s richer than God, that’s why. Well, actually, he’s just richer than those Google dudes and, um, me.
Turns out, thanks to some investors, Facebook’s valuation is up to $70 billion, making Zuckerberg approximately worth $18 billion. Which means …
Today Microsoft announced its foray into the cloud with Office 365, a line of collaborative Microsoft Office-like tools that users can access on the web.
The service aims to minimize the number of users jumping ship over to Google’s free cloud services (i.e. Google Docs) while enticing business owners with the ability to streamline …
During a recent shareholder meeting, Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer made it very clear that he believes the world is at the cusp of a new age of cyber terrorism. Yet despite calls for him to step down from his post, during which Sony’s losses may have totaled over $24 billion from cyber attacks, he skirted around the issue, saying that …
