Is There Really A Market For Cross-Platform Recommendation Engines?
Do you need someone to tell you what films to watch? Is it hard to discover content? There’s a whole sector of services evolving to target those who reply ‘yes’ to such questions. And when I say...
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NETFLIX SHARES COLLAPSE AFTER SUBSCRIBER FIGURES COME IN LIGHT (NFLX)
UPDATE: Netflix shares collapsed in after-hours trade, even as it reported better than expected earnings. Click here for updates > The company beat on the bottom line, reporting earnings per share...
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NETFLIX IS GETTING CLOBBERED, DOWN 20% (NFLX)
Rough morning for Netflix. The stock is down 20% in pre-market trading after last night's earnings report. Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
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16 Sweet Free Trials You Should Sign Up For
Companies give away free subscriptions on the assumption that customers will decide to keep paying or forget to cancel. We can speak from personal experience that it's easy to forget to cancel until...
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Netflix CEO, And Facebook Board Member, Reed Hastings Bought 50,000 Shares Of...
Netflix CEO, and Facebook board member, Reed Hastings bought 47,846 shares of Facebook last Friday at an average price of $21.03. That's a $1 million investment for Hastings, which is really not a lot...
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Kristen Stewart May Be Dropped From 'Snow White' Sequel—Here's Today's Buzz
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Kristen Stewart has been dropped from the sequel of "Snow White and the Hunstman," after having an affair with the film's director. But Universal insists that...
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SETH GODIN: If You're Going To Be Average, You Might As Well Quit
You've probably heard your entire life to not quit, keep pushing through and you'll eventually accomplish your "A" game. But what if you don't ever get there? You have tenacity, so you should keep on...
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Netflix Historian Claims Reed Hastings Has An 'Emotional IQ Of Zero' (NFLX)
A year after it raised prices and unveiled a plan to separate its DVD and online streaming businesses, Netflix is worth a fifth of what it was at its peak. How did things go so badly wrong? Well,...
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Netflix's Forgotten Cofounder Says Reed Hastings Is Lying About How He Came...
Reed Hastings says he came up with the idea for Netflix when he was hit with a $40 late fee on the movie Apollo 13. He was embarrassed about the fee, and though there had to be a better way to do...
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Amazon Tried To Buy Netflix For $12 Million In 1999* (NFLX)
In her book "Netflixed," Gina Keating writes that Amazon offered to buy Netflix in 1999 for $12 million. CNET first wrote about Keating's anecdote. In 1999, Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos and Netflix's CEO...
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Morgan Stanley Upgrades Netflix, Says Amazon Isn't A Direct Threat (NFLX, AMZN)
Netflix stock boasts one of the ugliest charts you'll ever see. However, at least one analyst thinks it's finally time to buy. Morgan Stanley's Scott Devitt raised Netflix to "overweight" this morning...
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Is Quitting Microsoft's Board (NFLX, MSFT)
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is planning to leave Microsoft's board, the software maker announced. He joined Microsoft's board in 2007 and he's currently the lead independent director. He won't stand for...
View ArticleWhy Blockbuster's Streaming Collapse Won't Hurt Netflix
After backing out of plans to compete with Netflix, Blockbuster is all but done. That's not great news for the streaming-video space, and Netflix is in a rough spot. But Blockbuster's latest stumble...
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Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings Is Staying On Facebook's Board (FB, NFLX)
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced plans to leave Microsoft's board of directors yesterday, citing the need to cut back on his outside board seats. The move makes sense, because Hastings is in the...
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Netflix Tanks After Domestic Streaming Subscriber Adds Miss Estimates (NFLX)
Netflix beat on EPS $0.13 (est. $0.04), revenues barely so at $905 million (est. $904.89 million). But domestic subscription adds missed estimates, according to the company's earnings release. They...
View ArticleNetflix Must Ponder Its Endgame Strategy
Was it really only 15 months ago when everyone loved Netflix? The stock had risen nearly eightfold during a two-year rally, CEO Reed Hastings was hailed as a game changer and was asked for the secrets...
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Netflix Explodes After Carl Icahn Takes A 10% Stake (NFLX)
Netflix shares exploded 20% after a filing revealed Carl Icahn took a 10% stake in the company. The shares were temporarily halted. Then they started trading, exploded, and were halted again. Icahn...
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Netflix 'Shareholder Rights' Plan Designed to Stave Off Carl Icahn Takeover
Netflix has adopted a "shareholder rights" plan designed to defend the company against takeover attempts by the likes of Carl Icahn, who last week acquired a ten-percent stake in the company after...
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BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Is Wearable Technology The Future Of Mobile?
Mobile Insights is a new daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Are...
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Amazon Just Took A Big Swipe At Hulu And Netflix (AMZN, NFLX)
Amazon quietly switched its Prime service today, letting subscribers choose between paying $7.99 per month or $79 per year. Before, you only had the $79 per year option.We first saw this new change via...
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