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Online Video Piracy Is Fading Away, Thanks To Netflix (NFLX, AMZN)
Remember the threat of digital video piracy, the scourge of Hollywood?A new report suggests that it's dropping fast, thanks to licensed streaming services, chiefly Netflix.Netflix utterly dominates...
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NETFLIX: Amazon Is Losing Up To $1 Billion A Year Trying To Keep Up With Us...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says Amazon is losing between $500 million and $1 billion a year on its Prime streaming video service.He came up with that range based on deals that Netflix and Amazon...
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Carl Icahn Is Going To War
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Netflix Inc., the world’s largest video-streaming service, said it expects activist investor Carl Icahn to start a proxy battle after acquiring an almost 10 percent stake in the...
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Video Streaming Has Plenty Of Headroom In Tablet Market
Netflix's video streaming service already counts 36% of U.S. tablet owners as subscribers, according to a recent Morgan Stanleystudy. The bank's AlphaWise survey of over 1,100 tablet owners also found...
View ArticleHere's What A Huge TV Mogul Thinks About Netflix
Jeff Bewkes built HBO into a tremendously valuable TV content creator, before he became of the most important person in cable as the head of Time Warner.At our media conference IGNITION this week,...
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Mobile Devices Wage Battle For The Multi-screen Living Room
For over a decade, big tech companies, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, have been promising to take over the living room.But home entertainment has proved a hard business to crack, and consumers...
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Netflix Stock Soars After It Announces A Big Deal With Disney (NFLX, DIS)
Netflix's stock jumped almost 10% after it announced a new deal with Disney.Starting in 2016, Netflix will be streaming Disney movies in the "pay TV window." That is industry-speak for the time after a...
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BII REPORT: How Mobile Is Waging Battle For The Multi-Screen Living Room
For over a decade, big tech companies, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, have been promising to take over the living room.But home entertainment has proved a hard business to crack, and consumers...
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Netflix CEO Gets A Warning From The SEC Over A Facebook Post (NFLX)
Netflix CEO Reed Hastingsgot a Wells notice from the SEC.A Wells notice comes when the SEC is giving a company a heads-up that it's likely to bring some sort of action against it.In this case, the...
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The SEC's Attack On Netflix Is Ridiculous (NFLX)
Netflix got a Wells notice from the SEC for a Facebook posting CEO Reed Hastings made.This is ridiculous.A Wells notice is a warning that the SEC is likely to bring charges against an individual or...
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Redbox, The Company With Those DVD Rental Kiosks, Will Soon Have A Streaming...
Redbox, the giant red movie rental kiosks you see all over the place, is starting its own streaming video service comparable to Netflix, reports the AP.Launching later this month, the service will...
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BII REPORT: Mobile Opportunities In The Multi-Screen Living Room
Home entertainment has proved a hard business to crack, and consumers remain tied to their TVs and panoply of set-top devices.What will happen in the mobile era? What happens when screens collide, and...
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Amazon Gives Netflix A Nasty Holiday Gift
Netflix went down last night and Amazon's cloud was to blame, according to a lot of tweets sent out by @Netflixhelps.Netflix said users across the U.S. were affected."There is a partial outage that...
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' Salary Will Double In 2013 (NFLX)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' pay will double to $4 million next year, after he took a pay cut due to management missteps this year.Hastings' annual salary will rise to $2 million in...
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Amazon Explains Why It Took Netflix Offline On Christmas Eve (AMZN, NFLX)
Amazon issued a long technical explanation and apology for the outage that took Netflix down on Christmas Eve, without ever mentioning the rival online-video service by name.The outage lasted all night...
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BII REPORT: How Mobile Is Waging Battle For The Multi-Screen Living Room
For over a decade, big tech companies, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, have been promising to take over the living room.But home entertainment has proved a hard business to crack, and consumers...
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Ever Wonder If A Movie Is Streaming On Netflix? This Site Will Tell You...
It's a common problem – you want to watch a specific movie but you're not sure if your streaming service of choice has it available.But we just found out about a service called Can I Stream.it? via...
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The 11 Best Alternatives To Paying For Cable
Now that most American workers will see 2 percent more of their take-home income disappear this year, it's as good a time as any to find ways to trim household costs.By far, the simplest place to start...
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What 'Arrested Development' Will Be Like When It Hits Netflix In May
Update: Wednesday afternoon's TCA panel revealed plenty of new info about Arrested Development's return on Netflix this May.You won't call it season four, if Jason Bateman has anything to say about...
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How Intel Plans To Kill The Cable Industry With Its New 'IPTV'
"Hashtag" may have just been crowned 2012's word of the year, but it seems 2013 could be the year of "cord cutting." Cord cutting is a growing trend threatening the cable industry's standard bundle...
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