How To Fire People As Explained By The Woman Behind 'The Most Important...
Netflix Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord, author of Netflix's famous management and culture presentation, argued in a First Round Capital CEO Summit talk that many managers are too lenient and willing...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article'Breaking Bad' And 'Mad Men' Are Way More Popular On Netflix Than Its New...
More Netflix subscribers watched episodes of "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men" than its original TV show "House of Cards,"the Wall Street Journal reports."House of Cards" accounted for less than 1% of the...
View ArticleNetflix Gets Its First Emmy Nominations (NFLX)
Nominations for this years Emmys are happening right now. Most notably, Jason Bateman, the star of the fourth season of "Arrested Development," was nominated for the lead actor in a comedy category. It...
View ArticleReed Hastings Has An Absolutely Perfect Celebration Of Netflix's Emmy...
In 2010, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes was asked about Netflix, an upstart that was starting to form into a rival to HBO. Bewkes response was one for the ages: "It’s a little bit like, is the Albanian...
View ArticleKevin Spacey Says 'House of Cards' Proves TV Is Smarter Than Music Industry
The nine Emmy nominations for Netflix's "House of Cards," including a key nod in the Outstanding Drama Series category, shows that the Television Academy is willing to recognize "a new way of viewing,"...
View ArticleWhitney Tilson's Monster Presentation On AIG, Netflix And Two Brand New Stock...
Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, who now runs Kase Capital, gave two new stock picks at the Value Investing Congress in Las Vegas this week. Tilson, the co-founder of the Value Investing Congress,...
View Article'Breaking Bad' And 'Mad Men' Are Way More Popular On Netflix Than Its New...
More Netflix subscribers watched episodes of "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men" than its original TV show "House of Cards,"the Wall Street Journal reports."House of Cards" accounted for less than 1% of the...
View ArticleNetflix Q2 Earnings Are In Line With Estimates But The Stock Drops...
Netflix Q2 2013 earnings are out and they are in line with Wall Street.Revenue is the same as expectations and EPS is above estimates. The stock dropped about 7% in after-hours trading.The big numbers...
View ArticleWhat Wall Street's Short-Sellers Are Thinking About After Netflix's Earnings...
Netflix beat Q2 earnings estimates this evening and followed their numbers up with a webcast moderated by CNBC's Julia Boorstin and hosted by a smiling Reed Hastings looking confident and speaking...
View ArticleIf Netflix Can Continue To Make Awesome Original Series It Should Be Able To...
Yesterday Netflix's earnings report was directly in line with what analyst projected, but the internet streaming service's stock price still dropped about 7% in after-hours trading.Analysts and...
View ArticleNetflix Is Showing You The Wrong Version Of Some Movies
Is Netflix ruining movies? The service that once performed the magical task of mailing DVDs directly to your house has expanded to the even more magical task of streaming movies directly to your...
View ArticleNetflix's Newest Original Series — About Mermaids! — Is Beyond Weird (NFLX)
Fresh off of a lukewarm Q2 2013 earnings report, Netflix's official Twitter account just posted a trailer for its upcoming original series, "Mako Mermaids". The show is targeted at children, pre-teens,...
View ArticleGoogle Has Already Ended Its Great Netflix Deal For The Chrome Dongle (GOOG,...
Google has pulled the plug on a big promotion it was including with its Chromecast, the three-inch plastic dongle that plugs into a TV for video and music streaming. The Chromecast costs $35, and for...
View ArticleHow Going To A Women's College Helped A Yuppie 'Fit In' At A Federal Prison
Like a lot of people, I've been riveted by Netflix's new fish-out-of-water series, "Orange is the New Black," which centers around a yuppie who goes to a women's prison for a 10-year-old drug...
View ArticleManagement Guru Behind 'The Most Important Document Ever To Come Out Of The...
Beyond being one of Boston's most successful startups, HubSpot is known for its efforts at creating a modern workplace culture, to the point where it's the subject of an MIT student's PHD...
View ArticleNetflix Temporarily Yanks 'Star Trek' Movie For The Funniest Reason
Star Trek features fictional alien races known as Klingons and Vulcans. But, believe it or not, the languages they speak have become real languages. So real that there are institutes and dictionaries...
View ArticleIn The Future, Cable Companies Might Not Even Offer TV
In the years ahead, buying cable Internet as an add-on to your TV package might seem like a memory from a simpler time.That's because many Americans are opting to skip the television part altogether...
View ArticleThe Woman Who Inspired 'Orange Is The New Black' Reveals The Creepy Side Of...
Piper Kerman's memoir "Orange is the New Black" is way less violent than the addictive Netflix series it inspired, but one part of her year in a low-security federal prison sounds highly creepy.Several...
View ArticleWoman Behind 'Orange Is The New Black' Describes The Terrifying Experience Of...
The memoir "Orange is the New Black" is a lot less scary than the Netflix show it inspired, but one part of Piper Kerman's year in prison sounds terrifying and surreal — the time she had to fly on "Con...
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