How Tablets And Smartphones Are Conquering Our Living Rooms
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 ArticleKevin Spacey Smartly Defends 'House Of Cards' on 'Colbert' Before Stealing...
Stephen Colbert called out Kevin Spacey on Wednesday for receiving nine Emmy nominations despite "House of Cards" not being a real "TV show.""I've got a beef about this," Colbert said. "It's an...
View ArticleEveryone In The Tech And TV Industries Is Passing Around This Speech By Kevin...
Everyone in the tech industry is passing around this video of Kevin Spacey talking about how Netflix (and other tech companies) will blow up the traditional TV industry. In an edited version of...
View ArticleTarget Will Soon Launch A Competitor To Netflix And iTunes (TGT)
Retail giant Target is gearing up to launch a new video streaming service called Target Ticket.News of Target Ticket first broke in May, when a website advertising the service went live.Target Ticket...
View ArticleRicky Gervais Reveals Far Too Much In Funny Reddit AMA
Between the nine Emmy nods for its first original series "House of Cards" and the "Orange Is the New Black" buzz, Netflix is killing it right now.The online streaming service has entrusted Ricky...
View ArticleIf You Binge-Watch Shows On Netflix, Then You Have To Check Out This Page
Binge-watching shows on Netflix is the best way to consume TV.But there's certainly something a bit scary about getting to the end of a TV series, and not being sure of what you're going to watch and...
View ArticleBloomberg Businessweek Premiers Its Made-For-Netflix Hank Paulson Documentary...
On Thursday Bloomberg Businessweek will premier a documentary on former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson called “Hank: Five Years From the Brink,” says the New York Times. The anguish and stress of...
View ArticleNETFLIX HITS A NEW ALL-TIME HIGH (NFLX)
Remember when Netflix was left for dead? Yeah, not so much any more... It's at a new all-time high (on intraday trading).Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleHoly, Netflix!
Netflix's stock just hit an all-time high of $313 a share.This wouldn't be so remarkable except for what happened two years ago.Two years ago, after an astounding multi-year run on the strength of a...
View Article10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL)
You may or may not have heard, but Apple made some announcements yesterday. Here's what you need to know:Apple has introduced two new iPhones, the iPhone 5c and the iPhone 5s. They'll both run on a new...
View ArticleThe 'Net Neutrality' Debate Could Have A Huge Impact On Netflix
Debate is back on in Washington on US regulations on "net neutrality" which bar Internet broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against services or content.A court case for which arguments...
View ArticleNetflix Has A Surprising Relationship With Piracy Sites
It's easy to imagine that Netflix despises pirating websites that allow people to download movies and TV shows for free. After all, it only takes some Internet digging and a lax moral code to find the...
View ArticleNetflix And Hulu Plus Subscribers Shift Their Video-Viewing To Mobile Devices
Greater percentages of Netflix and Hulu Plus subscribers are streaming content using mobile devices.The trend is strongest among Netflix subscribers. In 2012, only 5% of Netflix subscribers said they...
View ArticleHow Netflix Almost Seized The Saul Goodman 'Breaking Bad' Spinoff From AMC
Recently fans of AMC's Breaking Bad received news from Hollywood that slightly softened the blow of there being only two episodes remaining in the series.The show will live on through a spin-off series...
View ArticleCHART: Netflix Sees Rates Of Tablet Video Streaming Triple In A Year, And...
Video streaming is going mobile. The trend is strongest among Netflix subscribers. In 2012, only 5% of Netflix subscribers said they streamed content on an iPad, according to Nielsen. A year later,...
View ArticleThere Are More People Shorting Market Darlings Like Tesla Than You Think
Back in May, we highlighted the persistence of high short-interest in some of the big year-to-date-winners. Dan posted commentary with the title, “Concentrated Longs with High Short Interest are a...
View ArticleNetflix Is Up 5.5% On A Report That It Could Be An App For A Cable Box (NFLX)
Netflix has done one thing better than just about every other online video streaming service — It has successfully secured distribution across almost every access point for web video out there. Netflix...
View ArticleDon't Insult Walmart On Twitter — Its New Corporate Policy Is To Politely...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Walmartis taking efforts to more actively respond to criticisms lobbed at its social media accounts. It's new internal credo is, "no free...
View ArticleNetflix Has A Huge Q3 — Stock Blasts Upward 10% On Huge Increase In Members...
Netflix stock went up briefly as much as 10% in after-hours trading today, to $388, after its Q3 earnings report.Here are the full set of numbers. Highlights from the Q&A are below.Here are the...
View ArticleAnalyst Who Expects Netflix To Fall 59% Explains What It Would Have To Do To...
Yesterday, Netflix reported strong earnings results, beating the consensus estimate by 14%. Revenues, net income, and total domestic subscriptions surprised to the upside as well.Shares are up nearly...
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