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Netflix pays $9M to settle user-data misuse charges; aims to misuse more data with Facebook

Posted February 12, 2012 - 11:24 am

Netflix has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a suit over its illegally long retention of customer rental records. It is now redoubling efforts to get law changed that keeps it from posting to Facebook lists of the things its customers are renting right now.
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Can Netflix survive as an independent, or will Verizon sink it like Napster?

Posted February 6, 2012 - 1:23 pm

Netflix faces tough competition for its cloud-based TV- and movie-content-streaming service: carriers who not only have deeper pockets to pay for content, but own the wires and customer Internet accounts, too. Can Netflix survive? Or is it this decade's Napster?
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Cisco: Playing fair with streamed 'net content will crush EU hopes for decent broadband

Posted February 2, 2012 - 1:55 pm

A Cisco executive speaking at the company's European user conference this week, criticized net neutrality provisions in the EU's new privacy regulations. Big companies won't be able to afford the investment in good broadband if they're forced to give customers what they paid for. Duh.
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Wall Street buying into Netflix comeback narrative big-time

Posted January 26, 2012 - 1:24 pm

Shares of Netflix soared nearly 26% Thursday after the streaming video company's fourth-quarter report showed a return to subscriber growth in the U.S.
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Netflix shares soar as Q4 results top estimates

Posted January 25, 2012 - 6:11 pm

Shares of Netflix soared nearly 17% in extended trading Wednesday as a subscriber exodus triggered by last summer's price hike appears to be ebbing.
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Netflix 2011 coda: Blunders cost CEO $1.5M

Posted December 23, 2011 - 11:21 am

They didn't cost him his job (yet), but Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' strategic missteps this year will cost him in the wallet next year.
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My personal, hand-selected top 11 tech stories of 2011

Posted December 22, 2011 - 2:17 pm

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings thought he was merely announcing a much-needed price increase to loyal subscribers. Instead he opened the gates to Internet hell.
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Netflix shares jump on Verizon acquisition rumor

Posted December 12, 2011 - 7:25 pm

Buying stock based on rumors is a risky business, but that didn't stop some investors from climbing on the Netflix bandwagon on Monday.
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Netflix's nightmare continues

Posted November 22, 2011 - 6:32 pm

Shares of Netflix fell more than 7% on Tuesday after the streaming video company said it will raise $400 million in a stock and bond offering and warned it expects to post a loss in 2012.
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Netflix gobbles up one-third of peak bandwith traffic in US

Posted October 27, 2011 - 11:30 am

Angry customers may be leaving Netflix, but those who stick around are using the service to stream movies more than ever.
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Netflix down 800k subscribers, racing to red ink

Posted October 25, 2011 - 10:51 am

Bad quarter for Netflix: negative press, price hike, fights with content providers, and, oh yes, Qwikster, and the split that wasn't. Anyone surprised 800,000 subscribers bailed last quarter?
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Netflix is streaming to Europe

Posted October 24, 2011 - 10:39 am

The streaming video player adds the United Kingdom and Ireland to its list of international markets.
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Netflix Qwikster says Hello, Goodbye

Posted October 10, 2011 - 10:55 am

Netflix fans and stockholders are all asking the same question: does retracting a really stupid mistake quickly make you seem more or less incompetent? But Qwikster or not, the Netflix price jump stays.
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Qwikster, we hardly knew ye

Posted October 10, 2011 - 9:37 am

Netflix's decision to abandon plan for a separate DVD-by-mail site comes in response to almost universally negative reaction by customers.
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Netflix does Qwik turn, will keep DVD and streaming together

Posted October 10, 2011 - 9:12 am

There was no apology for the apology. But three weeks after it announced Qwikster, the spinoff that incorporated the company’s DVD rental service, Netflix on Monday morning reversed course, declaring that it would keep its DVD and streaming video services under one roof.
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Four Netflix alternatives tested

Posted October 8, 2011 - 7:59 am

A couple of recent customer-service snafus by Netflix pushed many users to look for an alternative way to enjoy video services. First Netflix hiked its prices by 60 percent, and later it split its services into two different companies.
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Amazon inks deal with Fox for 2,000+ streaming movies

Posted September 26, 2011 - 4:36 pm

Amazon announced Monday that it would add more than 2,000 TV shows and movies to its streaming video services this fall in a new partnership with Fox. The new content, which includes classic movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and TV shows like the X-Files and the cult hit Arrested Development, will bring the total number of instant streaming titles on Amazon to more than 11,000.
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Netflix's new streaming deal with Discovery will make us forget the dumb stuff Netflix has done lately...oh wait, it won't

Posted September 21, 2011 - 10:20 am

Netflix becomes the first online streaming company to offer full episodes of shows from the Discovery network of channels.
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Netflix deals with cloud security concerns

Posted September 21, 2011 - 9:37 am

As Netflix commits its future to streaming movies to customers, it relies almost exclusively on cloud services for its infrastructure, raising security concerns that require a new way of thinking, the company's cloud security architect says.
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CEO apology, Qwikster won't help Netflix

Posted September 19, 2011 - 10:52 am

Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings apologizes for poorly communicating the DVD service's recent price hike.
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Netflix announces mail DVD-only Qwikster

Posted September 19, 2011 - 10:38 am

First, Netflix announced they are charging separately for their video streaming and DVDs by mail services. Now they announced Qwikster, the new name for the DVD by mail service. Shouldn't they have announced Qwikster first, then introduced the price change?
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Can Netflix recover from self-inflicted wound?

Posted September 15, 2011 - 4:36 pm

Netflix clings to the belief that its price hike and services split will pay off in the long run.
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Netflix now on most Android phones and some tablets

Posted September 12, 2011 - 10:30 am

In an oddly low-key way, Netflix released their streaming app on Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices last Friday. The "announcement" was hidden inside the "What's New" tab at the Android Market.
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Will Netflix backtrack on its rate hike (and would it matter)?

Posted July 26, 2011 - 9:38 am

Netflix's rate increase has infuriated customers and hurt its stock. Should it backtrack and admit it made a mistake?
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Breakfast links: Mozilla stumbles after Chrome

Posted July 26, 2011 - 8:10 am

Plus: Netflix finds that angering customers isn't profitable.
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