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$200 Google Nexus tablet, unlikely iOS 6 rumors, and Netflix on your cable box

Posted March 7, 2012 - 11:51 am

The iPad 3, or maybe the iPad HD, will be announced today, and then we’ll all have to get back to whatever it is we did before we started debating the structural properties of LTE chips and tablet chassis. In the meantime, here’s a handful of things to speculate that do not involve Retina Displays or magical new features.
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Netflix pays $9M to settle user-data misuse charges; aims to misuse more data with Facebook

Posted February 12, 2012 - 12:24 pm

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 - 2:23 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 - 2:55 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 - 2:24 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 - 7:11 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 - 12:21 pm

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 - 3:17 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 - 8:25 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 - 7:32 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 is streaming to Europe

Posted October 24, 2011 - 11:39 am

The streaming video player adds the United Kingdom and Ireland to its list of international markets.
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Qwikster, we hardly knew ye

Posted October 10, 2011 - 10:37 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'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 - 11:20 am

Netflix becomes the first online streaming company to offer full episodes of shows from the Discovery network of channels.
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CEO apology, Qwikster won't help Netflix

Posted September 19, 2011 - 11:52 am

Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings apologizes for poorly communicating the DVD service's recent price hike.
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Can Netflix recover from self-inflicted wound?

Posted September 15, 2011 - 5:36 pm

Netflix clings to the belief that its price hike and services split will pay off in the long run.
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Will Netflix backtrack on its rate hike (and would it matter)?

Posted July 26, 2011 - 10:38 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 - 9:10 am

Plus: Netflix finds that angering customers isn't profitable.
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Hey, Netflix crybabies, get a grip

Posted July 13, 2011 - 12:41 pm

Price increase of $6 a month sends thousands of customers into fits of sputtering rage.
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Netflix new pricing structure no surprise

Posted July 12, 2011 - 4:41 pm

Netflix on Tuesday announced it would raise its rates and offer separate DVD and streaming pricing.
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Netflix isn't swamping the Internet; ISPs are overstating their congestion problems

Posted May 19, 2011 - 6:02 pm

Netflix streaming media makes up the most common form of Internet traffic, but it's not swamping ISP backbones, despite their complaints to the FCC, which lets them throttle with abandon.
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Netflix shares drop after Miramax Films streaming deal

Posted May 16, 2011 - 6:39 pm

Shares of Netflix fell nearly 4 percent Monday after the online streaming and DVD rental company announced a multi-year deal with Miramax Films.
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Why the media companies are learning to love Netflix

Posted May 9, 2011 - 4:58 pm

Remember just a few months ago when media companies were prepared to go to war with Netflix for ruining their business? Times have changed.
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Can Netflix kill illegal downloads?

Posted April 29, 2011 - 3:32 pm

Netflix is growing so fast it must be reducing the number of movies downloaded illegally, right? Makes sense, but the content shared illegally goes way beyond a few old movies.
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DirecTV contemplates Netflix-like streaming service

Posted April 27, 2011 - 12:14 pm

Satellite television company DirecTV on Tuesday revealed to subscribers that it plans to offer a "Netflix-like" streaming video service for a flat fee.
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Netflix shares drop despite impressive Q1 earnings

Posted April 25, 2011 - 5:52 pm

Shares of Netflix hit another all-time high Monday, only to drop more than 5 percent in extended trading after the company said it nearly doubled first-quarter profit.
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