Netflix
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Netflix, Inc., commonly just Netflix, (NASDAQ: NFLX) is an American corporation that offers both on-demand video streaming over the internet, and flat rate online video rental (rental-by-mail) of DVD-Video and Blu-ray Disc in the United States and Canada (streaming only).The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It started its subscription service in 1999. In 2009 it was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and surpassing 10 million subscribers. On February 25, 2007, Netflix announced the billionth DVD delivery.Netflix is a subscription-based movie and television show rental service that offers media to subscribers via Internet streaming and via US mail.Netflix offers Internet video streaming ("Watch Instantly") of selected titles to computers running Windows or Mac OS X and to compatible devices.
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The Morning Lowdown 5-17-12
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: paidContent 2012: Just a few days to go (.
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Can Web-Only Original Programming Finally Stick?
The days of skateboarding dogs holding sway on the web may be numbered. Technology companies and advertisers are professing their belief in the value of professionally produced original content.
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Netflix launches sexy new web-based video player
Netflix just rolled out a completely revamped video player for browser-based viewing, and I gotta say, it’s pretty slick: Not only does it come with lightbox-like text overlays while a video is paused, users can also preview entire seasons of a TV show while they’re watching one episode of the show in full-screen mode.
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Netflix CFO: Really, we didn’t kill Spongebob’s ratings!
That was a key takeway from Netflix chief financial officer David Wells Wednesday, as he addressed investors at the J. P. Morgan 40th Annual Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in Boston.
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Why Rush Limbaugh Hasn’t Been Hurt By the Boycott…Yet
News hounds perusing this year’s edition of the FORBES Celebrity 100 might be surprised to see Rush Limbaugh on there at No. 19 — four spots higher than he came in last year. This despite a boycott that drove advertisers from his radio show and reportedly cost Cumulus Media, one of radio station groups that airs it, millions in lost revenue.
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Betting big on live sports data, Perform lays €120 million on RunningBall
After online sports broadcast specialist Perform Group went public a year ago, it promised it would succeed its acquisition of Goal. com by buying more sports sites.
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Holy moly: Netflix clocks 42B API requests per month
Updated. Netflix clocked close to 42 billion API requests per day in January, according to the company’s director of engineering Daniel Jacobson, who revealed the number as part of a presentation he recently gave to the Paypal engineering team. In his slides, Jacobson pointed out that the number of API requests has grown 70-fold in just two years, from 600 million in January of 2010 to 41.
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NBC, CBS, ABC, Univision and the CW Retool for the Fall
A look at the needs of major television networks as the upfronts begin.
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The Media Equation: Audiences Now Rarely Drawn to Live Television
When it comes to the traditional screen that families gather around, live television is competing against a growing array of self-selected content, and audiences are bolting.
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The Apple TV rumors are hard to kill off
Now that the new iPad has been out for a few months (it's just launching this weekend in a number of other countries including Brazil) the rumor mill is hard at work as tech sites try to come up with something that will drive traffic. The usual suspects are the newest version of the iPhone, a smaller tablet and the Apple TV, or more precisely, the new Apple HDTV, to keep it separate from the existing Apple TV product.
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