Netflix

Life Cycle: The Birth and Death of Your Bootleg DVDs

Simran Sethi | Posted 09.23.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

Your cinematic experience leaves its mark not only on your heart, but on the planet.

Netflix Shipping Delays Caused By Faulty Technology

Epicenter | Dave Burdick | Posted 08.14.2008 | Business


Not a great week for major digital services. Gmail went down -- briefly -- earlier this week and caused a commotion among some of the more frequent em...

Product Service Systems: One You Already Know and One You Need to Know About

Collin Dunn | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green


Collin Dunn

I'm a huge fan of the "Product Service System," better known to some as PSS. Though the name is easy to trip over, the concept is brilliant: rather th...

Downloading A Movie Seems More Eco-Friendly...

Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green


Americans think downloading movies is "far more convenient and eco-friendly than taking a drive out to the local video store," according to survey con...

Italy As Seen On Netflix: Horror, De Sica and Soft Porn

Marta Mondelli | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment


Marta Mondelli

When you live away from your country, you start looking at it with different eyes. I lived my whole life in Italy and since moving to New York six years ago, I've learned new things about the place I thought I knew.

Xbox 360, Netflix Streaming Movies Deal

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business


LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal annou...

Netflix Death Watch (Part 2)

Ron Galloway | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business


Ron Galloway

There is just nothing special about the Netflix set-top box. Netflix basically owns the DVD rental by mail business, but in the realm of digital delivery it is just one player amongst others.

Outsourcing: You Get What You Pay For

Tom Alderman | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business


Tom Alderman

When a business transfers important control to someone else's hands on the other side of the planet, bad things happen, they say -- like compliance and fraud issues.

Friendship: The Graduation Gift That Keeps On Giving

Irene S. Levine | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living


Irene S. Levine

Graduation often means going home or moving away, leaving the familiar and making new starts. But make yourself a promise to keep up with your school chums - they're the best graduation gift you can get.

TV Upfronts, CNET, and the Facebook, MySpace and Google Data Wars

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media


Jerry Weinstein

The US Attorney's Office is using a Terms of Service violation as a way to prosecute. Think of that precedent. How many of us read ToS agreements anyway?

Is Best Buy Buying Netflix?

Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.17.2008 | Business


A reader says there was chatter to that effect this afternoon, as Netflix (NFLX) pushed 6% higher on high volume. Would this make sense? Only if Best...

Netflix: Don't Call Us Obsolete

Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business


Netflix announces its first-quarter earnings after the bell Monday, April, 21. With a spate of upgrades by analysts during Q1, Netflix is expected to ...

Netflix: Don't Call Us Obsolete

Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business


Netflix announces its first-quarter earnings after the bell Monday, April, 21. With a spate of upgrades by analysts during Q1, Netflix is expected to ...

Blockbuster's Questionable Bid for Circuit City

Scott Anthony | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business


Scott Anthony

Combining Blockbuster and Circuit City seems like a pretty bad idea. Each company has distinct strategic issues to address. A merger could very well distract them from the task at hand at the exact worst time.

The Joy of Sorry

Sharon Glassman | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living


Sharon Glassman

Signposts pointing to a more truthful way of life pop up in the Rockies where I least expect them. For instance: in an email from Netflix last week. "We're sorry," the subject line said.

Breakdown Knocks Out Netflix Site

AP | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business


LOS GATOS, Calif. — Online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. is suffering a technology breakdown that's knocked out its Web site, inconveniencing i...

Netflix Death Watch

Ron Galloway | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business


Ron Galloway

Customer service can be a leading indicator, despite what a company's stock says. Remember when Dell's customer service reps started getting uppity? That's about the time the stock topped.

Netflix To Offer Unlimited Instant Viewing

AP | Michael Liedtke | Posted 01.13.2008 | Business


Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch mo...

Netflix To Bring Movies Straight To Customers' TVs

New York Times | Brad Stone | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business


Netflix, the DVD-by-mail company with more than seven million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes obsolete. The c...

Edwards Barnstorms Through 24 Straight Hours Of Campaigning

Reuters | Matthew Bigg | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics


Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards barnstormed through 24 straight hours of campaigning on Wednesday to dramatize the urgency of his fight...

Will Apple Kill Netflix?

Motley Fool | Rick Aristotle Munarriz | Posted 12.27.2007 | Business


Apple has taken on computing giants, music industry behemoths, and even Hollywood fat cats with ease in recent years. There's no reason to break a swe...

Analysts: Postal Rate Change Will Wallop Netflix, Help Blockbuster

Silicon Valley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 12.05.2007 | Business


Another reason for Netflix (NFLX) to hurry up and transition to a purely digital model: A potential postal rate change could cut the company's operati...

Turn on, Tune In, Drop Out: How The TiVo Phenomenon Rots Identity

Molly Shaw | Posted 12.04.2007 | Entertainment


Molly Shaw

When did I stop thinking for myself? The day I gave in to the temptations of collaborative filtering systems.

Netflix Looking At A Future WIthout The Mailbox

Washington Post | Mike Musgrove | Posted 10.27.2007 | Business

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"It's like a three-act play, and we're in the opening minutes of the second act," says Steve Swasey, vice president of corporate communications at mov...

Time Inc To Introduce Netflix For Magazines

Advertising Age | Nat Ives | Posted 10.26.2007 | Media


After years of development, Time Inc. plans to introduce an online service next year that will offer pay-as-you-go, mix-and-match, highly flexible mag...