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Sony and Disney films being pulled from Netflix in 2012

Sep 2, 2011
Starz Entertainment is the pay-TV/online distributor for many Sony and Disney films. Sony has a contract clause with Starz that lets it ask for...

Amazon's cloud goes down

Aug 9, 2011
Amazon Web Service's cloud infrastructure went all blinky last night for about 25 minutes, knocking such things as Netflix, Foursquare, and Reddit...

Wal-Mart joins the streaming movie party

Jul 27, 2011
Tuesday, Wal-Mart announced it would start streaming movies, thanks to the streaming service Vudu, which the big box retailer acquired last year....

Amazon seeks to be a player in streaming entertainment

Jul 21, 2011
Customers who are members of Amazon Prime, the premium Amazon.com service that also sounds like a new sort of Transformer, are going to be able to...

Netflix down

Jul 18, 2011
I'm not just talking about this story, man, I was living it! My kids wanted to know why WHY they couldn't watch Phineas & Ferb on Netflix and I...

Netflix is coming to the 3DS

Jul 14, 2011
So you'll be able to watch streaming content on your little hand held game player. Important to note: not 3D movies. Just regular movies and TV in...

Major Netflix expansion

Jul 5, 2011
The company has announced that its streaming service will move into Mexico plus 42 countries in Central and South America later this year. Prior to...

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Hastings joins Facebook board

Jun 24, 2011
We don't tend to chase a whole lot of stories about bigshot executives in this particular memo or program but this one might be kind of significant...

Here's a new term for you: cable shaving

Jun 15, 2011
No, it's not trimming your facial hair with a bit of coaxial cable, it's cutting back on the level of cable you have. As Netflix streaming becomes...

Xbox schedules event at the same time and people show up

Jun 7, 2011
Yeah, it was a real fun day to be following live blogs. Larissa and I were yelling back and forth. Must have really thrilled the Krista Tippett...