Netflix has become the the largest online movie service in the US, taking Apple out of the top spot. According to data collected by IHS iSuppli, Netflix's share of the online movie market surged to 44 percent in 2011 from 0.5 percent in 2010. Meanwhile, Apple's market share through its iTunes service fell nearly by half to 32.3 percent in 2011 from 60.8 percent in 2010.
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Netflix beats Apple in online movie revenue
Netflix iPhone app update offers WiFi-only option
There's no question that Netflix can be a bit of a data hog. That's not something you really worry about when you about at home because chances are you don't have a data limit or the limit is so huge you're never concerned with eclipsing it. But it becomes a very real issue if you like to take your Netflix on-the-go. To prevent users from sucking up mobile data, Netflix is now letting users stream exclusively via WiFi.
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Netflix promises to delete rental history after a year
Netflix cares about your privacy and has agreed that if you unsubscribe from the site, any rental activity on your account that is more than a year old will no longer be tied to you, meaning no one - not even Netflix - will be able to look back at your past movie choices, and after you've been gone from Netflix for a year there will be no way to pull any rental data. Okay, the latter part of that is true, but Netflix doesn't care about your privacy.
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Xbox 360 adds Amazon Instant Video
After first launching on the PS3, Amazon's Netflix clone is making its way to the Xbox 360. The Amazon Instant Video app launched today over Xbox Live, allowing customers to have instant access to the library of movies and TV shows they've already purchased from Amazon, as well as the full span of streaming videos available to Amazon Prime members.
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Netflix says it single-handedly increased Mad Men audience by one million
The most recent season premiere for the AMC series Mad Men brought in a whopping 3.5 million viewers. That's not too shabby for a basic cable show, especially when you compare it to last year's season opener. That episode pulled in around 2.3 million viewers. So what's the reason behind that explosive growth? If you believe Ted Sarandos, then it's almost exclusively thanks to Netflix.
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Verizon Viewdini aggregates Netflix, Hulu, Comcast into one app
Verizon is launching a way for it to both boast about the capabilities of its high-speed 4G LTE network and to make one of the most popular Web activities go through its unified service. The service in question is called Viewdini, and it will allow users to stream Hulu Plus, Netflix, Comcast Xfinity, and mSpot content all within the confines of one platform. CEO Dan Mead made the announcement at an event this week.
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Why Apple Will Eventually Kill Netflix
I remember a time when Netflix was special. The company was delivering innovative ideas to the marketplace, it fully understood its customers, and its management was in tune with the changing market dynamics. Netflix was, just last year, in fact, a tech giant.
But after increasing how much it charges customers for access to its rentals and its streaming, and watching its content partners turn their backs on it unless it paid up, everything has changed. Now, Netflix is a shadow of its former self, and a company that, as far as I’m concerned, could very well be on its way to outright obsolescence.
Banned “Tax the Rich” TED Talk slides and text here
For those of you wondering if there’s ever a TED Talk that presents an idea too controversial for the group to publish it, there definitely is, and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer was the one to make it. What we’ve got here is the full text of the TED Talks presentation Hanauer made at the March TED University conference as well as the full set of slides he presented at the conference. We do not have the video for this TED Talk because TED officials have decided not to publish it, not streaming, not for download, and certainly not for consumption on Netflix or your iPad app.
Netflix says one third of new customers are old customers
Netflix has had a rough road over the last year or so when it split streaming and DVD rental into two services and raised prices. That move led to a large defection of customers who canceled their service out of anger. It appears that many of those customers are now returning to the streaming service according to a Netflix executive.
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Netflix Web-based video player gets massive redesign
If you're like me, you remember the day that Netflix's streaming video service first launched. And at that time, you would shut off the TV and spend hours watching movies and TV shows on your computer. Now, though, there are millions of people who no doubt have a Netflix streaming subscription and have never even watched any content from the confines of their computer.
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Netflix customer satisfaction on the rise
After Netflix completely shot itself in the foot and announced to the entire world, "We take all of our paying subscribers for granted," the company seems to have played its game of damage control fairly well, as the level of satisfaction that customers have for the streaming service has now gone up from where it was at the end of last year. This is according to the results from analytics group Forsee's annual Top 100 E-Trail Satisfaction Index.
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Dish Network: AMC devalued itself by going to Netflix
If you're a Dish Network subscriber, you may be all too familiar with the repeated threats that the cable channel AMC might be dropped from its lineup. Of course, pay TV operators and content providers go through this song and dance every time a new contract is up for renewal. But this may be the first time we've heard such a blunt argument as for why the cable operator isn't willing to pay a lot of money for a network - because Netflix is making the network worth less.
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