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Netflix Inc is an Internet company that distributes video on-demand. As of 2012, the company operated in the USA, but also in South America, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Netflix was founded in 1997 in California and is still based in Los Gatos in the Silicon Valley. Of course, Netflix is also provides DVD rentals via regular mail, and that is actually how the company took off before becoming the entity that is said to account for 29% of USA download Internet traffic as of March 2011. Netflix is one of the largest customer of Amazon’s AWS infrastructure business.
Netflix Updates PlayStation 3 Player With Improvements To Audio, Trickplay Mode
05/13/2013, If you own all of the major video game consoles, you probably tend to use your PlayStation 3 when it comes to Netflix. Which is why we’re not entirely surprised to hear Netflix is announcing an update to its player on [...]
Netflix Streamling Library Bids Farewell To Over 1700 Titles
05/01/2013, This month, the Netflix Streaming Library is shaving off some serious weight. Over 1700 titles are going to expire this month, meaning that they will no longer be available for streaming. One of the reasons for this is that Netflix’s [...]
Yahoo Gets 38 Season Archive Of Saturday Night Live
04/25/2013, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today that they have reached an exclusive agreement with Broadway Video, which brings the entire 38 season archive of Saturday Night Live on Yahoo. As part of this deal, clips from the current season will [...]
Netflix iOS App Update Brings New Design And Episode Selector
04/22/2013, Netflix has been in the news today as it released its quarterly letter to shareholders, but that’s not the only thing they did today. The Netflix iOS app has been updated, though its not a major revamp, it does bring [...]
Netflix Adding $12 Four Simultaneous Stream Family Plan Soon
04/22/2013, Netflix subscribers are currently permitted to simultaneously stream two TV shows or movies on separate devices. This limit might not suit families who’d rather have one subscription take care of all their content streaming needs. Today the company has announced [...]
Amazon Studios Starts Free Streaming Of 14 Original Series Pilots
04/21/2013, Last month we heard that Amazon Studios was moving in to the production of original content, which would bring it at par with its rivals such as Netflix and Hulu. They have now started streaming all new 14 original series [...]
Netflix Ditching Microsoft Sliverlight For HTML5
04/16/2013, Those of you who have been using Netflix on your computer instead of a set-top-box or video game console are probably familiar with Microsoft Silverlight as it has been the plugin of choice to be able to stream Netflix videos [...]
Netflix Reaches 4 Billion Hours Of Streaming Video Milestone In Q1 2013
04/12/2013, Netflix has had quite the first quarter of 2013 as the company’s CEO Reed Hastings took to his Facebook yesterday to not only promote its exclusive show, House of Cards, but also to announce its customers have watched over 4 [...]
Spotify Rumored To Be Interested In Video Streaming And Original Content As Well
03/26/2013, Spotify is probably well-known to music lovers as a service in which they are able to stream songs. However according to recent rumors, perhaps streaming songs isn’t enough for the company and word has it that perhaps videos might be [...]
Zombieland TV Series May Come To Life On Amazon Prime
03/25/2013, Zombieland the movie was released back in 2009. It is safe to say that the movie was a hit. Its fans will no doubt be happy to hear that a Zombieland TV series may come to life on Amazon Prime, [...]
Blockbuster UK Finds Buyer, Half Of Stores To Close
03/24/2013, It is merely been two months since Blockbuster UK announced that it had ended up in administration. That’s the UK’s version of filing Chapter 11. An investment bank called Gordon Brothers Europe has bought Blockbuster. The sum has not been disclosed. [...]
Netflix Offers $100,000 In Prizes For Improvement Ideas
03/14/2013, Netflix wants your brains to think of innovative solutions on their behalf, and of course, for all your hard work and enterprising spirit, you will be rewarded financially. In fact, Netflix, the streaming video industry behemoth, has put up a [...]
Netflix Launches ISP Speed Index Site To Rank Global Video Streaming
03/12/2013, In its attempt to fight for its users to experience episodes of Pawn Stars in as high definition as possible, Netflix started ranking ISPs dubbing Google Fiber as the best service to watch its video streaming service on. Since then, [...]
