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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.
Panasonic Blu-ray players having issues with Netflix?
05/27/2011, The folks over at CNET recently posted up a new report concerning a certain Blu-ray player which they gave the Editor’s Choice Award: the Panasonic DMP-BDT210. As of recent, there have been a number of customers complaining about the player’s [...]
Netflix for Android updated to support more devices
05/26/2011, While Netflix for Android was launched with only five devices supported, it looks like the company is working hard to get it on as many Android phones as possible. A new update for the Android app was released today, bringing [...]
Netflix works on your HTC ThunderBolt running Gingerbread
05/23/2011, When Netflix for Android was first launched it was only supported on 5 phones – which meant a lot of Android users were left out of the picture. But the Android community made short work of the app’s protection and [...]
Netflix is doing its job to reduce piracy in North America
05/17/2011, We’ve previously covered about how bit-torrent downloading rates in the US have been going down, while the number of Netflix subscribers has been slowly rising. Well, it looks like we have more details to corroborate with the theory that Netflix [...]
Modified Netflix APK works without rooting your phone
05/16/2011, Now we all know that Netflix for Android was launched only for a handful of devices and chances are, your phone isn’t one of the supported phones. Well, a workaround was discovered that enabled rooted devices to trick the app [...]
Miramax makes a 5-year deal with Netflix
05/16/2011, Movie buffs will be glad to know that their favorite movie distributor has just signed a deal with Netflix to provide hundreds of movie from their catalog. Get ready to enjoy movies like Clerks, The English Patient, Good Will Hunting, [...]
Netflix not reimbursing affected PS3 customers for PSN downtime (Updated!)
05/16/2011, UPDATE: I apologize for the slightly incorrect report. GigaOm originally reported that Netflix was inaccessible to PSN users during the 26-day outage. It appears most Netflix users were unaffected by it. Any users who were unable to access Netflix during [...]
Roku hits 15 million channel downloads
05/09/2011, If anybody’s wondering about the success of Roku’s internet TV platform, they can wonder no more. In a press release issued today, Roku announced that it has delivered 15 million channel downloads to its base of over 1 million Roku [...]
DVD sales down by 20%, Netflix subscriptions up 33%
05/04/2011, Is the DVD format about to die out? According to a report by the Digital Entertainment Group, DVD sales in the US, Q1 2011 have dropped 20% when compared to Q1 2010. Studios blamed the fall in sales due to [...]
LG Revolution press shot leaked
05/01/2011, The pocketnow team really seems to be on a roll. They’ve gotten their hands on yet another leaked press shot, and this time it’s of the LG Revolution. LG’s upcoming Android phone for Verizon will join the ranks of the [...]
LG Revolution to come preloaded with Netflix
04/29/2011, Netflix is finally arriving on Android. After what seemed like forever, we finally have news about the movie streaming service making its appearance on Google’s mobile operating system. It looks like Netflix has finally sorted out the DRM issues and [...]
Is Netflix killing BitTorrent?
04/28/2011, According to an interesting observation reported by TorrentFreak, Netflix might be doing more than just serving Americans their daily doses of videos and movies – Netflix might actually be killing off piracy. They’ve noticed that as the number of Netflix [...]
Netflix profit increases, shares down
04/25/2011, Netflix might have seen its profit soar by a whopping 88% during the first quarter as the movie rental company increased its global subscriber base by another 3.6 million people, but that does not mean it is doing well on [...]
