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Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon’s Lovefilm
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with a £5.99 ($7.79) monthly pricepoint for unlimited online movie and TV subscription streaming – £1 more than Lovefilm’s equivalent offering.
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Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online streaming, as it begins to defend against Netflix’s imminent UK arrival.
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Netflix Faces Higher Prices For HBO, Agrees To Doubled DVD Delays From WB
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth about the competition perceived and real between the subscription service and HBO.
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Can Apple Shake Up TV Like It Has Mobile With Its iPhone?
The anticipation and speculation surrounding what could be the next product on the cards for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)—Apple TV—raises some questions about how, and if, the TV industry will get as disrupted by Apple as the mobile world did with the introduction of the iPhone.
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France Telecom’s Orange Looks To 3D And Xbox For New TV Bells And Whistles
With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France Telecom’s Orange, which has signed deals with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to offer Orange TV via the Xbox platform, and France’s answer to Google’s YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), Dailymotion, for an online 3D channel.
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Xbox 360 Leads The Way To Engaged TV
Interactive TV, a phrase still used but painful to hear, grates like the name of an old girlfriend, conjuring up hopes long since unfulfilled yet still surprisingly fresh. Gratefully, it’s time to put old notions of interactive TV behind us because this week Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will release a user experience update to the Xbox 360 that will do for the TV what decades of promises and industry joint ventures have never managed to pull off.
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Netflix’s Global Funding Makes Sense—If It Can Rescue Domestic
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fuel international expansion and that 2012 will be a loss-making year.
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The Morning Lowdown 11-22-11
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:
» Penguin pulls e-books from libraries across the land, citing “security concerns” (paidContent)
» Oh, HP: Firm’s Q4 results report billions squandered on Palm (NYSE: HPQ) and webOS (The Verge)
» Oh, Netflix: Company dilutes itself with new stock issue, will lose money next year (Business Insider)
» The Facebook phone will be named “Buffy” (paidContent)
» The NYT goes after young talent at Huffington Post (Capital NY)
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Netflix Will Rely On Rival Amazon’s Cloud For Years To Come
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) may compete in online movie streaming – but the former plans to remain a customer of the latter even as the pair fight each other in global markets.
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Kindle Fire, First Reviews: Hot Gadget Or Just Another Lukewarm Tablet?
A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets.
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