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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Will Leave Microsoft Board

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who has been on Microsoft’s board of directors since 2007, says he’ll step down in November. Microsoft says it will nominate a replacement for Hastings, who was the board’s “lead independent director” at its annual meeting. Last year, Hastings joined Facebook’s board.


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I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts … [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.

— HBO programming president Michael Lombardo, talking to Entertainment Weekly about the “rampant” piracy of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”