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Survey Sez: Consumers Still Miffed at Netflix, but Give Even Bigger Kiss to Amazon

Kara Swisher in Commerce on December 27, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

The hits from the online video service’s missteps just keep coming!

Apple’s Apps Flying Off the Virtual Shelves: 6.6 Million Downloads Per Day

Peter Kafka in Media on September 28, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

It took Apple a year to move its first 1.5 billion apps from its iTunes store. It took a mere 76 days to move the next 500 million.

Michael Jackson’s Last Performance on the Web: Big, but Not Obama Big

Peter Kafka in Media on July 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm PT

Depending on your perspective, this is either interesting news or heartening news: Michael Jackson’s funeral and memorial were indeed a giant Internet event. But they don’t seem to have been as big as Michael Jackson’s death, and they weren’t as big as Barack Obama’s inauguration. So, let’s call them the third-biggest Web event of the year. To date.