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Netflix Reboots “Arrested Development” with an Exclusive Streaming Deal

Peter Kafka in Media on November 18, 2011 at 6:49 pm PT

More fresh content for Reed Hastings, this time via a cult comedy that’s been off the air for five years.

Has Netflix Put Its Checkbook Away?

Peter Kafka in Media on November 17, 2011 at 5:23 am PT

If you’re waiting to hear about more big Netflix content deals in the near future, you may be disappointed.

Will Zynga’s CastleVille Be Able to Top CityVille?

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 3, 2011 at 8:00 pm PT

Since Zynga launched CityVille nearly a year ago, it has dominated the top of the social games charts. Will Zynga’s newest ’Ville be able to top it?

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DreamWorks Announces Netflix Deal

Peter Kafka in Media on September 26, 2011 at 3:43 am PT

DreamWorks Animation, the people who brought you “Shrek,” will be bringing their movies to Netflix. The company announced the deal Sunday, confirming earlier reports that it was exiting a deal with Time Warner’s HBO a year early. Netflix needs new content deals to help attract new customers and appease dissatisfied ones, but this one won’t help for a while — DreamWorks movies won’t arrive until 2013.

Netflix Grabs DreamWorks Deal From HBO

Peter Kafka in Media on July 25, 2011 at 4:18 am PT

More movies you’ve heard of should end up in your Netflix queue — in a couple years.

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Groupon Appoints Mellody Hobson to Board of Directors

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 22, 2011 at 3:57 pm PT

Groupon has added Mellody Hobson to its board. Hobson is president of Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based money management firm, but she may be better known as a spokesperson for financial literacy and investor education and as a regular contributor to “Good Morning America” and other shows. She is also a director for DreamWorks Animation, the Estée Lauder Companies and Starbucks.

Zynga Gets Kung Fu'd Following DreamWorks Board Addition

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 20, 2011 at 8:41 am PT

Last month, Zynga added Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO and co-founder of DreamWorks Animation, to its board of directors, hinting at its aspirations to add more entertainment to its social games.

Gaming at CES to Span Kinect-Like Controls for PCs, But Nothing Major From Nintendo

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 3, 2011 at 5:38 pm PT

This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there will be more than 35 exhibitors from the gaming industry, ranging from Nintendo, which hasn’t attended in 16 years, to Microsoft, which will hopefully provide a sales update for the Kinect, its popular hands-free Xbox accessory.