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Amazon Picks Up More NBCUniversal Shows

Amazon is boosting its Web video catalog via a deal for reruns of several shows from NBC and other channels owned by Comcast. Amazon’s “Prime Instant Video” customers will get exclusive access to shows including “Grimm,” “Suits” and “Hannibal”; as with almost all deals Amazon and competitor Netflix sign for TV reruns, the Web retailer won’t get its hands on them until months after they air.

Netflix Nabs an HBO Engineer

Rob Caruso, the cable channel’s VP of digital projects, heads to the all-digital video service.
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Android-on-Windows Specialist BlueStacks Takes Aim at Console Gaming

Moving beyond the desktop, BlueStacks is launching GamePop — an Android-based console with a subscription game service.
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Personal Information Is the Currency of the 21st Century

Privacy is dead. Get over it.
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YouTube Is Happy to Take Your Money, but What It Really Wants Are Ad Dollars

YouTube subscriptions may open up a revenue stream for the world’s largest video site. But it’s going to be a trickle compared to its main business.
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Is Internet Killing the Video Star?

Applying lessons learned from the music industry to TV.
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Hulu’s Pitch to Advertisers: Four Million People Pay Us to See Your Ads!

Hulu’s ownership structure is up in the air. But it still needs to sell advertising and subscriptions; both seem to be going pretty well.
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Where’s Amazon Going With Music, Movies and TV Shows? Ask Media Boss Bill Carr.

“We’re committed to the idea of reinvention.” A rare Q&A with one of most important guys in the media business.
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LivingSocial, Netflix and the Galaxy S 4 Reviewed — 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week

A convenient roundup of the Top 10 stories that powered AllThingsD.com this week.
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Reed Hastings’s $300 Million Year