Peter Kafka in Media on December 5, 2011 at 10:20 am PT
A story about embargoes. No, wait! Where are you going?
Peter Kafka in Media on September 19, 2011 at 7:30 am PT
Which is what Reed Hastings really wants to call the new/old Netflix DVD business. Turns out you can learn a lot when you watch a CEO take on his blog-post commenters.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 15, 2011 at 12:08 pm PT
Bad day for Netflix shares. Good day to have Ted Sarandos on stage fielding questions at an industry event.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 15, 2011 at 4:17 am PT
Netflix, which instituted a price hike earlier this fall, says the higher costs are turning off more customers than it expected — it is cutting Q3 subscriber projections by four percent.
Kara Swisher in News on August 31, 2011 at 10:58 am PT
MailChimp, the Atlanta-based email marketing service, has bought TinyLetter, which is well-known entrepreneur Phil Kaplan’s most recent start-up.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on August 10, 2011 at 8:16 am PT
As expected, Groupon gave up its controversial accounting metric in a new IPO filing, which also showed strong revenue and subscriber growth.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 5, 2011 at 12:05 pm PT
Here’s a handy helper for those following the fate of the Hulu premium online video service, whose noisy efforts to sell itself have gotten a lot of attention of late:
“In preliminary talks” = “hawking itself to one of a half dozen big moneybag tech companies who will visit with Hulu’s bankers and management to see its presentation at Morgan Stanley’s office in Century City in Los Angeles.”
John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2011 at 2:51 pm PT
Looks like Sirius XM’s run of good luck will continue well into the new year. New-vehicle retail sales data from J.D. Power and Associates suggests an increase in consumer demand for new cars. And for Sirius that means continued subsciber growth–perhaps even significant subscriber growth.
Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 8, 2011 at 12:25 am PT
Earlier tonight, it was revealed in numerous news reports that Twitter had been ordered by a U.S. federal judge to turn over documents related to several people involved with WikiLeaks.
Here’s what Twitter had to say to BoomTown in response, as well as what CEO Dick Costolo said onstage yesterday at the
D@CES event about the importance of the free flow of information.
John Paczkowski in News on December 13, 2010 at 9:30 am PT
Kinect, Microsoft’s new controllerless controller for the Xbox 360 is shaping up to be a monster hit, one that should give the gaming platform momentum enough to carry it forward for some time to come. In fact, Caris & Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal says he expects Kinect to generate about $2 billion in gross revenue for Microsoft.
