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Netflix in Talks for Original Series

Ethan Smith and Nick Wingfield, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 15, 2011 at 8:19 pm PT

Netflix Inc. is in advanced talks to distribute a forthcoming television series directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey, said people familiar with the talks. If such a deal were to come to fruition it would add a new competitor to the television industry by increasing the degree to which Netflix vies with premium-cable television channels like Time Warner Inc.’s HBO.

HBO to Apple: iWin

John Paczkowski in News on May 13, 2008 at 12:12 pm PT

Steve Jobs has apparently accepted the unacceptable: Things don’t always go Steve’s way. The mercurial Apple CEO has been notoriously intransigent when it comes to matters of variable pricing on iTunes, arguing that charging higher prices for more popular content might backfire, sending customers off to the file-sharing networks.