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(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc.

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc.

Shares of movie-rental kiosk operator Coinstar gained strongly on news of two strategic deals. Yet investors can still profit from this stock.

The two companies will combine to try to give customers more access to video on the Web, and possibly position the new venture as an alternative to Netflix.

Netflix made its first foray into original content today with the streaming of Lilyhammer, an eight-episode series that follows a mobster's undercover adventures in Norway. Its trailer was promising! The actual show? Less so. More »

A new Internet streaming venture built around Redbox's DVD-rental kiosks adds to a crowded field of online video-viewing services dominated by Netflix....

Betting that a combination of Internet streaming and kiosk DVD rentals can give consumers the most complete package in a fractured media landscape, Redbox and Verizon are teaming on a movie rental service to launch in the second half of this year. The still unnamed business will challenge Netflix by offering a combination of streaming video on digital devices along with rentals from Redbox's mo...

The wireless provider and the owner of the Redbox DVD rental service are teaming up to take on their rival by launching a video streaming service

The Nasdaq is at its highest level since the end of 2000. Highly speculative companies like Netflix and Zynga are soaring, and investors are salivating about possibly paying 100 times earnings for Facebook when it goes public.

Netflix launched its first foray into original programming with the release of the TV show Lilyhammer Monday. The show, which stars Steven van Zandt as an ex-mobster in a witness protection program in Norway, was co-financed by Netflix and is, at least in the U.S., only available to the company's subscribers -- a move that mirrors original series produced by cable networks like HBO and Showtime...

A new service will offer streaming videos and downloads, notes media columnist Jon Friedman

Verizon and DVD kiosk company Redbox said Monday that they're teaming up on a streaming video partnership, a move that puts Netflix squarely in their crosshairs.

Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like the mysterious Project Zoetrope will soon be seeing the light of day. Verizon and Redbox owner Coinstar have just taken to the wires today to announce their new joint venture in video entertainment, with their subscription services poised to launch in the second half of this year. Details are still light at the moment (though a 9:30 AM conference call should...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Challenging Netflix, Verizon says it will start a video streaming service later this year in cooperation with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks....

"Lilyhammer" spielt in Norwegen, wurde in Norwegen hergestellt, in den USA exklusiv von Netflix verbreitet und von einem deutschen Unternehmen vermarktet - aber nicht nur das zeichnet die Serie aus. Der norwegische Ministerpräsident wirbt dafür auf seiner Facebook-Seite und die Hauptrolle eines Ex-Mafioso spielt Musiker Steven van Zandt.

Netflix's first original series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York mobster who retreats into witness protection in Norway.In "Lilyhammer," whose eight parts debut Monday as an exclusive Netflix stream, Steven Van Zandt retries his Silvio wig from the "Sopranos" costume box to play Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano, a New York mobster who retreats into witness protection in Lillehammer, Norway. He re...

“Lilyhammer,” starring Steven Van Zandt as a wiseguy in witness protection in Norway, is the first original series on Netflix and is available via streaming video.

The story begins as Frankie Tagliano, a mobbed up New York bar owner, becomes a FBI informant and is sent away on the witness protection plan by his own request to Norway.

Well this is inneresting!! Lindsay Lohan was seen with Henry Lee Hopper at an El Lay liquor store in broad daylight!! Hmmm…. Maybe a little date night in?? Netflix, some pizza, and the Goose?? LOL!! This makes those Chateau Marmont rumors seem even more believable now!! Oooh, LiLo, be smart gurl!!! Sigh… maybe Henry Lee is [...]

The Netflix app is a great option for subscribers - but only if you've got access to Wi-Fi.

When Netflix launched in the UK last month, it made one thing clear: the online television and film service was not bothered about scrapping with LoveFilm, its most obvious rival. It was here to do battle with BSkyB, and get its hands on a bigger prize altogether.

BSkyB will initially allow customers to pay to download films without a contract or a satellite dish but will expand its offer to include sport and entertainment soon afterwards.

Netflix is the highest flying stock on the S&P 500 Thursday, but was its fourth-quarter earnings report enough to justify a 22% run up in the stock?

Starbucks, Caterpillar beat forecasts, provide bright outlook, Netflix rebounds; U.S. home sales drop for first time in four months; Wall Street dips

El sitio estadounidense de transmisión de video Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) estima que requerirá de más de dos años para que sus operaciones en Latinoamérica, lanzadas el año pasado, se vuelvan rentables, ...

Netflix shares surged 22% to $116 in Thursday morning trading following the video provider's better-than-expected fourth-quarter results.

US video streaming site Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) believes it will take longer than two years to reach profitability in its Latin American operations, launched last year, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told a...

The company also ended with 24.4 million subscribers

The streaming video service, seen as vital to the future, had a robust rise in subscribers.

The video subscription service is beginning to recover from a customer revolt last summer.

Company signs up 600,000 new U.S. subscribers as financial results outpace estimates; shares surge 13 per cent after hours

With streaming service Netflix launching in the UK into an already crowded market, Spencer Kelly looks at who might be victorious on the on-demand battleground.

theodp writes "What would you say if you went to join a gym and were told that it could cost you anywhere from $360 a year to $68,000 a year for the exact same usage? Don't be ridiculous, right? Well, that's really not so different from what the potential costs of streaming video on an AT&T smartphone are. According to AT&T's Data Usage Calculator, 1,440 minutes worth of streaming video...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Netflix's stock has suffered a much-publicized nosedive in recent months, and now a group of shareholders is hitting the subscription service with a class action suit. Filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the suit alleges that the home entertainment company gave false and misleading statements about its business practices and contract...

VIDEO-STREAMING service Netflix was launched on the Irish and British markets this week with a library of films and TV shows that one of its staff says would take several lifetimes to watch.

Der amerikanische Computerkonzern wollte mit dem Projekt Anbietern wie Netflix oder Amazon Konkurrenz machen. Nur wenige Monate vor dem Start kippt Microsoft das Projekt, weil die Lizenzkosten zu hoch sind.

Sony said that its PlayStation Vita handheld entertainment gadgets will debut in the US market on February 22 with access to popular streaming film and television service Netflix.

[[345653]] LAS VEGAS (Etats-Unis) (AFP) : Sony a confirmé lundi que sa nouvelle console de jeux Playstation Vita se doublait d'un lecteur multimédia à part entière, en indiquant qu'aux Etats-Unis, où elle sera lancée le 22 février, elle permettrait d'accéder à l'offre de vidéo en ligne de...

Le fondateur et directeur général de Netflix, Reed Hastings, l'avait promis pour début 2012. C'est chose faite : la société californienne a lancé hier son offre au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande. Les utilisateurs du service disposent d'un mois d'essai gratuit puis ils seront facturés 5,99 livres par...

Online film and television rental company Netflix launched in the Republic today and is charging subscribers a monthly fee of €6.99 to access its film and television content.

Online film and television rental company Netflix launched in the Republic today and is charging subscribers a monthly fee of €6.99 to access its film and television content.

American film-streaming giant Netflix has launched in the UK this week - offering unlimited access to films and TV shows for £5.99 a month. But the company will not have an easy ride.

The return of the British television series "Downton Abbey" to PBS for a second season Sunday thrills a demographic that doesn’t usually find common cause with monarchist Tories: progressives and feminists, who, judging from the Internet, are utterly obsessed. But whether this is a triumph of production values (or character development) over politics depends on how you read the goings-on in the...

By Alicia Taubert University of Nebraska at Omaha Put down that sugar cookie.  I know, I know, it feels like Christmas break just started, but...

DVD rentals are far from dead. That's great news for the owner of Redbox, which is taking more U.S. market share as Netflix focuses on video streaming and growth abroad.

Whether Netflix jumped on Arrested in an effort to toss a bone to its ornery subscriber base, or if it is just the next step in its original-content strategy, the deal shows that the company is not backing down

A US judge granted Netflix’s bid to resolve all claims in its favour before trial in an antitrust class actions.

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Nov 21 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc said it agreed to sell $200 million worth of convertible debt to private equity firm Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV).

Acclaimed US comedy Arrested Development is to go back into production, five years after it was cancelled, TV on demand service Netflix announces.

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Arrested Development" is coming back to life on the Netflix video streaming service....

INTERNET bandits hijacked more than four million computers in more than 100 countries, manipulating traffic on Netflix, the US Internal Revenue Service and other websites to generate at least $US14 million ($13.83 million) in fraudulent advertising revenue, US prosecutors say.

US home entertainment company Netflix has signed a deal with movie giant MGM to stream films through its subscription service when it expands into the Irish and British markets next year.

The company is betting heavily on the growth of online video delivery.