Tagged: netflix

3:18pm

Tue June 4, 2013
Business

Amazon adds Dora the Explorer, other kids' shows with Viacom deal

Credit Alan Alfaro

Amazon has signed a deal with Viacom for online rights to hundreds of TV shows. But the most important shows are ones geared toward kids.

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5:00am

Mon November 26, 2012
Business

Would Microsoft or Amazon.com buy Netflix? Doubtful, analyst says

Credit JD Lasica

Amazon.com and Microsoft are two of the cash-rich companies that investors speculate may be interested in buying Netflix. But would either of them want to? One analyst says he doubts it.

Activist investor Carl Icahn kicked up the takeover speculation last month when he disclosed that he’s bought 10 percent of Netflix. He says Netflix is too small on its own and needs to be bought by a bigger company – like Amazon, Microsoft or Google.

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4:30am

Wed July 18, 2012
Food for Thought

Does Yelp help? Or is it pointless whining?

Credit Stein / Stein Software and Garlic Management Associates

I read my first Yelp restaurant review this past weekend and I'm pretty sure it'll be my last. So many of the posts were so whiny that they weren't even as amusing as those really dumb Netflix Member Reviews.

You know the ones ...

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