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Reed Hastings stepped down and took the sheen off Netflix’s surprisingly solid subscriber numbers
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoNetflix’s co-founder and chief stole the show from a surprise uptick in subscriptions. The streaming...
Netflix co-founder Hastings steps down as CEO as company adds subscribers
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Netflix Inc co-founder Reed Hastings stepped down as chief executive of the...
Blockbuster’s ex-CEO, still plagued as ‘the guy that failed to keep up with technology’, insists...
Fortune via AOL· 3 months agoWe're mostly all familiar with the story of Blockbuster's downfall: Once a fixture on every high...
Movie lovers made it their first Blockbuster night on this day in 1985
Yahoo Movies via AOL· 7 months agoBlockbuster Video rented its first VHS tapes on Oct. 19, 1985. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News;...
Blockbuster ‘laughed us out of the room,’ recalls Netflix cofounder on trying to sell company now...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoNetflix wasn’t always an entertainment behemoth. In 2000, it was an unprofitable startup offering...
How technology unlocks business models: The story of Netflix
TechCrunch ExtraCrunch· 1 year agoThe proof of operating concept for Netflix was confirmed. This week, 16 years after its reinvention...
Netflix DVD Rental Business, Dead at 25
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNetflix DVDs are going the way of Blockbuster (the store, as well as the streamer’s own show of that name). The company’s DVD rental business, formerly...
A Look Back at Consumer Internet Stocks' Q1 Earnings: Booking (NASDAQ:BKNG) Vs The Rest Of The Pack
StockStory via Yahoo Finance· 14 hours agoA Look Back at Consumer Internet Stocks' Q1 Earnings: Booking (NASDAQ:BKNG) Vs The Rest Of The Pack...
The Odd Couple Steering Netflix Through a Comeback
The Wall Street Journal via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoWhen Netflix announced last year that Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos would become co-CEOs of the streaming giant, some executives inside the company...
A Eulogy for Netflix’s DVD-by-Mail Era
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn April 18, Netflix announced that it was “sunsetting” — aka terminating — its material-world DVD rental option. The last picture show in the form of...