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We sent a company down the daily Walk of Shame earlier this week. In my eyes, it had no business feeling guilty.

This is the day the U.S. Postal Service has dreaded - the beginning of the end for Netflix mailers.

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A WSJ article regarding Netflix , " Netflix's Stock Buybacks: Money to Burn " by Martin Peers, caught our attention.

Wall Street's bulls took a breather last week, and e-commerce stocks would have joined the downward trend as well but for the lift provided by leading online retailer Amazon.com Inc.

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According to a recent market report, the U.S. DVD and video sales and rental market was valued at $7.6 billion in 2008, of which brick-and-mortar stores claimed 69% of the revenue share.

Remember all the furore back in August , when Microsoft announced they'd locked up Netflix movie streaming for the Xbox 360 and basically told us it was an "exclusive" partnership? A Well, that exclusivity seems to have been short-lived; Sony have announced that from November Netflix subscribers will be able to stream content on their PS3.

The L.A. Times reports that the studios are considering adding a DVD rental window that would delay Netflix, Blockbuster and Redbox from renting movies for several weeks after the DVD release: In an effort to push consumers toward buying more movies, some major film studios are considering a new policy that would block DVDs from being offered for ...

Today: It's all about tech toys: Netflix is bringing streaming movies to Sony's PlayStation 3, and carriers announce pricing and sale dates for Palm's new Pixi and Research In Motion's new BlackBerry Storm 2. Netflix on PS3 You may know Netflix best as the Los Gatos company that sends DVDs through the mail in bright red envelopes.

"If you build it, they will come." That's why Netflix is building its online infrastructure around devices you may already have in your entertainment center, right next to that 52" LCD screen.

Speaking about the news that NetFlix is coming to the PS3, Sony's Jack Tretton noted that the PS3 system is now the only solution to do it all with regards to video streaming.

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DVD rental company Netflix Inc. is betting that its plan to stream content to users' TVs through Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console may help it win millions of new customers, but the deal's benefits are uncertain as competitive threats from other digital content providers remain, said Janney Montgomery Scott analyst analyst Tony Wible on Oct.

There's little doubt that Netflix Inc. , the online movie rental service, is hot.

Netflix is finally looking towards a streaming future, with the death of DVD predicted, plans for services on other devices - notably the PS3 and Wii - and a move outside the United States and into unspecified international territories.

Netflix Inc. , the largest U.S. mail- order movie-rental service, rose as much as 16 percent in Nasdaq trading after raising its full-year sales and earnings forecast.

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On Netflix's Q3 earnings call , CEO Reed Hastings announced plans to take Netflix's digital offering international, sometime in the second half of 2010.

In this July 23 file photo, Netflix customer Arthur Michelson poses the "Frost Nixon" DVD he rented from Netflix in front of his television at his home in Palo Alto.

How does a leisure company grow during a cash-strapped recession? Give customers what they want.

Analysts had generally positive reactions Friday to third-quarter results reported by Netflix Inc., sending the online DVD rental pioneer's shares to a new one-year high.

Los Gatos-based Netflix Inc., the largest U.S. mail- order movie-rental service, rose as much as 16 percent after raising its full-year sales and earnings forecast.

A week ago in an interview with The Motley Fool Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' said that he believed the DVD would only be the "primary delivery form" for Netflix for another two years.

You wouldn't know there's been a slowdown in consumer spending by looking at Amazon.com and Netflix.

Netflix, Inc. today reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009.

Netflix Inc. , the largest U.S. mail- order movie-rental service, said third-quarter profit rose 48 percent on increased subscriptions.

Los Gatos DVD-by-mail pioneer Netflix is scheduled to report its third-quarter results after the market closes Thursday.

Best Buy Co. and Netflix Inc. have taken a step to bridge the gap between Internet and television.

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Time to stop procrastinating and reserve your ticket to NewTeeVee Live ! Today, Oct.

State schools chief Jack O'Connell will not be a candidate for governor next year, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

Netflix has announced that it will premiere a new three-part Internet genre series called SPLATTER at its website on October 29, two days before Halloween.

In an interview with John Byrne, BusinessWeek.com's executive editor/editor-in-chief, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings conceded that his business faces similar troubles to what magazines are up against, as the use of broadband video is set to rise.

Five years may not seem like much when compared to the nearly 25 years that Bob Edwards served as a morning-show host on National Public Radio.

Like two movies going head to head on opening weekend, Netflix Inc. and Blockbuster Inc.

Watchers of streaming video trends are buzzing after a remark by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in a Montley Fool podcast that DVDs may lose their number one spot for t he company's video distribution after two years.

When most people clean out their closet, they usually either lug the castoffs to a consignment store, trade pieces with friends or simply donate the whole lot to Goodwill.

According to CEO Reed Hastings, physical DVDs will remain the prioritized movie delivery format for Netflix for the next two years, before the company moves its focus to either streaming video or Blu-ray . Hastings does add however that the DVDs will continue to be part of the company's business for the next 20 years.

The Kindle is just one example of a high-tech device or service not immediately available in Canada.

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Netflix to Stream New Roger Corman Web Series 'Splatter' for Free Roger Corman , prolific low-budget film director, has teamed up with Netflix to launch a new web series starring Corey Feldman .

In honor of Halloween, bust out the popcorn, soda, and candy and host scary movie night for you and your friends.

Starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time today, people were able to start watching The Wizard of Oz for free online.

Netflix, Inc. , the world's largest online movie rental service, today announced that it will invite America to a free and commercially uninterrupted online screening of the newly restored 1939 classic, " The Wizard of Oz ," on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Limelight Networks, Inc today announced that the company is working with iStreamPlanet to provide delivery services for Netflix's free online screening of the " The Wizard of Oz ," occurring tomorrow, Saturday, October 3, 2009, powered by Microsoft Silverlight and Internet Information Services Smooth ...

Netflix 2008 sales up 13 percent as DVD sales suffer at media and entertainment companies.

"For more than three years, teams of heavily invested and entirely uncompensated computer scientists poured their creative efforts into a goal that only a true techie could appreciate -- improving the algorithms that Netflix uses to make movie suggestions to its customers.