Hostile takeovers can be a bitter pill to swallow, but Netflix has adopted a "stockholder rights plan" -- also known as a "poison pill" -- to prevent activist shareholders from taking control. It could be a bitter pill for Carl Icahn, who last week bought a nearly 10 percent stake in the struggling ...
Dish Network is abandoning plans to develop Blockbuster into astreaming video service that would directly compete with Netflix, company founder and chairman Charlie Ergen said in an interview. Dish acquired the video rental chain for $320 million in April of 2011, months after Blockbuster filed for ...
Net neutrality boils down to the basic decision we need to make as a country. There are three different tracks we can take, and we have to choose one. One, broadband is just another service from the phone company or cable television company. They control everything, including which sites get the fas...
Recently, I gave a speech at a company and one of the executives raised an interesting question: Will Apple or Google -- or both -- enter the wireless networking fray, just as both have become competitors in the smartphone side of the business? I believe the answer is yes. How is the question. When ...
The Borders near me closed the other month. Wasn't surprising. Ditto for Circuit City. Gone. A few years prior to that it was Hollywood Video that rolled its end credits. The problem is, none of them had to go. They each died of self-inflicted wounds. Sure, a lot of their CEOs came out and blamed Ir...
The starting gun has just been fired. The new Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet have entered the tablet space, preparded to compete with the Apple iPad. That means this new industry segment will quickly change and evolve into a completely new and different model. The problem is, ...
I'm one of the thousands of Netflix customers who were outraged by the movie rental giant's decision to change its pricing structure. No one likes the idea of paying more for less, and no matter how you slice it, that's exactly what Netflix is asking its customers to do. Begrudgingly, I've decided t...
Electronic Arts could be on the verge of closing a deal to acquire casual game creator PopCap for a sum exceeding $1 billion. The high price tag on the deal represents a big wager for EA -- the cost is 13 percent of the company's market cap. The move is viewed by some as a "hail mary" attempt by E...
No doubt you've heard the term "Net neutrality." Proponents and opponents have much to say on this topic. However, many Internet users don't even know what it means, or how it will affect them. What is Net neutrality? "Net neutrality" is short for "network neutrality" or "Internet neutrality." The c...
Americans seem to love television as much as ever. But they're increasingly viewing it through non-traditional means, usually involving the Web. The number of mobile subscribers watching TV on their mobile phones, for example, increased 41 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of 2010, Nielse...
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