Netflix has been in the news quite a bit recently, with its price hike and the subsequent loss of subscribers, as well as its plummeting stock value and the controversy surrounding the construction of its new corporate headquarters. The company’s CEO announced Sunday that company has decided to spin off its DVD division.
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After all the fanfare that accompanied the launch of Google+, it is worth seeing whether Google’s new site is really keeping its promise of transforming the way people use social media, or whether it is just a pie in the sky, or even more likely, an idea engine for Facebook developers. The numbers tell at least part of the story.
Campbell has good schools, good shopping and good transportation to just about anywhere in Silicon Valley.
Things have not been going well for Netflix. The company miscalculated how its user base would respond to its price hike, and thought that the threats to jump ship were just that—idle threats.
Travel sites like Kayak and Orbitz promise their customers the best prices on flights between locations. So does Google, with its new Google Flight Search tool.
Did eBay steal confidential information from Craigslist to launch its own classifieds site? Craigslist says it did, and the classified ads company’s complaint is now being investigated by prosecutors with the Justice Department.
First Steve Jobs resigned from Apple. Then Carol Bartz was told to resign from Yahoo. Now rumors are swirling around the Internet that Cisco’s John Chambers will announce his resignation at his company’s annual financial analyst conference later today.
When twins are toddlers and they dress alike, it can actually be kind of cute. When twins are 30 years old and they dress alike, it gets kind of creepy. That hasn’t stopped the Winklevoss twins from donning identical suits and fluorescent green ties to promote pistachios.
It all began with a tweet by the CBS “What’s Trending?” Twitter feed on Friday afternoon. For a few brief moments, the world was led to believe that Steve Jobs is dead. A short time later, “What’s Trending?” removed the tweet and issued an oddly worded retraction, “Apologies- reports of Steve Job’s death completely unconfirmed. Live on.”
Rumors are circulating around the web that AOL is interested in acquiring Yahoo. Bloomberg reports that CEO Tim Armstrong of AOL has been in talks with Yahoo’s new council of advisers, now that Bartz is out of the picture. Such a merger, they claim, would help two companies now in decline to regain their momentum against such web giants as Google and Facebook. While Yahoo is valued at more than 10 times the value of AOL, Wired notes that “with additional backing and some kind of plan it wouldn’t be impossible to alter Yahoo’s financial future.”
