The agreement by Netflix and other top video-rental services to wait 28 days before renting newly released DVDs appears to be boosting disc sales--as... read more »
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Google announced its first Chrome-based notebooks at its Google I/O conference here. (Credit: CNET/James Martin) SAN FRANCISCO--Google announce... read more »
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NEW YORK--Edgar Bronfman Jr., CEO of Warner Music Group and heir to a huge beverage fortune, received more than $17 million in total compensation for... read more »
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(Credit: Experian Hitwise) Just in case you haven't had your fill yet of top-10 lists and countdowns for 2010, today, courtesy of traffic company ... read more »
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Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first-quarter results today after the markets closed. The company reported revenue of $7... read more »
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says he might get into the TV salvage business--footing all or part of the bill for a show that the networks want to canc... read more »
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Barry McCarthy, Netflix's chief financial officer and one of the linchpins of the company's management team, has stepped down. Barry McCarthy, Net... read more »
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Few companies have changed the e-commerce world in the recent past as much as Groupon, a local-deals broker that has gotten the nation hooked on ha... read more »
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Microsoft--furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook--has been considering a wide range of options, including lega... read more »
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They placed him alongside Nicolas Cage. They lined him up shoulder-to-shoulder with Russell Brand. With a callous twitch of their eyelinered faces, t... read more »
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There are lessons for digital music in the tale of &34'The Music Man.&34' (Credit: Warner Bros. ) commentary If you want to get a sense of both ... read more »
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Today, BoomTown interviewed AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, along with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, at the Online News Association Conference in Washington, D... read more »
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Regulators and industry watchdog groups repeatedly warned Google that it was taking ads from rogue online pharmacies in violation of federal law, acc... read more »
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After posting another sizzling quarter, Netflix seems poised for continued growth. But one analyst believes the company should watch out for the c... read more »
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These days, if you're really interested in winning, you have to rule the Web. This is something that Charlie Sheen, the rather visible star of the CB... read more »
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Will.i.am (Credit: MySpace) Cell phones were created so that we, the human race, could do many things at once. Thinking, writing, and eating, for ... read more »
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In a blog post last week, Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team, wrote about the progress the team has made in reducing the amount of spam in se... read more »
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Online spending on Black Friday increased nearly 16 percent compared with last year, with social networking sites gaining momentum as a source for s... read more »
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Hey, if you dump your boyfriend, you'll be happier. How do I know Because you could be with me. How do you know you could be with me Because I'm in ... read more »
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The note that greeted visitors to Netflix.com tonight. (Credit: Screen shot by Steven Musil/CNET) Netflix suffered an outage for at least two ... read more »
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