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<title><![CDATA[S&038'P 500 index welcomes Netflix, boots the New York Times]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Out with the old, in with the new.Netflix, a subscription service for mail-order and streaming movies, has joined some of the largest and most prominent companies in the world on the Standard &amp;amp' Poor&amp;'s 500 stock market index, kicking out the New York Times in the process.It&amp;'s a pretty big milestone for the company, which has been considered a mid-cap stock (meaning it isn&amp;'t all that big) since it went public back in 2002. The company is now worth $10.2 billion, compared to the New York Times&amp;' paltry $1.4 billion.Netflix has seen some pretty explosive growth in recent years as it shifted toward streaming content online. Like its competitor Hulu, Netflix streams movies and TV shows for a monthly fee on its site. But the company is paying out enormous sums of cash to get access to the best content as quickly as possible. Netflix paid out $115 million this quarter, which was more than 10 times greater than the $10 million it paid in the same quarter last year.The results are pretty stellar. The companya4a4s quarterly profit jumped by about 27 percent year-over-year last quarter. Netflixa4a4s net income jumped to about $38 million this quarter, compared to $30 million in the same quarter last year, after adding another million subscribers in the last quarter. That brings Netflixa4a4s total subscribers to somewhere between 19 million and 19.7 million, according to its most recent earnings report.It&amp;'s also a pretty telling sign of the direction of media, as well. The New York Times is still seen as a champion of old media, with one of the largest newspaper subscription circulations in the country. But advertising revenue has dried up for old media companies since advertisers have flocked to cheaper and more pervasive online media sources. The New York Times&amp;' stock price has been on a steady decline for the past three years as well, falling from around $26 to $9.39 today. Office Depot and Kodak were also booted to mid-cap status as part of the announcement.But oftentimes companies are promoted to large-cap status due to run-ups in stock value rather than personal success. It makes sense, seeing as Netflix&amp;'s shares are up a mind-blowing 241 percent from a year ago (they were up 1.3 percent today) when they were worth $56.74. It means there&amp;'s either a tremendous vote of confidence for the company, or the stock is highly overvalued. Given the state of the stock market today, it wouldn&amp;'t be surprising to see the company&amp;'s shares take a nose dive as traders cut a nice profit from the recent run-up.Next Story: Microsoft to appease developers with major Windows Phone 7 update in February Previous Story: Justin.tv claims &amp;''frame reinsertion&amp;'' will cross the quality gap in mobile live video streamingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: stock market, stocks, valuation, video streamingCompanies: Netflix, New York Times          Tags: stock market, stocks, valuation, video streamingCompanies: Netflix, New York TimesMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Superfish says &''virtual window shopping&'' will tempt consumers more this Christmas]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This holiday season shoppers will most likely be more tempted to buy a product online based more on what it looks like on their computer screens, than what a link or word search of the same item might show, according to data by the visual product search companySuperfish.In an interview with VentureBeat, Superfish said that electronics was the number one category where people used visual search, with apparel the next most popular category.Consumers are also exhibiting extremely high clickthrough rates (the amount of users who click on an item, divided by the amount of times the item appears) within the home and garden category, with furniture and lighting seeing almost 20 percent clickthroughs as buyers begin selecting products based on what images they like best.&amp;''In a typical comparison shopping situation, people find a product theya4a4re interested in and then try to compare prices on that product across different stores. They would usually use the producta4a4s model number or some keyword description as the basis for comparison,&amp;'' said Joe Dew, head of product for Superfish, told VentureBeat.&amp;''But what we discovered was that 30-40 percent of our merchant clicks were for visually similar products. These are products with different names and model numbers and from different merchants but share a common visual shape or characteristic,&amp;'' said Dew. &amp;''We believe this behavior suggests that the ability for consumers to easily find visually similar products across many stores will become an important discovery tool for shoppers.&amp;''The San Mateo, Calif., company was instealth research mode for several years before rolling out its first prototype,Window Shopper, in April. The Firefox and Internet Explorer browser add-on allows users to search for images instead of text to find a broad range of similar products across thousands of sites simultaneously.At this time, the company doesna4a4t offer add-ons for other browsers like Google Chrome or Safari.The Superfish platform analyzes any image as a search query, converts that image and returns identical or similar matches to the query from an index of over 110 million products within seconds.Superfish visual search technology is also served on a scalable platform designed to be easily accessible to third party developers.The company received $4 million in third round funding in November, an infusion it says it will use to muscle up its market position and focus on developing its a4Avisual DNAa4 search technology.Since its launch last spring, Window Shopper has grown to over 1 million active users and continues to expand across all sectors as it competes with other similar visual shopping sites likeSpezify.com and Google acquisition Like.com.Previous Story: Chip industry outlook surprisingly bullish after a boom year in 2010PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: ecommerce, online shopping, Social Media, social networking, virtual window shoppingCompanies: Amazon, Best Buy, eBay, Macya4a4s, spezify.com, Superfish, Target, WalmartPeople: joe dew          Tags: ecommerce, online shopping, Social Media, social networking, virtual window shoppingCompanies: Amazon, Best Buy, eBay, Macya4a4s, spezify.com, Superfish, Target, WalmartPeople: joe dewRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook hires game executive to direct partnerships]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Game entrepreneur Sean Ryan has been hired as director of game partnerships at Facebook.The hire is a recognition that Facebook needs to focus more attention on social games, which are the biggest application on the social network, and on the third-party game publishers who make them. The hiring is an indication that Facebook knows that games, which are played by at least half of its 500 million users, are critical to its success. AllThingsD reported on Ryan&amp;'s hiring and Facebook has now confirmed it.Ryan is the former chief executive of teen-focused game world Meez as well as Listen.com. Most recently, he had taken a job at News Corp. to set up a new online gaming division. At Facebook, his job won&amp;'t be to create games, since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the company will not create its own content. Rather, Ryan will manage partnerships with companies such as Zynga, whose CityVille game is the No. 1 app.At times, the relationship with Zynga has been tense. Zynga started a major diversification effort in the spring after Facebook shut down viral communications from games that had non-gamers upset. As happens on other technology platforms, the interests of the platform owner are not always aligned with its most important developers.Previously, program manager Gareth Davis oversaw games. But Facebook has built a development team around building new game-focused features into the platform. Back in September, Facebook unveiled the team &amp;8212' led by programmer Jared Morgenstern &amp;8212' when it announced some changes that would make games on Facebook better. Facebook has also hired Linden Lab co-founder Cory Ondrejka and Walletin executive Bruce Rogers.At the time of the changes in September, Zuckerberg said he had to walk a tightrope between catering to gamers and making sure that game communications didn&amp;'t turn off non-gamers on the social network. But even with that added attention, some game company executives have privately wondered whether Facebook will take games seriously enough.AllThingsD reported that News Corp.&amp;'s online game efforts will be taken over by John Welch, who joined the media giant after Ryan acquired his casual game company Making Fun. News Corp. has also acquired social game developer Irata Labs.The Facebook position had been open since August, when we reported on the search. Now is a good time for Ryan to arrive, since game developers are presumably happy again. Zynga&amp;'s CityVille game has seen enormous growth in the past month, growing to 84.2 million monthly active users as Facebook&amp;'s messaging system has again helped draw attention to games.Next Story: Online game service OnLive hires a chief operating officer from Pandora Previous Story: Ford Sync car tech now in 3 million vehiclesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CityVille, social gamesCompanies: Facebook, News Corp, ZyngaPeople: Sean Ryan          Tags: CityVille, social gamesCompanies: Facebook, News Corp, ZyngaPeople: Sean RyanDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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