Don’t expect to get your monthly Netflix fix from a BlackBerry device anytime soon. After months and months of waiting, repeated emails and constant tweets, Netflix responded today saying that they “currently don’t have any plans to release/support the BlackBerry platform, including the PlayBook”. While it could be a matter of not enough people to support BlackBerry and QNX on top of the other platforms, it’s more than likely Netflix...
Qwikster is dead. Netflix’s DVD-only, revamped mail-in option for movie rentals didn’t even get a proper launch and the company is already throwing in the towel. The botched Qwikster launch is more bad news piled on top an already negative image originally brought on by Netflix raising prices for DVD and streaming options many weeks back. With that said, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings reiterated that while the company saw the spit of streaming and DVD-only as...
Netflix has been facing a ton of criticism since raising prices several weeks back. While numbers are all over the place concerning just how many customers have jumped ship, and in turn how much money Netflix is now losing, the fact of the matter is that people aren’t happy. Solution: break it up! Netflix CEO Reed Hastings just announced Netflix is now streaming-only. The older DVD based subscription service has been spun off into its own brand/company and is now...
Social butterflies and Netflix junkies will soon be able to mash the two favorite past times together with the announcement that Netflix integration is coming to Facebook! The only catch — the U.S. will not be an initial launch country… Our friends up in Canada and down south in Latin America will be two of the first countries to gain the new, socially aware Netflix functionality. As for why the U.S. won’t partake of launch day festivities — we...
Rumor has it that Apple may be bidding on Hulu during the process of company’s sale. Hulu announced that Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners would assist in the sale of the company back in June – and with that, Apple may be toying with the idea of a bid. Both Amazon and Yahoo! are interested in the company, but it makes more sense for Apple to toss it’s hat into the ring. With iTunes only being a purchase/rent service for your TV and Movie needs –...
