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Netflix's Profits Are Gone

Ryan Tate · 11/22/11 02:17PM

This has been the year of Reed Hastings' fall, and it gets more dramatic by the month. The Netflix CEO just revealed his movie streaming company won't post a quarterly profit in all of 2012. His gruesome horror epic continues, grab the popcorn!

Wimps Infest Tech

Ryan Tate · 11/14/11 08:45PM

The internet has enabled instant feedback from millions of consumers, but that doesn't mean you always have to listen to them. Online discounter Overstock.com became O.co six months ago but announced today it is switching back. Enough flip flopping. Grow a spine, tech companies.

Netflix Is In Free Fall

Ryan Tate · 10/25/11 02:59PM

Netflix shares are down about 35 percent today after the online movie company warned of subscriber defections and mounting costs. This is getting sad.

Stop Whining About the New Netflix 'Crackdown'

Ryan Tate · 09/07/11 11:16AM

Still reeling from a debilitating $6 per month price increase, Netflix customers have a new policy to get all bitchy about: The video service now limits how many steams you can watch at once. Cue the entitlement!

Cornell Nerd: Internet Bandwidth Limit Ruins My Social Life

Maureen O'Connor · 08/17/11 03:11PM

Rising Cornell sophomore Cristina Lara wants her school to abolish its 50GB/month student bandwidth limit. (To use more, students have to pay.) "Internet usage is free in virtually every college and university in the country," Cristina writes in a petition, "and it's also free among all 7 other institutions in the Ivy League." Sounds reasonable.

Furious Customers Overwhelm Netflix

Ryan Tate · 07/14/11 02:50PM

Netflix's phone lines are overloaded, its blog comments maxed out and its hate mail has become a trending topic on Twitter. All because of a $6 price hike.

Netflix Prices Skyrocket

Ryan Tate · 07/12/11 03:16PM

Your new boyfriend Netflix just became more like your ex, the evil cable company, jacking up rates 60 percent on one popular plan and spinning it as a big boon to consumers. He's just daring you to dump him.

Netflix Might Be Killing Movie Piracy

Ryan Tate · 04/28/11 02:39PM

The file sharing obsessives at TorrentFreak.com are convinced that Netflix is helping Americans become conscientious citizens who pay for movies rather than illegally downloading them free off BitTorrent. We are truly becoming moral titans.

Channing Tatum Will Never Grow Up

Richard Lawson · 03/02/11 05:13PM

Not if he gets his way in his next movie he won't. Also today: pilot casting including roles for an old WB favorite and a new CW regular, Tom Hanks and Tim Allen hop aboard the lucrative theme park ride adaptation movie racket, and Christina Aguilera gets her sentence.

Netflix Sunday Matinee: The Human Centipede

Kate Castellana · 12/05/10 01:30PM

As if it wasn't cold enough outside already, this movie will really give you the chills! Two American tourists get lost in Germany during a road-trip and come across a deranged surgeon who is determined to create the "human centipede."

Netflix Sunday Matinee: Desert Hearts

Kate Castellana · 11/07/10 01:30PM

Desert Hearts is not your run of the mill Gay Western. It takes place in 1959 and after twelve years of marriage Vivian Bell has come to Reno to claim residency in order to get a divorce.

Netflix Sunday Matinee: Troll 2

Kate Castellana · 10/31/10 12:30PM

Halloween is here! Can you taste it? Does it taste like poisoned Goblin food? Considering that this week's Sunday Matinee is Troll 2, a film believed to be one of the worst/best movies of all time, I sure hope not!

Netflix Sunday Matinee: The Land Before Time

Kate Castellana · 10/17/10 12:30PM

The weather forecast says that this Sunday is going to be overcast so why not just stay in with Gawker.TV and watch your childhood favorite that spawned twelve sequels!? Eat your heart out Rocky.