A new fashion-rental service has been getting buzz this week, but it follows other designer sites that have adopted the Netflix model to their ventures.
Rent the Runway, which started Monday, marks another entry into the growing market of online luxury rental services.
For many women, a $1,000 dress is something they admire in the pages of a glossy magazine or see draped on the frame of a celebrity–not an item hanging in their closet.
A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about.
This week: A video visit with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Chris Wetherell and his creation, Brizzly, a Web-based social media reader.
Some of the biggest companies backing the Blu-ray format for high-definition movies are hedging their bets by introducing players that can also show Internet video, which is making surprising inroads in the home-entertainment market.
In an interview with John Byrne, BusinessWeek.com’s executive editor/editor-in-chief, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings conceded that his business faces similar troubles to what magazines are up against, as the use of broadband video is set to rise.
Today brings news relating to one of the central examples in my paper: Netflix has announced plans to commit a privacy blunder that could cost it millions of dollars in fines and civil damages
It had taken the better part of a decade, but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry.
The battle for control of the DVD rental market is heating up, and taking a toll on all of the key players–retail store leader Blockbuster, DVD-by-mail player Netflix and $1-a-day kiosk operator Redbox, a unit of Coinstar.
The Netflix warehouse in Carol Stream does not appear on any map. Your odds of finding it are slightly better than your odds of stumbling upon a rare insect in a field of weeds. One could drive to Carol Stream, stop in a random office park, climb from one’s car and scream, “Reveal thyself, Netflix!” This is not advisable. But the temptation remains.
Like many teenagers, Josh Wilson, the 13-year-old son of the New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson, has on occasion visited the Internet’s peer-to-peer file-sharing services to download music and television shows.
The takeover-rumor driven rally in Netflix shares has continued today, as investors debate the potential for an acquisition of the company by Amazon–or Microsoft.
Netflix shares are getting a boost today from vague takeover rumors.
TheFlyOnTheWall.com notes that the move in the stock today appears due to “renewed takeover speculation.”
I’m imagining a world where each of us, and all groups, networks, enterprises, institutions, agencies and NGOs, have dashboards which are associated with our online presence. Some of these dashboards exist today in the guise of “NetVibes” start-up pages or as iGoogle and My Yahoo pages.
Netflix is suddenly one of Silicon Valley’s hottest companies–it just reported blowout Q4 earnings, gave a strong Q1 outlook, and its stock has doubled since November. And the company’s service is becoming ubiquitous in the home entertainment space. So why did Stifel Nicolaus analyst Scott Devitt downgrade the stock this morning from Hold to Sell, estimating its fair value to be well below its current level of $35.95?
The genesis of Netflix came in 1997 when I got this late fee, about $40, for “Apollo 13.” I remember the fee because I was embarrassed about it. That was back in the VHS days, and it got me thinking that there’s a big market out there. So I started to investigate the idea of how to create a movie-rental business by mail.
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