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There's a great Netflix feature in Bloomberg Businessweek today , which details how the company delivers its enormous catalog to 36 million customers without a hitch. It's more than impressive math—it's almost a miracle. Read more...

Bloomberg Businessweek today ran a feature story on Netflix and its CEO Reed Hastings , providing perhaps the best look yet at the inner workings of the streaming service. Among the interesting tidbits, we now have a definitive number for just how large Netflix's content catalog is; the company's...

Known for bringing Android apps to Windows and the Mac , Bluestacks is following Ouya with the launch of its own independent Android console called GamePop . Positioning itself as a "Netflix for games" but with hardware, Bluestacks will provide Gamepop owners with unlimited access to Android titles...

Video streaming group YouTube is said to be preparing a Subscriber Channel service this week with aims at taking on the cable business with month-to-month costs and an ala carte option for users. This service would be served up by Google, owners of the video network, and would likely take payment...

Media companies have been in a constant battle with piracy for several years now with no end in site. However, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos thinks that the best way to fight piracy isn’t through legislation or trying to catch people and throw them in jail, but rather to offer legal...

There’s always money in the banana stand

There’s always money in the banana stand

The Chief Content Officer of streaming giant Netflix claims the modern trend for easily streaming legal content is impacting on the more hardcore Bittorrent scene, with pirate traffic dropping in countries when Netflix switches on its servers. According to Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, this is because...

Piracy apologists have said for a long time that media piracy will diminish when legal services are offer a superior experience at a reasonable price. And wouldn't you know it, Netflix agrees. Speaking with Stuff.tv , Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says that there is a correlation...

The Internet is all about being first. Who wants to be second ? You want to be the person who screams FIRST. You want to be the douche who calls something that popped up an hour ago OLD. You want to know immediately when the new episodes of Arrested Development will be uploaded to Netflix. Here's...