Category: Business news
Occupy Netflix
| October 12, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Business news, Internet culture, Politics |
At first glance, two of today’s biggest ongoing news stories seem to have nothing in common. On the one hand there’s the Occupy Wall Street movement, a growing series of protests aimed at calling attention to social and economic inequality, among other issues. On the other hand, there’s Netflix, a video-streaming and rental company whose recent series of announcements has attracted widespread criticism…
Steve Jobs: Here’s to the crazy ones
| October 6, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Business news |
Yesterday, the world lost one of its great innovators as Steve Jobs succumbed to the cancer he had been battling for six years. The world mourned today and the internet paid tribute, with Apple itself posting a full-page photo and dedication to the man who made the company what it is today. President Obama may have summed it up best: “Steve was among…
Life-changing (Apple) events
| October 5, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Business news |
The internet went quiet for several hours yesterday as normally prolific bloggers and tweeters hunched over to view an event that’s as anticipated in the tech world as the Super Bowl is in the sports world: an Apple press conference. Dozens of live blogs carried a play-by-play announcement of Apple’s newest technology release as their website went down from high demand and thousands…
Netflix doesn’t get the feedback loop
| September 19, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Business news |
“I messed up. I owe you an explanation.” So begins last night’s blog post from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, attempting to explain why the recently announced 60% price hike is necessary after all – and by recently, I mean it was announced two months ago. It has taken two full months of vitriolic user feedback for the CEO to acknowledge their own PR…
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