As you know, content comes and goes on Netflix. Each week, we’re bringing you a list of titles that you’ll be able to stream in the U.S. in the coming days.
The Comcast-Time Warner merger is underway, and it's one of the biggest media deals in recent memory: $45.2 billion for the distressed cable conglomerate at a dramatic moment when it looked like John Malone's Liberty Media and rival cable outfit Charter were going to lay siege to the place until TWC capitulated. Now, though, Comcast has officially had its bid for Time Warner accepted and is on its way to becoming the proud owner of an unprecedented share of the market. Here are a few things that it will do: 1.
Fans of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye (and the subsequent N64 game) no doubt know the Arecibo Observatory as the “cradle.”
The famous movie set is actually a 1,000-ft. radio telescope, the largest single-aperture telescope in world. The giant platform is suspended hundreds of feet above the dish by 18 cables, which are attached to three concrete towers.
Well, one of those cables was recently damaged.
Most of us are battling the insanity that Mother Nature is throwing our way right now, which takes a toll on the old brain after a while. The tension of driving on snow-slicked roads, the worries an ice storm can bring, dealing with no power, and cabin fever can all make us go a little mad in winter. That’s not even to mention how crazy people can get at the grocery store while stocking up on the necessities before a big storm.
The U.S. Department of Justice today announced that Bridgestone Corp has agreed to plead guilty to charges related to automotive industry price fixing. The company will pay a $425 million fine for colluding to artificially raise prices on certain rubber vehicle parts.
Alex Shvartsman runs a small store called Kings Games in Brooklyn as well as its e-commerce counterpart. He’s been a longtime Square Reader user, and was an early adopter of Square Market, the company’s online storefront for small businesses.
They came up together, in a farm system bounty for the ages: Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte. Together, they won four World Series Rings. Then Pettitte left for his hometown Houston Astros in 2004 and Williams retired in 2006. It was the end of an era.
But the story wasn’t over, a new chapter was just beginning. Pettitte returned to the pinstripes in 2007 and was part of a three-man rotation that helped to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in 2009 to capture a fifth World Series ring.
Ashley Madison, the online dating site for married people with the slogan “life’s short, have an affair,” has put up a rather interesting billboard in Little Rock, Arkansas.
I should say a rather interesting and rather appropriate billboard for Little Rock, Arkansas, home of our nation’s 42nd President.
“Who said cheaters never prosper. Happy Presidents Day!” reads the billboard, which features images of Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Presidents Day is next Monday, February 17th.
Netflix, adding to its growing role in kids' online videos, has obtained exclusive streaming rights to the new, final season of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," an animated TV series based on George Lucas's "Star Wars" movies from Walt Disney Co.U.S. and Canadian subscribers will be able to view the 13-episode sixth season of "Star Wars: the Clone Wars" beginning March 7, Netflix said today.
Angry Birds is getting ready to introduce in-game digital video ads in an expansion of its advertising products that the company will unveil soon, according to Michele Tobin, Rovio’s head of advertising. Tobin told Adweek today that the company’s games provide premium inventory for video advertising from brands. “We’re rolling out new video products in Q2 that will be built into the gameplay of a number of games,” Tobin said.