Netflix Sharing On Facebook May Require An Act Of Congress

Popular video streaming service Netflix launched a Facebook application last year that would make recommendations for its users based on the movie viewing habits of their social network, similar to apps that share books, news and music. The application however was not offered to Netflix’s US subscribers due to the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1998 which restricts movie rental stores from ...

World's Smallest, Most Affordable, Live-Broadcast POV Solution Launches at CES

LAS VEGAS, NV-- - -- Contour , a leader in making it easy to share epic moments with hands-free video, and Japanese-based Cerevo today unveiled the world's smallest and least expensive portable live-streaming ...

Netflix beat the Street, but Amazon's gunning for a fight with stand-alone streaming service

Netflix just can’t catch a break. Despite its series of damaging PR blunders, the beleaguered video-streaming and DVD rental company announced its fourth quarter 2011 earnings report (pdf) today, which shows that Netflix managed to beat market expectations, with earnings of $0.73 a share, and revenue of $876 million. Market analysts expected about $0.53 a share, and revenue of around $857 ...

Lawmakers question proposed change to video privacy law

Let's say you like to watch heady documentaries over Netflix's streaming service and would like to share recommendations with your friends on Facebook. Netflix would like to offer that service, but the company says a 24-year-old U.S. law is in the way.

Netflix Streaming Rebounds In Q4, DVD Service Drops 2.8M Subs

After a customer backlash that caught it off guard, Netflix fared better than it expected on the Internet video front in the fourth quarter of 2011, adding 220,000 U.S. streaming-only subscribers -- while it shed 2.76 million DVD-by-mail customers in the period.