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Miramar Inks Deal With Netflix

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Miramax and DVD rental and streaming firm Netflix announced this morning that the two have inked a streaming deal, covering the United Kingdom and Ireland. According to the two, the multi-year, digital licensing covers Miramax films, and will allow Netflix members in the UK and Ireland to stream titles starting in early 2012.

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Netflix, NBC Universal Ink Streaming Deal

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Beverly Hills-based NBC Universal Domestic Television DIstribution and DVD rental provider Netflix said Friday that they have expanded a license agreement covering streaming of NBC TV shows. According to the two, the deal allows Netflix customers to view prior season cable and broadcast TV series.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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It's worth mentioning that the largest and most complex pieces of technology ever created has proven itself useful in 2012--the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. Aside from the theoretical stuff, 2012 has been a year of disruption in many areas of technology. Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them.

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Nearly Half of U.S. Households Have TVs Connected To Internet, Says Report

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househousehold now have their televisions connected to the Internet, and nearly that many have a subscription to Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu Plus, according to a report issued Friday. That''s up from only 38% in 2012. hulu television internet streaming netflix' Nearly half of all U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged. We afford this pathway between the studio in LA and the studio in Bangalore. We open these doorways.”

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Activision Fires CFO

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No details of exactly what triggered the termination were announced, however, reports say that Neumann may have been hired away by Netflix. Durkin had been CFO of the company from March 2012 until May of 2017. According to Activision, the move is "unrelated to the Company's financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures. "

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Sony Pictures Ties With Amazon's LOVEFiLM

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According to the two companies, the deal provides exclusive streaming access to new and forthcoming Sony Pictures titles, as well as to catalog titles and TV Series, beginning in June of 2012. Amazon's LOVEFiLM provides DVD rentals, game rentals, and online streaming in Europe, in a model similar to Netflix in the U.S.