The two companies will combine to try to give customers more access to video on the Web, and possibly position the new venture as an alternative to Netflix.
?O Cowboy? (2010), by Beatriz Milhazes is among the works showing at this virtual exposition.Art Fair 2.0 takes a second stab at the virtual exhibition (and the Web site runs more smoothly this year).
Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.
The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.
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AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
AP - A new Internet streaming venture built around Redbox's DVD-rental kiosks adds to a crowded field of online video-viewing services dominated by Netflix.
AP - Coinstar's fourth-quarter earnings soared past analyst estimates as the company's Redbox kiosks for renting DVDs picked up customers who stopped getting their discs through Netflix's rival service.
Yahoo! News - The need is compelling: Over 1 billion people in the third world need corrective eyewear but lack access to testing and glasses. The solution is spectacularly innovative: A $2 scope attached to a smartphone tests for vision defects, and a new pair of ?
Yahoo! News - It's been a rough 12 months for movie rental giant Netflix. The company sharply increased rates from $8 to $15, irking customers, and announced plans to split into two confusing new entities, renaming its traditional DVD-by-mail service Qwikster. Netflix ultimately abandoned its Qwikster ?
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