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Netflix Facing Increased Competition From Comcast, Verizon As Streaming Library Dwindles

February 25, 2012Erik Kain

and Starz failed to reach a licensing agreement last year and customers are about to pay the price. A hefty number of titles will go missing at the end of February, thinning out ‘s already slim-pickings. Gabe Gagliano has put together an extensive list of the titles about to go AWOL from your instant queue. […]

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How Amazon Can Beat Apple At Its Own Game

February 16, 2012Erik Kain

~Guest post by Aziz Poonawalla In Q4 2011, ‘s revenue was a jaw-dropping $43.6 billion, with profit of $13.1 billion and cash reserves of almost $100 billion. There are a lot of ways to put these numbers in context, but I think this single chart really captures the essence of what has achieved: Here Comes The Kindle Fire Meanwhile, consider […]

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Amazon’s Viacom Deal Puts Pressure On Netflix

February 8, 2012Erik Kain

Amazon and have reached a deal to add shows from the cable company’s various channels such as MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon, to Amazon’s Prime instant video service. “Prime Instant Video now offers thousands of TV episodes from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo-including past seasons of popular shows […]

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Is Amazon the Next Apple?

December 26, 2011Erik Kain

With the passing of , business leaders, entrepreneurs, and the people who write about them are all looking to lay the tech-visionary mantle at someone else’s feet. Amazon’s recent series of home-runs has led many to speculate that the online retailer’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, may be just the man for the job. Amazon, of course, […]

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Watching ‘The Wonder Years’ on Amazon

October 6, 2011Erik Kain

I have a confession to make: I never watched The Wonder Years as a kid. This is weird because it began airing in 1988 when I was seven years old. Oh, I’d catch an episode here and there, and I watched The Princess Bride which had Fred Savage basically playing the same kid, but I […]

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The Kindle Fire is a Direct Challenge to the Apple Empire

September 28, 2011Erik Kain

Amazon’s release of a cheap, $79 Kindle, a $99 Kindle Reader, and a $199 full-color tablet – the Kindle Fire – is nothing short of an all out assault on Apple. Top this off with Amazon’s cloud storage, the ridiculously cheap Amazon Prime service ($79/year gets you cloud storage, free 2-day shipping, and a bunch […]

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