Netflix doubles CEO Hastings' pay

The video rental company will give Hastings a salary of $2 million and stock options worth $2 million, according to a regulatory filing.

For some on Christmas Eve, “White Christmas” was a blackout on Netflix. That's because problems with Amazon's cloud computing service, which provides storage and computing power for all kinds of Web sites and services, caused Netflix to go down for

Netflix has confirmed to Talking Points Memo that it will introduce social sharing features for U.S. users in 2013, following the passage of a bill that will..

I predict that DIRECTV will buy Netflix. Considering that Netflix next year will face even tougher competition from such heavyweights as Amazon, Intel, Redbox/Verizon, Walmart's Vudu and Hulu, the company could use a lifeline, perhaps before it's

Netflix has been lobbying to change a law that prevents it from using Facebook to reveal what movies people are watching. It has finally won in Congress but, by this point, doubts about the value of frictionless sharing mean

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Netflix Gives Reed Hastings Huge Raise: Why?

Movie streaming company gives its chief a hefty raise for 2013, a year after reducing his compensation in the wake of a botched plan to split the company. Read this article by Steven Musil on CNET News.

Netflix has confirmed to Talking Points Memo that it will introduce social sharing features for U.S. users in 2013, following the passage of a bill that will..

Netflix Amendment passed Thanks to recently passed 'Netflix Amendment', part of Barack Obama's Video Protection Act, your mother can finally share her old Lauren Bacall flicks with you. Indeed, it seems arbitrary to announce now that video sharing went

After the bell on Friday, Netflix (NFLX) announced that it was giving CEO Reed Hastings a huge raise. Mr. Hastings will get a $2 million salary along with $2 million of compensation through stock options, the ultimate value of which depends on how

Netflix has doubled the compensation package CEO Reed Hastings will receive in 2013 over the current year, the streaming and video rental company revealed today in a regulatory filing. Hastings will receive $2 million in salary and another $2 million

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Netflix CEO gets pay increase for 2013

(CNN) -- Aah, Christmas Eve. A time for family and friends, eggnog and mistletoe, carols and cookies and catching up on "Downton Abbey"? Apparently, that's what legions of us had in mind when -- humbug! -- the Netflix Instant streaming service went

Netflix has confirmed to Talking Points Memo that it will introduce social sharing features for U.S. users in 2013, following the passage of a bill that will..

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) CEO Reed Hastings will see a sizable increase in compensation in the new year, according to an SEC filing the company made on Friday. Hastings will receive $2 million in pay for the year, a fourfold increase from the $500,000 he

It's easy to have the best intentions with Netflix. You fill your instant queue up with gritty documentaries and high brow Oscar winners like the King's Speech. Maybe you even add a few of those French Cerebral Thrillers with a

Congress just passed a bill that lets you share your Michael Bay movie marathon with everyone on Facebook. What you still can't do: send an email without worrying that Big Brother is watching.

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' Salary Will Double In 2013

A new approach to networking could make video delivery faster and more reliable.

A new approach to networking could make video delivery faster and more reliable.

Netflix has confirmed to Talking Points Memo that it will introduce social sharing features for U.S. users in 2013, following the passage of a bill that will..

Netflix Inc. raised Chief Executive Reed Hastings's compensation package to $4 million for 2013, essentially doubling his pay this year.

Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are only weeks away from launching the beta to Redbox Instant, their long-awaited venture into the world of video streaming. The service is already featured as a downloadable app from both Google Play

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' Salary Will Double In 2013

Netflix has been lobbying to change a law that prevents it from using Facebook to reveal what movies people are watching. It has finally won in Congress but, by this point, doubts about the value of frictionless sharing mean

He chose his salary to be $2 million, up from $500,000, and his stock options allowance to be $2 million, the online streaming company said in a regulatory filing Friday. Last year, he got stock options worth $1.5 million, half of what he had received

A new approach to networking could make video delivery faster and more reliable.

He's getting $4 million, up from $2 million this year.

A new approach to networking could make video delivery faster and more reliable.

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Netflix doubles down on CEO Reed Hastings' pay package

Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are only weeks away from launching the beta to Redbox Instant, their long-awaited venture into the world of video streaming. The service is already featured as a downloadable app from both Google Play

Netflix has risen 29 percent in 2012, with one trading day left in the year. The shares peaked at $298.73 in July 2011 before sliding on investor concern over looming competition, a series of marketing missteps, losses overseas and fewer than expected

(CNN) -- Aah, Christmas Eve. A time for family and friends, eggnog and mistletoe, carols and cookies and catching up on "Downton Abbey"? Apparently, that's what legions of us had in mind when -- humbug! -- the Netflix Instant streaming service went

Netflix has doubled the compensation package CEO Reed Hastings will receive in 2013 over the current year, the streaming and video rental company revealed today in a regulatory filing. Hastings will receive $2 million in salary and another $2 million

Netflix will introduce 'social features' for its U.S. users in 2013, following a bill passed by Congress on December 21 that removes older restrictions on companies sharing customer video rental histories. That bill was passed

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Netflix doubles down on CEO Reed Hastings' pay package

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) CEO Reed Hastings will see a sizable increase in compensation in the new year, according to an SEC filing the company made on Friday. Hastings will receive $2 million in pay for the year, a fourfold increase from the $500,000 he

(CNN) -- Aah, Christmas Eve. A time for family and friends, eggnog and mistletoe, carols and cookies and catching up on "Downton Abbey"? Apparently, that's what legions of us had in mind when -- humbug! -- the Netflix Instant streaming service went

Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are only weeks away from launching the beta to Redbox Instant, their long-awaited venture into the world of video streaming. The service is already featured as a downloadable app from both Google Play

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even those in the lighthearted holiday fare you were plann..

Netflix has doubled the compensation package CEO Reed Hastings will receive in 2013 over the current year, the streaming and video rental company revealed today in a regulatory filing. Hastings will receive $2 million in salary and another $2 million

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Netflix doubles down on CEO Reed Hastings' pay package

Christmas Eve — what a lovely time for this Netflix watcher to be tuned away from Kansas City. I, and surely many other regular Internet TV watchers, were able to avoid what could have been a devastating black-out during the online video streaming

Christmas Eve — what a lovely time for this Netflix watcher to be tuned away from Kansas City. I, and surely many other regular Internet TV watchers, were able to avoid what could have been a devastating black-out during the online video streaming

Netflix has been lobbying to change a law that prevents it from using Facebook to reveal what movies people are watching. It has finally won in Congress but, by this point, doubts about the value of frictionless sharing mean

At issue was the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), which banned the sharing of a person's video rental history without written consent. Once the President signs off on a new bill that has surged through the chambers of Congress, Netflix users will

Netflix Inc. raised Chief Executive Reed Hastings's compensation package to $4 million for 2013, essentially doubling his pay this year.

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Netflix to Boost CEO Reed Hastings's Pay in 2013

Netflix has spent over a million dollars on lobbying in Washington, DC, some of which went to pushing through legislation that will allow its users to share their video watching habits on Facebook, according to a report from The Next Web. Though its

Christmas Eve — what a lovely time for this Netflix watcher to be tuned away from Kansas City. I, and surely many other regular Internet TV watchers, were able to avoid what could have been a devastating black-out during the online video streaming

A new approach to networking could make video delivery faster and more reliable.

Netflix has been lobbying to change a law that prevents it from using Facebook to reveal what movies people are watching. It has finally won in Congress but, by this point, doubts about the value of frictionless sharing mean

Christmas Eve — what a lovely time for this Netflix watcher to be tuned away from Kansas City. I, and surely many other regular Internet TV watchers, were able to avoid what could have been a devastating black-out during the online video streaming

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The Netflix lobby in Washington spent $1 million in two years

Netflix customers hoping to stream a movie with their family this Christmas may have had to turn to watching the Yule Log channel instead, courtesy of a widespread Netflix outage that the company is blaming on its cloud computing service provider

Netflix customers hoping to stream a movie with their family this Christmas may have had to turn to watching the Yule Log channel instead, courtesy of a widespread Netflix outage that the company is blaming on its cloud computing service provider

When the streaming-video site Netflix suffered an outage on Christmas Eve, millions of Americans confronted the terrifying possibility of an evening of spent talking with their relatives instead of re-watching Die Hard.

You can already use Netflix to watch movies at the same time as friends and family in other locations, if you're using it from a platform such as the Xbox 360, but new social features are allegedly on the way in 2013. The company was mum on the update

Amour: Amour is as hard and bright as bone. The love it observes is intense, selfish, and nearly insane (these are the film's greatest truths). – David Thomson, watch trailer · The Deep Blue Sea: [Terence] Davies, who is now sixty-six and has made only

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Netflix Amazon Outage Shows 'Any Company Can Fail'

An outage Tuesday at Amazon Web Services, which sells computing and data storage services to businesses including Netflix , should cause CIOs to look into new options to prevent mission critical functions running on public clouds from going dark, says

When the streaming-video site Netflix suffered an outage on Christmas Eve, millions of Americans confronted the terrifying possibility of an evening of spent talking with their relatives instead of re-watching Die Hard.

These days you can connect just about anything you do on the Internet to various social networks, namely Facebook, but until just recently Netflix was left out of that oversharing club. Starting in 2013, however, Netflix is

Netflix will introduce “social features” for U.S. users in 2013, the company told TPM Wednesday, following a bill passed by Congress just before the holiday break that removes previous restrictions that prevented companies from sharing customer video

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even those in the lighthearted holiday fare you were plann..

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Netflix has a Bone to Pick with Amazon

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When an unexpected outage took down Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) for an undetermined number of users on Christmas Eve, Netflix subscribers were left without a streaming video option. Some likely wondered if they were smart to cut the cord. (With instant

Netflix Inc. said its streaming video service was hit by an outage as a result of problems at Web service provider Amazon.com Inc.

Netflix is down due to an outage in Amazon's AWS infrastructure, but only on some devices.

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Netflix blames Amazon for Christmas Eve outage

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) said Tuesday it had fully restored its video-streaming service after a Christmas Eve outage that hit many of its customers in the Americas. The outage -- which Netflix said was due to a technical

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — If you're a Netflix subscriber who planned to watch some movies on Christmas Eve or as you opened presents this morning, there was no Elf or National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for you. The online service suffered an outage

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even those in the lighthearted holiday fare you were plann..

Has an evening with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation become an annual holiday tradition? Or perhaps you enjoy a pre-present thrill, courtesy of Tim.

Has an evening with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation become an annual holiday tradition? Or perhaps you enjoy a pre-present thrill, courtesy of Tim.

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Netflix outage mars Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve movie streaming was a little bumpy for some Netflix customers, thanks to an outage at Amazon's North Virginia data centers. The problems started at about 12:30 p.m. Pacific, and it didn't take long for customers to start reporting

Netflix is down due to an outage in Amazon's AWS infrastructure, but only on some devices. That's quite a bummer for Netflix users, especially on Christmas Eve, but the company has acknowledged the problem and is working on a fix. We're sorry for the

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even those in the lighthearted holiday fare you were plann..

Big problems with Amazon Web Services' Elastic Load Balancing service in its US-East data center nailed Netflix and Heroku on Christmas Eve and carried over into Christmas. Netflix competitor Amazon Prime Instant Video

Netflix is down due to an outage in Amazon's AWS infrastructure, but only on some devices. That's quite a bummer for Netflix users, especially on Christmas Eve, but the company has acknowledged the problem and is working on a fix. We're sorry for the

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