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Sorry, HBO isn’t planning on working with Netflix any time soon

Sorry, HBO isn’t planning on working with Netflix any time soon

Netflix said it would be open to working with HBO — possibly to stream HBO programming like it once did with two other cable networks, Showtime and Starz — but HBO has already publicly rejected that possibility. The streaming video site’s CEO recently announced the company’s second quarter financial numbers, and wrote in his letter to investors that he was [...]

Netflix logged more viewing hours in June more than any cable network

Netflix logged more viewing hours in June more than any cable network

Netflix subscribers watched more than one billion hours of streaming video through the service in the month of June. Crunch the numbers and you’ll find that’s more than any individual cable TV network or channel reaches. The one billion number was posted in a public Facebook status update by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings earlier today. The status update was written [...]

Hulu improves Spotify-esque Facebook sharing, but it might be illegal

Hulu improves Spotify-esque Facebook sharing, but it might be illegal

Music apps like Spotify and Rdio have been sharing your updates to Facebook ever since Facebook added the live ticker, but until recently most video sites hadn’t joined the fray. Hulu just broke new ground by offering a new social on/off button to its interface. The button toggles a feature that shares your Hulu video viewing activity to Facebook and to other [...]