The World’s Most Profitable Companies
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Online television | The Economist
One outfit is steadily gaining ground. Netflix, which rents DVDs through the post, has been amassing subscribers: 15m so far. It is gradually moving into online distribution, and is becoming popular on connected TVs. It will be built into the new Apple TV. Netflix has a pot of money to spend on rights, and wants to acquire some content exclusively. Although it stayed quiet this week, it is the company to watch—and, if you are a television or film executive, to worry about.
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Environmental Documentary 'Cool It' Will Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
Roadside Attractions said it had acquired Ondi Timoner’s documentary “Cool It,” about the Danish statistician and writer Bjorn Lomborg, for release in the United States, just before that film is to make its make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Advertisers Are Jumping Ship As Rupert Murdoch's Paywall Numbers Emerge
Faced with a collapse in traffic to thetimes.co.uk, some advertisers have simply abandoned the site. Rob Lynam, head of press trading at the media agency MEC, whose clients include Lloyds Banking Group, Orange, Morrisons and Chanel, says, "We are just not advertising on it. If there's no traffic on there, there's no point in advertising on there." Lynam says he has been told by News International insiders that traffic to The Times site has fallen by 90 per cent since the introduction of charges. "That was the same forecast they were giving us prior to registration and the paywall going up, so whether it's a reflection on reality or not, I don't know.
Sony's cloud-based music service
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"With Sony's Qriocity services, though, the music and video lives in the cloud, a dramatically different model."
"healthy cloud-computing job market"
Boto creator Mitch Garnaat, noted last week that there were 181 jobs listed for Amazon Web Services in the U.S. alone. Rob La Gesse countered that the second largest infrastructure as a service provider, Rackspace, had 175 jobs available in the States. Conversations with sources at Terremark, IBM, and others indicate that they are quickly expandng their cloud teams in response to increasing market demand.
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