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The Guy Behind The Qwikster Twitter Account Wants Lots of Cash
I want NEVER gets. Last night, Jason Castillo went to bed a normal man, with a normal Twitter account and a few dozen followers. This morning, Jason woke up to an inbox full of messages, thousands of new followers, and wants to sell his account for thousands of dollars. Well good luck on that one! As [...]
Netflix Offers Apology & Changes Services
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced a further split between the company’s DVD and streaming offerings with an apology. In an email to subscribers and a video, Hastings said the decade-old DVD-by-mail service would change its name to Qwikster and be operated as a separate business from the company’s movie-streaming business, which will retain the Netflix [...]
Netflix Customers Get Angry
Netflix‘s decision to raise prices by as much as 60 percent is turning into a bit of nightmare. The customer backlash against the higher rates will end September with 600,000 fewer U.S. customers than it had in June. It will mark just the second time in 12 years that Netflix has lost subscribers from one [...]
Michael J. Fox’s ‘Back to the Future’ Shoes Go up for Auction
Nike have made 1,500 pairs of Nike Air Mags, the futuristic shoes Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) wore in Back to the Future II. Buyers can head to eBay — where bidding as of Friday afternoon was well into the thousands — until Sept. 18, when the [...]
Eddie Murphy to Host Oscars
Eddie Murphy is set to step back into the spotlight in a big way: He’s agreed to take on hosting duties at the Oscars next February. The selection of Murphy, 50, is a departure from last year’s Academy Awards hosts – the unlikely duo of James Franco and Anne Hathaway. “Eddie is a comedic genius, [...]
First look: Rihanna in Battleship
Peter Berg and Universal have spent $200 million creating one of the action events of next year. But forget that, check out Rihanna. The ‘Um-ber-rella’ singer will play an FBI espionage agent brought in to help defeat the mysterious ‘orgin’ extra-terrestrials who are taking it to Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson and the US Navy in [...]
