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IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Bell et al. |
The Million Dollar Programming Prize Netflix's bounty for improving its movie-recommendation software is almost in the bag. Here is one team's account   |
PC Magazine
January 31, 2007
Angela Chang |
The Million-Dollar Recommendation Netflix offers a cool million to improve its movie recommendation feature. |
InternetNews
October 2, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Netflix Offers $1M For Innovation Netflix today announced the Netflix Prize, an award of $1 million dollars to the first person to improve Netflix's movie recommendation system's accuracy by at least 10 percent. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Building a Better Netflix The leading provider of DVD rentals by mail announced a contest for data-crunchers who are up to the challenge of improving on the company's algorithms for member recommendations. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Netflix Has a Million-Dollar Advantage Media companies that will dominate in the future are those that know how to get the user to the content he/she wants. The Netflix Prize competition shows how seriously Netflix takes the whole movie recommendation issue. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Netflix's Second Million-Dollar Competition Netflix is moving on to its next challenge: the next $1 million Netflix Prize relies on demographic data and previous rental history. |
Fast Company
October 2005
Jena McGregor |
High-tech Achiever: Netflix The starring role in Netflix's strategy goes to its top-secret, highly customized technology, which offers its more than 3 million online customers their own personal box office. |
Home Theater
July 2, 2009 |
Better Netflix Brings Cool Million If it gets easier to find what you want on Netflix in the near future, you can thank a team of experts who came up with an improved search algorithm. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2009 |
Netflix Names Winner of Its $1 Million Prize After three years, a team emerges as the victor in the online movie giant's research project. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2009 |
Three Years Later, Netflix Issues $1m Reward It only took three years and a team of mathematicians and statisticians, but a $1 million reward for improving the service has finally been given. |
Wired
December 2002
Jeffrey M. O'Brien |
The Netflix Effect Still waiting for video-on-demand? Forget fat pipes -- watch your mailbox. The video rental game is being shaken to its core. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Netflix Wants to Really Get to Know You Is Netflix building a new revenue stream or just protecting the old ones? I'm good either way. |
The Motley Fool
November 8, 2006
Mac Greer |
Taking Stock of Maverick Businesses An interview with Bill Taylor, author of the recently published book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, devoted to showcasing the power of business at its best. |
Technology Research News
July 2, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Recommenders can skew results Just how accurate are the recommender systems online media sellers use to allow buyers to pass on their judgments about books, movies and CDs to their fellow consumers? Researchers have shown that the way recommender systems are set up can affect the opinions they evoke. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
What Are Friends For? Netflix hopes its new program is just the ticket in preventing subscriber attrition. |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Let's Play Flick Rental Limbo Wal-Mart lowers the bar in the online movie rental war by slashing prices on its basic rental service. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2004
Daniel Hong |
The Last Word on Netflix If online DVD rental outfit Netflix can meet its goals, the stock looks like a winner. |
Entrepreneur
August 2003
Melissa Campanelli |
The Ratings Game Many sites allow visitors to review and rate the products they're selling. Should you follow suit? |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Love It or Hate It: Netflix Has Changed The landing page for its increasingly central Watch Instantly service just got a severe overhaul, and many users hate it. |
Search Engine Watch
May 25, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Launches Personalized Movie Recommendations Looking for a film recommendation based on your own personal tastes and interests? Check out Yahoo's new personalized movie recommendations. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix Nearly Dodges a Bullet Online DVD renter Netflix offers select customers even bigger price cuts. Now, not only is it likely that the company will lower guidance, again, but it is also likely that the majority of customers not receiving the discount may feel cheated. |
Wired
October 2009
Daniel Roth |
NetFlix Everywhere: Sorry Cable, You're History Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has a vision -- every movie ever made on every screen everywhere. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2011
Brian Richards |
What the 24-Cent Credit Says About Netflix It's more than just a quarter. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Buck Back Mountain at Netflix Netflix's getting ready to report its second-quarter results, and investors seem worried about one thing: How much money the company stands to lose with the price cuts it announced over the weekend. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
No Thank Queue, Netflix Netflix gets it wrong by killing multiple queues. |
Wired
September 2006
Erin Biba |
Netflix Presents The main attraction is still renting movies by mail, but now the company is producing its own indie flicks. Look out, Bob and Harvey. |
Fast Company
February 2014
Nicole Laporte |
Netflix: The Red Menace In the creative community that drives Hollywood, Netflix has stolen a step on HBO, cable's most pedigreed channel. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Netflix: Why Watch "Hunger Games" When You Can Watch Our Original Movies? Netflix made the case for its upcoming slate of original films, claiming its own content would serve as a worthy alternative for users that are upset by its decision to not provide access to some popular movies. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix Earns Four Stars Netflix has a blowout quarter but it's not perfect. This will be a year in which investors will be well-served to watch both Blockbuster and Netflix closely. |
The Motley Fool
March 15, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Privacy Fears Kill a Million-Dollar Prize Guilty pleasures may not be so much fun when they're out in the open. That's why Netflix needs a new research vehicle. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2004
Marko Djuranovic |
The Two Million Man Moat Netflix may have an overlooked competitive advantage in the DVD rental business. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix's Nutty Undertaking The movie-watching stunt shows the way to the rental giant's demise. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2010
Jason Moser |
This Stock Has the Edge Porter's Five Forces examines a company through five lenses: barriers to entry, threat of substitutes, power of buyers, power of suppliers, and industry jockeying. Let's see how Netflix does with these measures. |
InternetNews
August 8, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Netflix Gets Hacked Netflix is under attack from a hacker who found a way to keep the company's downloaded movies. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2010
Jeremy Phillips |
The 1 Reason Amazon Should Buy Netflix Netflix combined with IMDB.com could serve all your Web movie buying, renting, and researching needs. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Rocking rentals and ratings retreads were passing ships fit to be featured this past week: Nothin' but Netflix... Network alphabet soup... |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Seth Jayson |
5 Things Amazon Needs to Do to Kill Netflix Amazon's scale and variety of products could provide it with a valuable edge in the bidding for top-notch entertainment. |
BusinessWeek
August 2, 2004
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Netflix: Moving Into Slo-Mo? The rising cost of online ads blindsided the online movie-rental outfit. And rivals are looming. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2010
Anders Bylund |
76 Out of 250 Ain't Bad, Netflix! If quality content is the key to online success, Netflix is on the right track. |
Inc.
December 2005
Patrick J. Sauer |
Q&A: Reed Hastings, Netflix Reed Hastings, the founder of Netflix, talks about developing a passion brand, and sustaining it as passions change. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2005
Rick Munarriz |
Halloween Treat: Netflix Advertising initiatives, new markets, and the potential to apply the established ring of network centers to distribute everything from video games to music to software will keep the stock going well beyond its first 4 million diehard fans. |
The Motley Fool
June 13, 2005
Marko Djuranovic |
Movies for Sale at Netflix Though the program is still small, customers can now buy used movies directly from the company. It's important for investors not to overstate this portion of Netflix's business. In fact, they should all but ignore it. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Dueling Fools: Netflix Bull Given Netflix's strong management and innovative nature, it is not wise to underestimate the power of this company to deliver continued returns to its shareholders for years to come. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2005
Charly Travers |
Stock Madness 2005: Celgene vs. Netflix Biotech battles entertainment in this Round 3 matchup of "Stock Madness 2005," a contest based loosely on the annual NCAA College Basketball Tournament, a.k.a. March Madness. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
The Fight for Video on Demand Netflix sizes up a hot market that could pose a threat to it. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix Bucks the Trend The video-rental site makes its cheapest plan even cheaper. Should investors panic? |
PC Magazine
April 16, 2010
Sean Ludwig |
Netflix (for iPad) Review & Rating Netflix for iPad provides a good way to watch movies and TV shows anywhere with a Wi-Fi connection, but the version I tried was definitely 1.0. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix: Qwikster or Quicksand? Netflix plans to truly split its two plans into two distinct businesses. Say hello to Qwikster. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2005
Marko Djuranovic |
Netflix's Spin Move While Blockbuster's more attractive pricing presents a better deal, Netflix has a pair of aces up its sleeve -- two lower-rental plans that actually undercut Blockbuster on price. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Will Blockbuster Bust Netflix? Though both stocks dipped today, this is hardly a move that is unexpected. What may be the clearer differentiator will be continuously tapping into what works for movie watchers. |
