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More challenges seen for Netflix, shares drop

Wall Street is losing confidence that Netflix Inc can quickly reverse subscriber defections and cover mounting costs with growth in streaming, pushing its shares to their largest one-day decline since 2004.
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Music streaming site Deezer to launch in 100 countries

French on-line music streaming service Deezer will launch in more than 100 countries in the coming weeks, and the start-up is negotiating with roughly a dozen telecom operators on partnerships in a bid to expand its global reach.
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DVDs stay on Netflix website, Qwikster name gone

Netflix Inc Chief Executive Reed Hastings reversed an unpopular decision to separate his company's DVD rental business and online video streaming service, sending the stock up 10 percent in premarket trading.
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Netflix Abandons ‘Qwikster’ Even Before Launch

It is clear for many of our members two Web sites would make things more difficult, CEO Reed Hastings posted on a blog overnight. So we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
Reed Hastings has angered Netflix customers twice this summer, raising prices and splitting off the two services. He hopes to regain favor by signing Dreamworks.

Amazon-Netflix Streaming Arms Race Heats Up

On Monday, Amazon announced that it had closed a deal with 20th Century Fox to stream 2,000 of the studio's titles under its Amazon Prime subscription service. This news followed close on the heels of Netflix's announcement that it had signed an exclusive deal to stream movies from DreamWorks Animation. The two companies have spent the past several months snapping up content in a decidedly eager - if piecemeal - way.

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