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Chesapeake Energy Corporation : The company is pursuing joint venture transactions in its Mississippi Lime and Permian Basin plays where it owns 1.8 million and 1.5 million net acres of leasehold, respectively.

Jan. 25: Netflix Inc. discloses that it has regained almost as many customers as it lost following an unpopular price increase, signaling that the video subscription service is healing from its self-inflicted wounds.

After years of banking on movie rentals, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his staff have found TV streaming more profitable.

Whitney Houston, 48, has died, several major media outlets reported early Saturday evening.

TheA S&P 500 A closed the week down 0.02% to settle at 1,343. Lots of action as the EU focused on Greece.

As the world's third-richest person and most celebrated investor, Warren Buffett attracts a lot of attention.

Its closest streaming competitor got stronger . A new rival was born when Redbox teamed up with the country's leading wireless carrier with plans to roll out a competing digital service later this year.

West Virginia mining officials will release the fourth and final report on the Upper Big Branch mine disaster Feb.

The Nielsen Co. was careful not to fan the cord-cutting flames, but its latest Cross Platform Report shows that the number of U.S. homes with broadcast-only TV and broadband jumped 22.8 percent since the third quarter of 2010.

Netflix continues to share the tools they use to run Netflix.com. On the Netflix Tech Blog ,Brian Harrington & Greg Orzell explain what Servo is: It is designed to make it easy for developers to export metrics from their application code, register them with JMX, and publish them to external monitoring systems such as Amazon's CloudWatch .

Netflix paid $9 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the video-subscription company of violating the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, it disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday.

Netflix disclosed this afternoon that it will pay to settle nationwide claims that it illegally retained customers' rental histories.

It turns out Netflix's fourth-quarter earnings aren't quite as good as the video subscription service told investors a couple weeks ago.

In trading on Friday, entertainment shares were relative leaders, down on the day by about 0.3%. Leading the group were shares of Lions Gate Entmnt , up about 8% and shares of Netflix up about 0.6% on the day.

Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming.

Ted Sarandos, chief content officer of Netflix, and Gerhard Zeiler, CEO of RTL Group will speak at the NAB Show, the annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage and distribute entertainment across all media platforms.

Here are full details, what it all means for investors, and why it's Amazon's good fortune you can't download a refrigerator.

Just as Netflix is nearly ubiquitous on media streaming platforms in the US, BBC's iPlayer is pretty much a default app in the UK so it's no surprise to see it show up on Roku's boxes just as they start shipping across the Atlantic .

Despite an aggressive push to increase the variety of TV shows and movies, Amazon isn't planning to split off its Prime streaming video service into a standalone subscription offering, according to the company's management team.

Posted in: Broadband Video Companies , Deals, Funding & Acquisitions , News , Video Distribution , Video on Demand by Dave Parrack on February 9, 2012 Watch out, Netflix, you have competition.