Privacy issues nix Netflix movie-picking contest

(AP) -- A multinational group of researchers, scientists and engineers are close to winning a $1 million prize from Netflix.

(AP) -- Netflix Inc. declared a seven-member group of researchers, scientists and engineers from around the world as winners Monday of its three-year, $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendation system by at least ...

(AP) -- You might call it "Son of the Netflix Prize."

(AP) -- Anyone with a computer and Internet connection can be off to see "The Wizard of Oz" for free next month, courtesy of Netflix Inc.'s movie-streaming service.

(AP) -- Netflix Inc. says its first-quarter profit soared as 920,000 new subscribers signed up for its DVD-by-mail rental service.

(AP) -- Netflix Inc. will delay sending out Warner Bros.' latest movies by nearly a month in a concession that the DVD-by-mail service made so it could gain rights to show its subscribers more movies over the Internet.

Online video site Hulu is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

(AP)—Netflix is hoping this weekend's release of the resurrected TV series "Arrested Development" will draw more subscribers to its Internet video service.

PayPal is doubling down on efforts to bring the mobile payment platform to brick-and-mortar stores and restaurants, offering new pay-from-your-smartphone services that threaten to make the physical wallet obsolete.

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook disclosed during a Senate hearing this week that the tech giant will invest more than $100 million to build a factory in the Lone Star State, where it will assemble a line of Mac computers.

(AP)—News Corp. says its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies.

The US International Trade Commission sided with Microsoft in a patent dispute with Google-owned Motorola Mobility that could have led to Xbox 360 videogame consoles being banned from import.