Apple, Fox Planning Movie Rental Deal: Reports
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Apple to announce deal with Twentieth Century Fox allowing movie rentals through, according to reports.
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Apple Inc.&#39;s plans to enter the  nascent online movie rental business drew skepticism on Monday  from Hollywood executives who questioned pricing, copy  protection and the timing of a possible launch.
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Fox and Apple have joined to provide access to content from the hit television show's current season.
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According to London&#39;s Financial Times, Apple is in advanced discussions with Hollywood movie studios about launching an online film-rental service to rival cable and satellite TV operators. The Wall Street Journal is also reporting the movie-rental deal, citing two studio executives familiar with the matter.
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If Apple unveils a movie download service at its September 12 press event as it&#8217;s widely expected to do, it will have some company. What&#8217;s more, whatever service Apple wind up announcing will follow on the heels of a digital video store launched by another tech industry giant.
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With iTunes movie rentals now available, Don Reisinger thinks Steve Jobs pulled a fast one on the online rental industry. Is he right?
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Apple Computer Inc. may soon  launch a service that allows users to download feature-length  films, boosting its presence in the digital home, analysts said  on Tuesday.
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Apple Inc and News Corp.'s Twentieth  Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow  consumers to rent movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store,  media reports said on Thursday.
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Blog: New reports say Apple is going to open an online movie rental store.
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Apple is set to unveil at MacWorld San Francisco a groundbreaking deal with News Corp.'s Fox movie studio to rent movies through Apple's iTunes store, news reports revealed Thursday. If true, the news could impact the landscape for on-demand movie rentals dramatically.
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Apple gets into the movie rental business, digitally.
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Movie-rental company Blockbuster Inc.   is in advanced talks to acquire Movielink LLC, an  online movie-downloading company owned by the major Hollywood  studios, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing  people familiar with the matter.
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Merger talks between Verizon  Communications VZ.N and MCI Inc. MCIP.O have advanced, and  the two companies could announce a deal in the next few days,  the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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TechWeb - Apple Computer and Apple Corps may forge an agreement to offer Beatles music over iTunes, according to published reports.
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By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 18--Hollywood is sending in the A-team -- Amazon and Apple -- on a  kind of mission impossible: persuade consumers to download movies online,  instead of buying or renting DVDs.   This might be the technology of the future.
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As far as I'm concerned, the most important deal to come out of the annual Mac trade show was Apple's decision to offer movie rentals through its iTunes Store.
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(InfoWorld) - In only one week, Apple Computer's iTunes Store generated $1 million in movie sales for Walt Disney, and that's "just the beginning," the head of Disney said Tuesday. By the end of this year, Disney expects to reap $50 million in movie sales through the iTunes Store "at no marketing expense to us at all," said Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Disney, at a conference put on by The Goldman Sacks Group and webcast over the Internet. Disney became the first company to offer movies through the iTunes Store last week, a total of 75 films including new titles such as "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," and older classics such as "The Incredibles" and "Cinderella." The initial success of the venture, with over 125,000 Disney titles sold in a week, should help boost confidence in the Internet as a lucrative place for entertainment companies to deliver content to users. It should also help allay fears over movie piracy, an issue the movie and recording industry has fought a tough battle against. "We are very, very bullish on consumption over electronically delivered media and we're taking a very optimistic view of technology as a friend, or a great enabler, and not a great predator," Iger said. Disney plans to expand the number of movies it offers through iTunes and the number of Web-based stores where users can buy its movies. "This is not exclusive to Apple," he said. During the Goldman conference, Iger also praised Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his performance asÂ a Disney board memberÂ for bringing in his ideas on new opportunities for media in the Internet age. "He has become, very quickly, not only a great sounding board but a great advisor, someone I can turn to readily for advice in a lot of these areas," said Iger. Jobs became a major shareholder and board member of Disney after the media and entertainment giant bought computer animation studio Pixar earlier this year. Jobs had been head of Pixar and a major shareholder in the company. An audio webcast of comments by Iger can beÂ accessed here.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.