No quick fix for &#36;100 million goof
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It was a $100 million mistake, and a federal judge said Friday he doesn't have the power to fix it.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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Of the $100 million expected to be bet on Super Bowl XLII on Sunday, as much of one-third will be made on a single occurrence, unlikely or not, that may happen in 60 minutes of football.
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One billion dollars is no longer enough to get into America's most exclusive club.
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Start a debate on Microsoft and there will be a thousand people ready with a hundred errors they have faced in the last 2 days! Give them a chance and the world will pounce on this monopolistic company ready to sue them for the craziest of reasons.
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The fate of rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid to add $44 billion to the House-passed economic aid package
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Plenty. Technical glitches, lawsuits and counting difficulties could gum up the works again
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A month after its unpopular price hikes, the auction site seeks to smooth some ruffled business feathers. Also: Kuwait blocks radical websites to combat terrorism.... Google loses a legal round in France.... and more.
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A missile test costing more than $100 million has gone severely wrong in the United States long-running project for a so-called &quot;son of Star Wars&quot; missile defence system.
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Investors entitled to &#36;164.3 million  in compensation for losses from faulty Wall Street research  appear in no hurry to collect what they&#039;re owed.
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Zawodny  threads off of Scoble  on the IE issue:  "I have to say, when I first read that I nearly fell off my chair laughing. I was thinking "how stupid ARE these IE guys?!?!?!" But we all know that Microsoft is full of smart people who care about what they're doing. So something really doesn't compute here."  "Last time I checked, IE wasn't even close to feature parity with Mozilla's browsers. No popup blocking, no tabbed browsing, etc."  "Does the IE team really not know what their product is missing?"  Perhaps.  It's highly likely that they just don't know.  The bigger issue here is that Microsoft products can't fail and they can't succeed.  Microsoft has 40-50 billion in the bank.  There ...
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Sport: Liverpool's American owners are close to securing a Â£350m refinancing deal for the club, against the wishes of many fans
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Why this familiar financial rule-of-thumb falls very, very short.
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Please read in the first paragraph the price as C$19.35   billion, not $19.35. Adds dropped word.
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Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar problems. If they are right - still a big if - and somebody really has cracked the so-called Riemann hypothesis, financial disaster might follow.
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Just days after Americaâs three largest banks announced a $75 billion effort to rescue troubled securities, the plan has struggled to get off the ground.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers poking holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of &#36;58.1 billion over 10 years.