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January 29th, 2010, 16:40
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It's total pie-in-sky speculation, completely lacking in serious evidence or even vague "sources familiar with the matter," but for some reason, after two and a half years of hard rumoring (http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/amazon-and-netflix-deny-rampant-aquisition-rumors/), analysts seem more sure than ever that Amazon is looking into a Netflix acquisition. Netflix just announced some pretty attractive quarterly earnings, along with some nice hard numbers: it added one million subscribers in Q4 to notch itself past the 12 million mark, and 48% of its customers streamed at least 15 minutes of video off of Instant Watch -- compared to 28% a year ago. The logic goes that Amazon's looking to position itself as a digital goods purveyor, and Netflix is doing a bang up job of that very thing. Sounds just fine to us, but if Amazon tries to lock us into E Ink Netflix streaming on the Kindle, some heads are going to roll. There's naturally no comment from Netflix or Amazon on the speculation.
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It's total pie-in-sky speculation, completely lacking in serious evidence or even vague "sources familiar with the matter," but for some reason, after two and a half years of hard rumoring (http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/amazon-and-netflix-deny-rampant-aquisition-rumors/), analysts seem more sure than ever that Amazon is looking into a Netflix acquisition. Netflix just announced some pretty attractive quarterly earnings, along with some nice hard numbers: it added one million subscribers in Q4 to notch itself past the 12 million mark, and 48% of its customers streamed at least 15 minutes of video off of Instant Watch -- compared to 28% a year ago. The logic goes that Amazon's looking to position itself as a digital goods purveyor, and Netflix is doing a bang up job of that very thing. Sounds just fine to us, but if Amazon tries to lock us into E Ink Netflix streaming on the Kindle, some heads are going to roll. There's naturally no comment from Netflix or Amazon on the speculation.
[Thanks, Steve H.]Netflix earnings, subscribers and streaming growth have analysts drooling over a theoretical Amazon buy (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/netflix-earnings-subscribers-and-streaming-growth-have-analysts/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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