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Comcast Corp, the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, became the latest major name to take on Netflix Inc on Tuesday when it announced plans for an online video service offering a library of TV shows and movies.

Arrested Development star David Cross confessed to snorting cocaine at the 2009 White House Correspondent's dinner, while in the presence of President Obama, in a recent interview with Playboy magazine, according to the NY Daily News.

Arrested Development star David Cross confessed to snorting cocaine at the 2009 White House Correspondent's dinner, while in the presence of President Obama, in a recent interview with Playboy magazine, according to the NY Daily News.

Netflix and the Weinstein Co. announced Tuesday it had entered into a multi-year licensing agreement that will make foreign language, documentary and certain other movies from The Weinstein Company available exclusively to U.S. Netflix subscribers.

Last night, our beloved Downton Abbey concluded its second season. We've been on board with the show from the moment we heard the series' dramatic overture. Since then, it's been a marathon of dressing gongs, fancy dinning utensils, secret affairs, stolen glances, bitter revenge, and constant Oh no, they didn't moments.

The ongoing kerfuffle between classic TV services and the web's intermediaries has a new web-streaming combatant, Aereo, which announced on Wednesday a $20.5 million infusion of funding from media veteran Barry Diller.

Droid 4, which was released Friday (Feb. 10), is Motorola's first 4G LTE smartphone that comes with the QWERTY keyboard.

Has Facebook, the No. 1 global social media site now seeking to go public, overlooked women, who constitute more than half of its 845 million members?

Valentine's Day is hard enough without choosing the wrong DVD to watch.

Shares of the Bellevue, Wash.-based company rose nearly 18 percent to $59.37 in morning trading.

Is a 42-inch Apple HDTV on its way with a price tag of $1499? Yes, if reports claiming that Best Buy is surveying customers' expectations from the highly anticipated Apple TV, are to be believed.

Apple will launch its own HDTV, called the “iTV,” according to the latest analyst report.

Early in Lilyhammer, Netflix's eight-show original series that launches Monday, we meet Steven Van Zandt's Frank The Fixer Tagliano.

Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ:CSTR), parent of DVD-rental firm Redbox, reported a jump in fourth-quarter profit that beat analyst expectations as soaring revenue offset a slight decrease in its operating margin.

The challenge for the Los Gatos, Calif.-based entertainment provider is to stand out as others such as Hulu and Amazon with its Prime service and Redbox try to gain an edge in the streaming business.

Netflix released a new original series, Lilyhammer, Monday, starring former The Sopranos star and E Street Band-member Steven Van Zandt. Although the Norwegian-American series was produced by Rubicon TV AS, a Norwegian production company, Netflix co-produced and financed much of the show, signaling a remarkable new business direction for the company.

The deal will allow Redbox to pose a more credible challenge to rival Netflix, while it could permit Verizon to control more of the content available through its platforms.

As companies such as Netflix and Amazon increasingly set their sights on their online streaming business, competitor Redbox has what some analysts believe is a serious problem: no streaming service.

Coinstar is expected to report net profit of $20.93 million, or 65 cents a share, down 7.1 percent from $22.42 million,or 68 cents a share in the year earlier period..

As soon as news broke that Facebook was filing for its IPO, rumors spread that the public offering would create 1,000 overnight millionaires.

After shares of Netflix hit rock bottom following an ill-fated business decision last September, the Los Gatos, Calif-based company has seen its shares go back up rather quickly.