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- Blockbuster can start due diligence on Circuit City
- Blockbuster can start due diligence on Circuit CitySM & CC, NF & BBSystemax is an better fit for Circuit City since Systemax already have an strong online store called TigerDirect. They also purchased most of CompUSA stores. It will be the most obvious and safest fit. Blockbuster will be better...
- Tags: Blockbuster Inc., Systemax, NetFlix Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Blockbuster can start due diligence on Circuit City
- Circuit City said Friday that it is exploring strategic alternatives and will allow Blockbuster and investor Carl Icahn to "conduct additional due diligence." Last month, Blockbuster announced a rather perplexing plan to acquire Circuit City in an attempt to take two struggling retailers and make one strong...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Diligence, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Blockbuster offers $1 billion-plus for Circuit City
- Blockbuster offers $1 billion-plus for Circuit CityDrowning menBlockbuster has a limited life with broadband and movies on demand. It won’t be long before they’re out of business with their model as it currently is. I get the impression BB need to change their delivery, otherwise they’re history before too long.And...
- Tags: Blockbuster Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Chart of the day: Blockbuster and Circuit City vs. Apple, Amazon, Best Buy
- Chart of the day: Blockbuster and Circuit City vs. Apple, Amazon, Best BuyName Please...I wonder which name going to get ditched? It wouldn't work even if Blockbuster folded all movie rental operations into an Circuit City in store kiosk just like Best Buy did with the Geek Squad. That scenario...
- Tags: Branding, Amazon.com Inc., intenet, Apple Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Chart of the day: Blockbuster and Circuit City vs. Apple, Amazon, Best Buy
- The reaction to Blockbuster's attempt to buy Circuit City has ranged from the comical to the downright negative. I don't get this deal, but at least I'm not alone. On the bright side, Blockbuster has provided us with a few charts of the day. ...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City
- Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit CityI don't understand it either.I just don't see how merging these two will make them both successfull either. This is like merging Sear's and KMART. I just do not get it. Movie rentals are a dying breed and until a formal way...
- Tags: Investment, Movie Rentals, Blockbuster Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., media convergence
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City
- Updated: Here's a deal where 1 + 1 = 0.5: Blockbuster is offering to acquire Circuit City for "a least $6 a share." Blockbuster went public on Monday (statement) with an offer to buy Circuit City. Blockbuster says it sent a letter Feb. 17, but Circuit City...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Convergence, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs
- Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVsA waste of timeIt never ceases to amaze me. We have seen that music is pretty much dead in the water insofar as getting people to pay for it. DRM is also heading the way of the dodo in music content terms. Movies will follow the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Blockbuster Inc., music, digital-rights management, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- Blockbuster, Netflix at patent loggerheads
- Blockbuster, Netflix at patent loggerheadsHow could the Blockbuster claim even be considered?When Netflix filed for the patent, Blockbuster was still a simple brick and morter, walk in, rent it, pay your late fees organization. In fact, looking that far back, no one was even considering the option of online...
- Tags: patent, NetFlix Inc., Blockbuster Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Data mining Digg
- Here is a beautiful example of poking around inside an application to gather what otherwise would be proprietary data. John Graham-Cumming has hacked the social book marking application Digg to discover how many registered users they have. He noticed that inside the html code associated with each user was...
- Tags: Security, Digg, Blog, Data Mining, Blockbuster Inc., Help Desk, Blogging, Call Centers, DVD, Consumer Electronics, It Operations, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- iTunes movie rentals vs. Netflix: It's Apples (Jobs variety) and oranges
- Apple makes a big plunge into the movie rental business and almost instinctively folks dust off the "Netflix is screwed" line. However, you may want to hold off on that Netflix obituary (again). Now it's entirely possible that Apple's movie rental service (gallery, blog focus, video)...
- Tags: Game, NetFlix Inc., Job, Movie, Blockbuster Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Comcast to announce Fancast video portal: watch out, TiVo and Blockbuster stores
- Here at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the most overarchingly important innovation I've seen so far just has to be Comcast's new Fancast service. Fancast.com will let subscribers search for and manage their TV shows as well as movie viewing. You will be...
- Tags: VoD, Comcast Corp., Blockbuster Inc., Video, TiVo Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Portals, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Blockbuster to raise Total Access prices
- Blockbuster to raise Total Access pricesYah meI still pay $14.99/mo for 3 at a time, unlimited trade ins and 2 free in store coupons. Yah for being a non abusive member and staying under the radar.RE: Blockbuster to raise Total Access pricesI got the email yesterday that they were raising...
- Tags: E-mail, Blockbuster Inc., Total Access price, Total Access
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- Blockbuster in talks with handset makers
- Blockbuster in talks with handset makersWith XML (a NON Microsoft Technology) you can do anything!I think it is soooo sad that EACH and EVERY SINGLE software publisher (with the exception of Apple) has REMOVED XML from the public sphere and made it so you have to buy/install/approve of an application...
- Tags: XML, Blockbuster Inc., handset
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Blockbuster tests pricing, new formats for stores
- Blockbuster tests pricing, new formats for storesBlockbuster tests pricing, new formats for storesBlockbuster is finding every way possible to try to screw the customer and is wondering why their shares are slipping? I bet it has something to do with increasing the pricing plans while decreasing the number of...
- Tags: HD DVD, Pricing, Marketing research, Blockbuster Inc., pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- News to know: AT&T Tilt; Vista SP1; Server flaws; .Net
- Notable headlines: Matthew Miller: First impressions of the AT&T Tilt. Gallery: The unboxing. Mary Jo Foley: Accounted for: The five mystery Vista updates to be added to SP1. Ryan Naraine: X Font Server flaw hits Sun Solaris hard. Apple (finally) fixes...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Projector, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Zune, Blockbuster Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, AT&T Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc., Health Care, Server, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Blockbuster's online DVD subscribers seen down
- Blockbuster's online DVD subscribers seen downBlockbuster's online DVD subscribers seen downIts down due to their changing of plans and everyone moving to netflix.
- Tags: online-DVD subscriber, online-DVD, Blockbuster Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- News to know: Linux; XP SP3; MySpace profits; HTC Advantage unwrapped
- Notable headlines:Paula Rooney: Torvalds, Red Hat are no shows at Linuxworld. Novell CEO Calls For New Linux Distro ISV Standard, Praises FSF.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms Windows XP SP3 pre-beta is in testers' hands. A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta. You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDrive. Ed Bott: A confusing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Linux, High Tech Computer Corp., Google News, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., MySpace, IBM Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Now showing: Blockbuster squeezes Netflix
- Now showing: Blockbuster squeezes NetflixFamily Video beats them all hands down!We used Netflix for about a year but I got fed up waiting 3 days for the next mailing when I knew their closest DC was 2 hrs away.I watched a Family Video store (who are they I wondered) being...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Blockbuster Inc., NetFlix Inc., video
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- Now showing: Blockbuster squeezes Netflix
- Netflix has a great service. Just not great enough to avoid a bloody price war with Blockbuster's TotalAccess plan. On Sunday, Netflix lowered two of its most popular subscription plans by $1 (see statement). The $9.99 a month plan to provide unlimited DVD rentals on a PC was cut to...
- Tags: Web Technology, Hollywood on Demand, General, Entertainment
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
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