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Barnes & Noble Inc.'s (BKS) Nook tablet business unveiled a handful of new content licensing partnerships, as it looks to expand its Nook Video library of movie and TV shows.The new partnerships deals involve Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (LGF), MGM Holdings Inc., Viacom Inc.'s (VIA, VIAB) Paramount Pictures, Relativity Media, National Geographic, Little Pim and Film Buff.Tablet makers, including Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), and streaming services such as Netflix Inc. (NFLX), have all been working on building their catalogues of movies and TV shows in an effort to gain more users. Some players involved have also pushed into creating their own exclusive content that can only be seen on their services, such as Netflix's recently released "House of Cards" TV series.While more customers move to tablets and streaming services, Barnes & Noble's Nook digital business posted bigger quarterly losses last month, a sign it many be falling behind Amazon and Apple in the tablet wa...
Privately held MGM Holdings Inc., the parent company of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., is readying for an IPO using Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) as a...
Online retailer Amazon.com said Wednesday it entered a licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios to add more than 18,000 movies and television episo...
With Netflix just arriving on UK shores, analysts have come to question whether it will be able to compete with established streaming services such as Amazon's LoveF...
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Monday in a strategic move that directly competes with Amazon-owned (NASDAQ:AMZN) Lovefilm by pro...
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced a multi-year licensing deal on Monday that allows the film and TV streamer to run MGM titles in ...
The tech sector was groping for direction early Monday, buoyed by gains in shares of Netflix Inc. which were up more than 3% after the company announced a subscripti...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The tech sector was groping for direction early Monday, buoyed by gains in shares of Netflix Inc. which were up more than 3% after the company annou...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge dismissed part of a lawsuit by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp <LGF.N> against Carl Icahn that accused the activist inve...
Netflix is in early talks with Liberty Media's Starz about extending a licensing deal for its online video service with the pay-TV channel, the New York Post reporte...
Lions Gate Entertainment plans to meet with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the next few days to present a proposal to combine the two studios once MGM, emerges from bankrupt...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc, one of Hollywood's most storied film studios, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday after struggling for years to reduce its ...
Video chain Blockbuster Inc must replace its chief executive by the end of the year in order to please billionaire investor Carl Icahn and emerge from bankruptcy.The...
U.S. stock markets are open today, but banks and bond markets are closed in observance of Veterans Day.It's going to be a long and hard claw back for stocks when the...
Investors looking for some definitive direction on Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) may be scratching their heads amid all the hoopla surrounding the stock in recent weeks.Read...
Amazon Studios has optioned the rights to a novel, a first for the original content arm of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), which will begin testing big-screen adaptations of...
Amazon Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Epix struck a deal that doubles the number of movies in Amazon's library, ramping up the fierce competition with the likes of Netflix an...
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) said it signed a multiyear licensing deal in the U.S. with EPIX, a cable channel, to bring superhero blockbuster movies and thousands of other...
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) unveiled an expanded content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution that beefs up Amazon's Prime Instant Video c...
Movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has reached a deal with Carl Icahn to buy back his shares in the film studio for about $590 million, media reports said late Tuesday...
