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Facebook Files For Initial Public Stock Offering, Seeks to Raise $5 Billion
CNNNEW YORK -- At long last, the Holy Grail of Internet IPOs is here. Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. In 2011, Facebook earned $1 billion on sales of $3.7 billion. As of December 31, Facebook had 845 million...Tags: Groupon, Inc., Sociology, Google Inc., CNN (tv network), Media Industry
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Netflix To Split DVD, Streaming Services
CNN/KTLA NewsNetflix is rebranding its 12-year-old movies-by-mail service as Qwikster and adding video games to its catalog, Reed Hastings, the company's CEO, announced Sunday night. The Web-streaming portion will continue to be called Netflix, he wrote on the...Tags: Wii, Xbox 360, Entertainment, Sony Corp., Nintendo Company Ltd.
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Carmelo Anthony Goes to Knicks in Blockbuster Trade
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRemember when Carmelo Anthony was the Denver Nuggets' problem? Now he's the New York Knicks' problem. In an amazing blockbuster, seeing as how the Knicks might have signed Anthony as a free agent in the summer, they traded almost everyone except Amare...Tags: Athletes, Mike D'Antoni, Denver Nuggets, Mikhail Prokhorov, New York Knicks
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Blockbuster to File for Bankruptcy in September, report
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- Blockbuster Inc., which dominated the home video rental business for more than 10 years, is reportedly planning to file for bankruptcy in September. Blockbuster executives and its senior debt holders held meetings in Los Angeles last...Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, Rentals, Los Angeles, Condos and Houses, Office and Retail Spaces
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Video Giant Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy
KTLA NewsNEW YORK -- Blockbuster Inc., once the dominant movie rental company in the U.S., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday, reeling from mounting losses, rising debt and competitors that have better catered to Americans' changed media...Tags: NYSE, Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Video Supplies and Services, Online Media Industry
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'Avatar,' 'The Hurt Locker' Lead Oscar Nominations
Associated PressBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The science-fiction sensation "Avatar" and the war-on-terror thriller "The Hurt Locker" lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for former spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow....Tags: ABC (tv network), Invictus (movie), Casablanca (movie), Entertainment, Film Festivals
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Sheriff's Patrol Car Torched Outside Santa Ana Restaurant
KTLA NewsSANTA ANA -- An Orange County sheriff's patrol car was doused with accelerant and set on fire Wednesday as two sheriff's employees were having lunch, according to officials. No one was hurt in the incident, which happened around 1:30 p.m. in a parking...Tags: Tustin (Orange, California), Restaurants, Orange County (California), Politics, Political Systems
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End-Of-World Tale '2012' Is Global Blockbuster
KTLA NewsHOLLYWOOD -- The apocalyptic film "2012" swept the weekend box office and ranked as the weekend's top movie, taking in a whopping $225 million in worldwide receipts. For comparison, the Michael Jackson concert film "This Is It" has taken in $200...Tags: Michael Jackson's This Is It (movie), Sony Corp., New York, Disasters and Accidents, Floods
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3-D Films Help Detect Undiagnosed Vision Problems
KTLA NewsThe unintended bonus of 3-D movies; uncovering undiagnosed vision problems. Blockbuster 3-D movies aren't always a hit with some viewers, many viewers are leaving the theatres sick. But optometrists say that could mean there is a vision problem that...Tags: Entertainment, Health and Medical Professionals, Movies, Muscle, Health
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Wegmans vs. the liquor lobby
If local pharmacists could write the regulations, Marylanders probably wouldn't ever have been allowed to get their prescriptions filled at chain stores like Walgreens and Rite-Aid. Independent video stores probably would have liked to outlaw Blockbuster,...
Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Netflix Inc.
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No money? No problem for Arlington Heights filmmaker
TribLocal - Arlington Heights » NewsJoe Avella wanted to make a movie. But he had one little problem: he had no money to do so. That didn’t stop Avella, a …... -
Blockbuster goes from boom to almost bust
It used to be one of the most powerful brands in America, an H. Wayne Huizenga success story that changed the fortunes of so many South Floridians. Twenty years ago, when the company was headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, there was seemingly a...Tags: Rentals, Palm Beach County, Economy, Business and Finance, Viacom Inc., Fort Lauderdale
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