Google acquires Netflix, Vudu, and Blockbuster's streaming video DRM provider Widevine
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Not for nothing, but I figured this has direct relevance to the current dialog regarding Netflix, Comcast, et al. http://www.betanews.com/article/Google-acquires-Netflix-Vudu-and-Blockbuste rs-streaming-video-DRM-provider-Widevine/1291420252 FYI, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFM+eRqq1pz9mNUZTMRAsm7AJ0Ub6UeMyhjmu8iNZUX9shm+s3r0QCg24b7 YCqeHLPeaNIq+h1zrED4cU4= =Wi/L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
They must be starting their Christmas shopping; they also just bought 111 8th Avenue. Google Signs Deal to Buy Manhattan Office Building http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/nyregion/03building.html?_r=2 The newspapers keep describing it as "one of New York's largest office buildings", but I remember it somewhat differently from when I worked there at AboveNet's data center. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/09/14/111-8th-avenue-carrie... Barb On 04/12/2010 06:49 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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Not for nothing, but I figured this has direct relevance to the current dialog regarding Netflix, Comcast, et al.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Google-acquires-Netflix-Vudu-and-Blockbuste rs-streaming-video-DRM-provider-Widevine/1291420252
FYI,
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