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Netflix's DVD-by-mail service bows out as its red-and-white envelopes make their final trip

The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix’s once-iconic DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century after the birth of a concept that obliterated Blockbuster video stores while providing a springboard into video streaming that has transformed entertainment

The Independent UK

GameStop: Boom or Bust?

With share prices down 84% off the all time highs, some analysts believe that GameStop is entering value play territory. Others see a slow train to bankruptcy. So which is it? Boom or Bust?

Barchart

Mark Cuban rejected an offer to make a $250,000 investment in Uber that’d now be worth $2.3 billion

Cuban balked at Uber’s cofounder valuing the startup at $10 million.

Fortune

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Things you could do in the 1990s you can't anymore

The decade will feel like only yesterday for many

Liverpool Echo

Even Blockbuster Video Got In On Roasting Netflix Over Its New Password Sharing Rules

Blockbuster Video got in on the Netflix roasting following the streamer trying to put the brakes on password sharing.

Cinemablend

Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer admits spending $4B for Netflix—now worth over $140B—would’ve been a better ‘transformative acquisition’ than Tumblr

Mayer, like Blockbuster executives, would later regret her thinking on Netflix.

Fortune

How Netflix went from DVDs in the post to a billion dollar streaming giant after being snubbed by Amazon and Blockbuster

Netflix has become a household name and currently has over 230 million subscribers

Manchester Evening News

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BuzzFeed News Was More Blockbuster Than Netflix

For all the sneering about the publication’s end, the subscription future of news isn’t a sure bet.

Businessweek

Netflix Is Getting Rid Of Its DVD Service, Reveals Final Date It Will Be Shipping Out Discs

If you're looking to rent a DVD from Netflix, you'll have to do it soon because that service is on the way out.

Cinemablend

Netflix livestream issues force fans to choose between ‘Love is Blind’ and ‘Succession’

As fans awaited a dramatic "Love is Blind" reunion special on Netflix, they were met with TV’s equivalent of the grim reaper: buffering.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Blockbuster ‘laughed us out of the room,’ recalls Netflix cofounder on trying to sell company now worth over $150 billion for $50 million

Marc Randolph, who cofounded Netflix with Reed Hastings in 1997, sees a lesson in a key moment from the company's history.

Fortune

Original Bullseye and Blockbuster TV studio given new lease of life

University of Nottingham has breathed new life into the Lenton Lane television studio

Birmingham Post

Is Blockbuster video about to make a comeback?

The mysterious reactivation of the long-moribund brand’s site, accompanied by a cryptic message, has fans asking if a mighty return is on the cards

The Guardian - US

12 brilliant Edinburgh places every parent took their kids at the weekend in the 90s

It probably wasn't, but as a kid it definitely seemed like the 1990s was a far simpler time, free of the internet, when you'd always spend your weekends doing something really cool, fun or interesting. We take a look back at the places we frequented in Edinburgh as kids during…

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Liverpool Echo

15 things you could do in 90s Liverpool that you can't do now

These are bound to stir some memories

Edinburgh Live

All the things we could do in Edinburgh in the 00s that we can't do now

The old saying states we don't know what we've got until it's gone, which hits home for some of the spots around the city that we took for granted.

Nottingham Post

15 things you could do in 00s Nottingham that you can't do now

We've looked through our archives to find some of the things we loved and miss most about the 2000s

The Guardian - US

Wanda Sykes on Trump’s Facebook return: ‘Like letting Hannibal Lecter babysit your most delicious child’

Late-night hosts discuss Meta’s reinstatement of Donald Trump to Facebook and Instagram, and Jimmy Kimmel celebrates the 20th anniversary of his show

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The Guardian - US

Netflix’s Reed Hastings changed the way we watch TV – for better or for worse

The departing CEO’s humble company soared to stunning success and paved the way for imitators

Liverpool Echo

Lost St Helens businesses that are still used as landmarks

Despite no longer being around, these shops are still used to navigate our town

Pedestrian.tv

In Yet Another Blow To Everyone’s Childhoods, Sanity Is Closing All Its Remaining 50 Stores

Where do I pick up my So Fresh Hits Of 2023 CD now?!?

Liverpool Echo

11 things you could do in 2000s Wirral that you can't do now

Many shops, restaurants and activities that were loved in Wirral in the noughties no longer exist

Wales Online

Plans revealed to turn former Blockbuster store in Penarth into restaurant and bar

The former Blockbuster store closed in December 2013

The Guardian - US

Fake Blockbuster in Los Angeles rewinds to a pre-Netflix era

A pop-up speakeasy evokes a particular nostalgia – perhaps because the chain was one of the first victims of ‘disruption’

The Conversation

Netflix show brings back Blockbuster, but some brands should stay dead

Streaming services are replete with stories of the dead coming back to life. They’re also chock-full with dead or almost dead brands. Shows like Stranger Things have not only given new life to 1980s pop classics like Kate Bush’s Running up that Hill, but also former tech icons such as…

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