Autodesk has revealed plans to offer a software subscription model, with details to come in October. Company CEO, Carl Bass, spoke of an array of upcoming software rental options during an earnings call on Thursday, August 22. When analysts on the conference call pointed out the similarity to Adobe’s Creative Cloud business model, Bass clarified, […]
Popular short-term car rental service Zipcar sells out to rental giant Avis today, in a $500 million deal. Zipcar, founded in 2000, claims a customer base of over 760,000 users and a fleet of over 11,000 vehicles available for use in the United States, Canada, the UK, Austria and Spain. Unlike traditional rental car services, […]
Netflix, famous for keeping the U.S. postal system relevant with their red envelopes of rental DVDs, continues the struggle to provide content in digital streaming format. Tuesday’s multi-year deal with the Weinstein Company guarantees them streaming rights to such movies as The Artist, a silent film nominated for 10 Academy Awards. The Weinstein releases will […]
All’s been quiet on the Netflix front for a week or so, so it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone when the company made an unexpected announcement early yesterday morning (emphasis mine): It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to […]
In the wake of Netflix’s major price increase announced last week, Blockbuster has announced a special promotion for Netflix customers. I had expected Blockbuster to make a pitch for their program; it would be a bit bizarre if they didn’t. What I didn’t expect is for their deal to be so much worse than the […]
