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July 23, 2011 07:51 am GMT

Ouch: The Netflix Price Change Hangover

It's been pretty fascinating to watch Netflix's growth from a company that Blockbuster laughed at in 2000 (when Founder and CEO Reed Hastings and former CFO Barry McCarthy proposed to Blockbuster management that they run its online brand) to the single largest source of web traffic in North America in 2011. There have been quite a few hiccups and ups and downs along the way, as the on-demand video provider has struggled with Hollywood studios, succeeded as leadership has pushed its service onto TVs, game systems, and mobile devices -- and more recently, re-focused on its streaming business.

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