The red envelope of Netflix continues its global expansion with official word that the service will be coming to Spain in January 2012. The move was confirmed by Pedro Perez of FAPAE, the Spanish Spanish producers association. Netflix has caught fire in many territories throughout North and Central America, but faces an uphill battle in Spain, a country famous for high levels of piracy.
Tech-savvy parents know there is a lot of kid-friendly content on Netflix. The only problem is that many young ones lack the reading ability or manual dexterity to navigate to the shows themselves. Enter the Netflix “Just for Kids” section. This new UI is being previewed for some users already, but the company hasn't said anything about it.
Hulu’s international plans have been the subject of much speculation in recent months as Netflix begins its worldwide expansion. The video streaming service had finally made its first move. Hulu will be available to Japanese users later this year.
A new survey by market research firm Nielsen examines the viewing habits of both Netflix and Hulu users, and there's a definite disparity in how each one is accessed. When it comes to watching Netflix content via streaming, half of all viewers tap into the service's online catalog through their Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii consoles, whereas nearly nine out of 10 (89 percent) of Hulu users watch videos directly on their computer.
Netflix acknowledged in its Q2 earnings report that its recent price hike will likely cause revenue to fall in the third quarter before rebounding in the fourth. Investors responded by feeding the hybrid DVD-by-mail/streaming movie service a heaping slice of humble pie in after hours trading, sending the company's sky-high stock price down more than 10 percent.
We know that a lot of you are mighty sore about the recent hike in Netflix rates, but according to sources, they’re putting that money to use. Netflix has reportedly worked out a deal with DreamWorks Animation to get the studio's films on the Internet company’s streaming service. 
From a semi-conspiracy theorist standpoint, it seems pretty obvious that Netflix wants to phase out its DVD business entirely by weaning all of its subscribers over to its streaming-only plan. If Netflix truly wants to go all-in with its streaming service -- and it should be noted that company CEO Reed Hastings has never been bashful about Netflix being primarily a streaming service going forward -- it will have to overcome certain challenges, one of those being the persistent outages that so vex its subscribers, like the one that took place over the weekend.
Netflix has been facing a ton of consumer backlash over its recently announced price hikes, and while the company has been fairly tight lipped when it comes to explaining why it was necessary, the 
Netflix’s subscriber base for instant streaming seems to be growing by leaps and bounds, however, the rise of increasingly stingy bandwidth caps threaten to send it all crashing down. Netflix has introduced new methods of adjusting the video quality as a method of working around the problem, but the otherwise powerless company has finally decided to take it’s fight with ISP’s to the mass media. In an incredibly eloquent opinion piece for the 
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