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Netflix, now with 9 million subscribers, still trying to figure out how to make money off streaming
Netflix, now with 9 million subscribers, still trying to figure out how to make money off streaming
Flickr’d So now Netflix has 9 million subscribers . A million here, a million there, sooner or later we’re talking about real people. If there’s a silver lining to the company’s success, it’s that the new streaming service, which works quite well on the Xbox ...
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GeekSugar — ... Netflix has over 9 million subscribers, and with its new streaming service, which costs quite a bit to maintain but is free to use with your subscription, the company is trying to figure out how to make it a money machine. — CrunchGear ...

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