Reed Hastings Archives

France to force Apple, Netflix, Disney, others to spend 25% of local revenue on content

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 2:01 pmWednesday, January 15, 20209 Comments

France is finalizing a bill to force video-on-demand services from Apple, Netflix, Disney, Amazon and others to invest at least 25% of their revenue…

Netflix may be preparing to raise prices

Monday, May 15, 2017 12:01 pmMonday, May 15, 20179 Comments

Start saving those pennies, Netflix users…

New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data

Friday, December 9, 2016 4:46 pmFriday, December 9, 201628 Comments

Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…

Apple to buy Netflix?

Friday, May 27, 2016 10:35 am24 Comments

You never know…

Should Apple buy Netflix for $53 billion?

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 6:19 pm30 Comments

With the recent cratering of Apple’s stock price, armchair financial pundits are speculating…

Can Tim Cook and company raise the shroud over Apple shares?

Sunday, May 8, 2016 11:36 amSunday, May 8, 201627 Comments

The fact that Apple closed out last week at the lowest point it has since June of 2014 is not news to any long-suffering shareholder…

Why Apple, Fox News, and Microsoft are suddenly working together

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:58 pmTuesday, December 16, 201414 Comments

It’s not every day you see Microsoft and Apple or Fox News and NPR going to bat…

Apple supports Microsoft in U.S. data-privacy dispute

Monday, December 15, 2014 4:56 pmMonday, December 15, 20147 Comments

Some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Apple Inc…

Cook, Zuckerberg, Mayer, other tech CEOs ask U.S. Senate to restrict U.S. spying

Thursday, June 5, 2014 8:59 amThursday, June 5, 20147 Comments

A group of prominent technology company CEOs, including the most prominent, Apple CEO Tim Cook…

Tim Cook likely to be asked to testify at NSA case in Germany

Friday, May 23, 2014 4:02 pmFriday, May 23, 20148 Comments

German lawmakers may call the heads of the largest U.S. technology companies…

How the NSA tapped AT&T’s network

Friday, May 23, 2014 3:01 pmFriday, May 23, 201426 Comments

In 2002, an AT&T technician named Mark Klein discovered that the National Security Agency had installed a secret monitoring facility…

U.S. House passes bill to curb NSA data collection programs

Friday, May 23, 2014 9:05 am22 Comments

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to curb some National Security Agency powers…

U.S. House passes bill to curb NSA’s data collection programs; Apple opposes over ‘unacceptable loophole ‘

Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:01 pm12 Comments

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to curb some National Security Agency powers…

Apple to government authorities: ‘Show warrant to get data’

Friday, May 9, 2014 6:02 pmFriday, May 9, 201424 Comments

Apple will let its customers know if a government or law enforcement agency has requested information…

Apple, others to defy U.S. government authorities, notify customers of secret data demands

Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:54 pmThursday, May 1, 201433 Comments

U.S. tech companies will ignore the instructions stamped on the fronts of subpoenas…

As U.S. government discusses expanding digital searches, ACLU sounds caution

Monday, April 7, 2014 9:46 pmMonday, April 7, 201420 Comments

Late last month, we reported on new federal efforts to gain an expanded ability…

Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA spying

Friday, March 21, 2014 2:02 pmThursday, May 1, 201415 Comments

Top executives from Facebook, Google and other tech giants will…

Apple co-founder Woz and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee voice support for Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing

Thursday, March 13, 2014 2:59 pmThursday, March 13, 201420 Comments

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee…

US NSA used Facebook to hack into computers

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:25 pm29 Comments

The National Security Agency is breaking into…

Rand Paul: ‘What you do on your cellphone is none of their damned business!’

Saturday, March 8, 2014 11:04 amSaturday, March 8, 2014101 Comments

Paul put his concerns about the NSA on front pages with a class-action lawsuit…

Orwellian: UK government, with aid from US NSA, intercepted webcam images from millions of users

Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:57 am35 Comments

Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency…

Twitter threatens to sue Obama administration over government surveillance requests

Friday, February 7, 2014 8:34 am19 Comments

Twitter says it is prepared to sue the Obama administration…

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:28 pmWednesday, January 29, 201457 Comments

A Norwegian member of parliament nominated former U.S. National Security Agency…

U.S. NSA watching, tracking phone users with Google Maps

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:29 pmTuesday, January 28, 201418 Comments

The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been…

Apple issues update on U.S. NSA and law enforcement orders

Monday, January 27, 2014 11:51 pmMonday, January 27, 201423 Comments

Apple Inc. has released the following statement…

Apple’s Tim Cook on U.S government surveillance: ‘There is no back door, the government doesn’t have access to our servers’

Friday, January 24, 2014 4:25 pmFriday, January 24, 201432 Comments

Cook touches on his concerns regarding the NSA and their deeply controversial PRISM surveillance program…