Tag archive: LoveFilm

After announcing a 2012 launch back in October, online movie and TV rental service Netflix has launched in the UK, becoming a direct competitor to LoveFilm, a company owned by Amazon. However, Netflix will only offer online streaming to UK customers, leaving the DVD-by-post market to LoveFilm. While accounts can now be created, Neflix hasn't made its official announcement yet, but is expected to do so later today. Netflix will offer a… Read More

As U.S. Netflix customers' complaints rise to a clamor over the recent pricing hikes, the company is busy looking at the big picture with an aggressive international expansion plan that may even include Europe by 2012. Netflix earlier this month announced that they would be launching their services in 43 countries by the end of 2011; a campaign focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. This moved surprised some analysts who expected… Read More

Amazon.com has announced it will be acquiring full control of European DVD and streaming video service Lovefilm for an undisclosed amount. Lovefilm operates a Netflix-like DVD-by-mail operation in Europe, and like Netflix has recently entered the streaming video marketplace to PCs, the PlayStation 3, and selected Internet-enabled televisions. Amazon previously controlled 42 percent of the company; part of that ownership stake had to do with… Read More

It’s February, almost Valentine’s Day, so it’s perhaps apt that Amazon has fallen for LoveFilm. Thecompany is making a cash investment in the online video rental service, large enough to become its biggest shareholder, and in return LoveFilm will take over the DVD rental business currently run byAmazon in both the UK and Germany, Vnunet reports.   Simon Calver, CEO at LoveFilm, said,   "LoveFilm International… Read More