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Relativity Media Adding Premium Content to Netflix, Daily Deals Landing on Twitter

by Warren Riddle on July 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM

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Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • Netflix has already bolstered its streaming catalog with the premium network Starz Play service, and a new deal with Relativity Media, which should continue to pressure movie channels like HBO and Showtime, now gives Netflix broadcasting rights to a growing library of recently released content. The first Relativity titles to appear will reportedly include 'Season of the Witch' with Nicolas Cage and 'The Fighter' with Christian Bale. [From: Paid Content and Engadget]
  • Twitter's recent additions of an @anywhere feature and a "promoted tweets" scheme both generate needed revenue for the site. A new "Early Bird" daily deal should help build on that successful pattern, but if you want to find out specific information, Twitter PR has reportedly stated, "Keep waking up early, and you might be the first to find out what they are." [From: Business Insider]
  • The robot and acronym wizards at DARPA, who previously unleashed the GUARD-DOG (Analysis for Rapid Detection - Deployed on the Ground) and RATS (Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech), are appealing to both biologists and comic nerds with two new creations. The group's BaTMAN (Biochronicity and Temporal Mechanisms Arising in Nature) will study "the spatio-temporal universe," while its RoBIN (Robustness of Biologically Inspired Networks) will investigate human behavior and "biological design principles." [From: Wired]
  • Foursquare's recent privacy debacle certainly hasn't tempered user enthusiasm, as the site experienced its first "million-check in" day last Friday. Then it promptly happened again on Saturday. For Foursquare to host 1 million user check-ins during a single day, an average of 11.58 must occur every second. [From: Geekosystem]
  • The witty and wily Woot crew increasingly cements itself as one of the Web's most admirable and hilarious group of merry pranksters. After the Associated Press apparently lifted comments pertaining to Woot's recent Amazon deal from the Woot blog, the online retailer required the AP to adhere to its own quotation-payment plan. Woot is charging those staid old scriveners $17.50 for the used material, but is also willing to waive that debt if the AP produces an "email receipt from today's two pack of Sennheiser MX400 In-Ear headphones." [From: Tech Crunch]
  • Despite a recent admission of MySpace failure from chief Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. is reportedly soliciting major corporations for advertising help. A current deal with Google ends in August, and News Corp. hopes someone, specifically Google, Microsoft or Yahoo!, can help to fill the void. [From: Reuters]

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