you may never knead your wallet again. there s a brand new payment system than your credit card. we re talking about paying with your veins. actually, sort of a pattern in your veins, something i think would be difficult to copy. paying with your veins. here s one of the devices from a swedish start-up company called qwikster. there are other companies that have something similar. what it does, it s a biometric machine. it looks at here s an image what your hand looks like underneath the skin. it s not a fingerprint scanner or palm print scanner, looking at the veins to identify you. everybody has a unique vein pattern like they do with fingerprints. using a very harmless infrared light like on your tv remote control, it scans your veins and gives you clearance. this one has a pin pad on it for
ceo of netflix who first of all said he was sorry for mishandling the recent price increase but it was basically an apology in vain, chris, as the decision to split into the two separate services has really angered subscribers all over again. you have on one hand the dvd service called qwikster, then the streaming service keeping the netflix name. slstor rsz not buying it, subscriber whosz took to the blogs are not buying it either. many of them sayi ining netflix making life more dpoifrl them. there s about 12 million customers and these customers who get both streaming and dvd rentals now say they ll have to visit two web sites to make requests and update their billing information. meantime, citigroup is making a major push to expand its credit card business and i was stunned at the number of offs it made recently. yeah. i don t know about you, but i got an offer, i m sure many got an offer.
certainly having a negative impact in the markets today. as you say, italy, a much, much different and much, much bigger animal than greece. i have to ask you about this netflix story. shares down 7% in yesterday s session. the company s customers are in an uproar. what s going on? reporter: they really are. what s happened at netflix is they have announced they are splitting the company into two portions. the dvd part of the business, which is moving to a new entity called qwikster. the streaming part of the business is remaining with netflix. customers are saying this has been handled very poorly. the announcements were handled poorly. the complaints are really flooding in. it s had a negative impact on the stock. that s really just adding to the woes of this share. back in july, they announced price hikes.