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Better way. reporter: in 1997 he founded netflix, a dvd by mail company. the little red envelopes would eventually contribute to blockbuster s downfall, and in a move that changed how we watch television, netflix began offering on-demand streaming. can watch more, watch on your schedule. reporter: hastings s journey isn t without missteps. in 2011, price hikes and plans to spin off its dvd business. named our dvd service quickster. causing a flood of cancellations and sent the stock price tumbling, but hastings back tracked and apologized to ku69 mer and now their stock is at an all-time high. 44 million subscribers and counting. a lot of that growth is thanks to the popularity of its original series. welcome back. reporter: with a huge chunk of subscribers watching house of cards season two. so help me god. reporter: and the company s fearless leader, rewarded with a 50% pay bump this year. a $3 million salary plus $3 ....
Behavior. on facebook you have to accept people. people can see what you write unless you shut them out. it left users feeling less safe. in an interview with matt lauer he said he wants twitter to be a, quote, clean, well lit place. that doesn t allow for that if you have to see all of this hate . so does twitter at least deserve credit for reaccount aing quickly to this on-line revolt i would call it? sure, if you look at netflix do you remember when it said it would change to quickster? everybody went craze tee and it took three weeks to reverse. facebook it took days when there was a beheading video that they allowed to show to reverse policy and take it down. that s what has changed in the world. you can t wait a week and have meetings. the on-line world moves quickly. you can block who you want. ....
Behavior. on facebook you have to accept people. people can see what you write unless you shut them out. it left users feeling less safe. in an interview with matt lauer he said he wants twitter to be a, quote, clean, well lit place. that doesn t allow for that if you have to see all of this hate . so does twitter at least deserve credit for reaccount aing quickly to this on-line revolt i would call it? sure, if you look at netflix do you remember when it said it would change to quickster? everybody went craze tee and it took three weeks to reverse. facebook it took days when there was a beheading video that they allowed to show to reverse policy and take it down. that s what has changed in the world. you can t wait a week and have meetings. the on-line world moves quickly. you can block who you want. ....
Quarter. i ll tell you what. what a stellar quarter it s been. look at the dow up 11% since the beginning of the year. the nasdaq is higher. the s&p 500 is up 10%. you know, this market really seemed to be riding a nice wave even when there is bad news to turn the market around the market shrugged it off. so for now the path of least resistance seems to be upward. helping stocks in the first quarter definitely netflix. if you own netflix you re doing pretty well. shares have more than doubled in value since the beginning of the year. shares are up 105%, taking into account today s close plus analysts are getting more and more optimistic about the company s growth prospects. all right. alison, thank you. netflix financial success is largely credited to its new business model. no, it s not quickster. remember that? that s just a vague memory of the old netflix. but the new netflix drops 100 million bucks to create the tv show house of cards. and they re ready for more. they just ann ....
so, we had newt gingrich and mitt romney. both on the offensive over the last 24 hours. they know that six days is a short time and that s when the caucuses are. what have we been hearing from both of the candidates, mark? well, hala, you re absolutely right. so much on the line, so much at stake here. six days until january 3rd when iowa republicans will caucus and will really kick off what has been already a very long presidential season. well, newt gingrich had pledged not to go negative in this campaign. he had said that he would only go positive and talk about his plan to try to turn the american economy around. well, the gloves have come off and, in fact, he is going negative. yesterday on the situation room with wolf blitzer, he went right after mitt romney. in fact, let s listen to what newt gingrich had to say. all i say mitt is, if you want to run a negative campaign and you want to attack people, at least be man enough to own it. that s your staff and t ....