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Disney can only hope that to meet its goal of signing up 12 million subscribers over the next five years. But  if the trends hold, over those same five years a lot more than 12 million will cut the cord.

Amazon has chosen to increase the price of Amazon Prime memberships after reporting a huge quarterly profit.

Amazon announced it needs to hire an additional 2,500 full-time employees at the company’s new fulfillment center in North Texas. The jobs are expected to be available immediately after interviews which begin on Monday.

Nearly a million Brits a year have canceled their BBC TV license for the past four years, with more than 3.5 million doing so since 2013.

Amazon is offering discounted service on its Amazon Prime service to people receiving food stamps or other forms of government assistance.

Cable television is “failing” as a business, according to a cable industry lobbyist, as more and more people switch to streaming services and watching videos on their phones.

Top Gear’s spiritual successor The Grand Tour has become the most illegally downloaded television show in history.

Amazon has released the first footage from its upcoming Woody Allen series Crisis in Six Scenes, a project that Allen himself warned last year could be a “cosmic embarrassment” for the premium streaming service.

Amazon set a quarterly earnings record of $1 a share on $35.7 billion in sales last quarter, but traders sent the stock plunging over 7% Friday after the e-commerce company missed Wall Street’s earnings estimates by 36 percent.

Watch out, GameStop. Amazon has just dropped a deal that could very easily spell the end of midnight launch hype.

The Guardian‘s readership have been giving their views on whether they’d pay £79 a year – $99 in the US – for a subscription which gave them exclusive access to Amazon Prime Instant Video’s new £160 million recruits – former