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Netflix could shed as many as 2.5 million paying customers as a result of its recent move to significantly increase the monthly cost of its DVDs-by-mail rental service.

Netflix released its earnings report for the second quarter today, as well as a 75% year-over-year increase in subscribers, having added 1.8 million in the quarter.

The company has 25.56 million subscribers globally.

Within Netflix, things look much the same today as yesterday.  The company hasn’t been hit by site outages, big resignations, or scandals of any sort.  But Facebook’s decision to let users rent The Dark Knight apparently spooked Netflix shareholders to the point they sent its stock tumbling 5.76 percent.

That’s of course a big, nasty drop.  Then, making matters even worse for Netflix fans, there’s the fact that the Nasdaq rose 0.73 percent today, meaning Netflix’s fall occurred despite a market-wide semi-rally.

The dispute between News Corp. and Cablevision that blacked out Fox programming for more than 3 million subscribers may raise hurdles for Comcast Corp.'s $28 billion deal to take control of NBC Universal.

The Federal Communications Commission said the settlement is its largest ever. To forestall action by the FCC, Verizon Wireless said this month that it would issue refunds, mostly of $2 to $6, to about 15 million subscribers.

Netflix's 11 million subscribers will have to wait nearly an extra month to rent the latest movies by Warner Bros.

With some 11.5 million subscribers playing it worldwide, there is no denying that World of Warcraft is one popular online game.

Nowhere more so than in China, where it has been reported around 5 million of those subscribers are based. It should come as no surprise that not everyone in China is a fan, however.

Unfortunately for game developers Blizzard Entertainment it would appear that the Chinese government might be in the dislike camp, no surprise there then.

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AT&T Inc. said Friday it will buy the assets of Verizon Wireless in 79 mainly rural areas for $2.35 billion, a deal that will affect more than 1 million subscribers.