LoveFilm

...Blunt, who won over film fans with her hilarious performance in The Devil Wears Prada, completed the top ten. Helen Cowley, editor at Lovefilm said: "The poll shows that Butler and Bale have got some real bite in Hollywood. Last...

In this article: Gerard Butler, Hollywood, Christian Bale, New Moon, DVD, Wanted, Emily Blunt, Keira Knightley, and Kate Winslet

...Michael Birch (founder of Bebo), Brent Hoberman (co-founder of LastMinute.com), William Reeve and Alex Chesterman (co-founders of LOVEFiLM) and David Gardner (former COO of Electronic Arts and now CEO of Atari). Playfire lets gamers...

In this article: Atomico Ventures, Sunday Times, Skype, Michael Birch, and RockYou!

...investments from seed through growth stage companies. Current portfolio companies include Adconion, AlertMe, Betfair, Criteo, DimDim, Lovefilm, Moshi Monsters, MOO, NormOxys, Oanda, OpenX, PanGenetics, Telegent and viagogo. Recent exits of...

In this article: Index Ventures, Accel Partners, Electronic Arts, Venture capital, London, Playfish, and Facebook

...include Bebo (sold to AOL for $850m), Betfair (the online betting exchange), 7digital (the online music download service sold to HMV), LOVEFiLM (the home entertainment subscription service) and MySQL (sold to Sun for $1 billion). For more...

In this article: Bling Nation, Balderton Capital, Debit card, Venture capital, Colorado, Mobile payments, MySQL, and Betfair

...UK and German DVD rental businesses. The deal also saw the online retailer take a significant stake in Lovefilm. Through that and organic growth, Lovefilm's total business grew by more than 70 per cent last year. Its household reach in the...

In this article: Netflix, DVD, Customer, UK, Amazon, Customer base, and Revenue

...every UK living room, and is in talks with "a number of consumer electronics companies" to develop a Lovefilm interface for television. Mr Calver said: "Lovefilm is not about rental, it's about providing home entertainment," he says. "We are...

In this article: DVD, Customer, UK, Customer base, Revenue, Cd-rom, and Sky Media

...Amazon and Tesco to attract a new generation of youngsters, a minister said yesterday. They should lend books by post, in the way LoveFilm lends DVDs, and offer loyalty cards to give regular readers free loans. Culture Minister...

In this article: Margaret Hodge, Tesco, Public Library Association, DVD, and Swansea

...our thinking to the boundaries and testing ideas to destruction and, yes, I am thinking about how LoveFilm or Amazon work. What is it about their way of doing things that generates such popularity, wide usage, such customer delight and...

In this article: DVD, IPod, Public Library Association, Bristol, and UK

By Victoria Howley and Kate Holton Lovefilm, the DVD mailorder rental company, is considering launching an initial public offering, two people close to the situation said on Monday. The company is weighing up an IPO among several options...

In this article: KKR, DVD, Silver Lake Partners, Financial Times, and Silver Lake

...to be on course for more than GBP100m this year. If Netflix came to Europe it would takedown Lovefilm in 2.3 seconds. Got lumbered with lovefilm as an existing amazon customer. Customer service poor quickly left for cinemaparadiso.

In this article: DVD, Amazon, Venture capital, Netflix, Europe, and Richmond