Blockbuster Not Dead Yet
One can’t give all the credit for Blockbuster’s acquisition of Movielink, a movie download site, to newly appointed CEO Jim Keyes. Those discussions started back in March. But I gotta think a fresh start in negotiations helped, not to mention a fresh outlook on Blockbuster’s future. I don’t know former BBI CEO John Antioco at all, but I’ve read about his reputation. He didn’t seem very, um, accommodating.
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[...] rather, the company is making it so you don’t have to. Remember when BBI bought Movielink last August? Now we know what it plans to do with it. Blockbuster is working on set-top device to stream movies [...]