When Netflix first launched in the late 1990s, it exclusively shipped DVDs to homes around the United States. Within a decade, it branched out to online streaming, and now it's one of the biggest ...

Netflix’s signature red envelopes have finally reached their end. After 25 years of sending discs of movies and TV shows to people through the mail, Netflix is discontinuing the DVD subscription ...

Netflix is poised to shut down the DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for its trailblazing video streaming service, ending an era that began 25 years ago when delivering discs through ...

In 1998, an upstart company decided to offer a way for people to rent DVD ... about Netflix's disc rental business. In its lifetime, it shipped over 5.2 billion discs in the mail.

When I was in college I had several friends who had subscriptions to this new kind of video rental company called Netflix. Back when it first started Netflix offered to send DVDs in the mail. You ...

In more than 120 slides, Netflix broke down its management and cultural philosophy to prepare potential recruits for what it would be like to work with the then DVD-by-mail operation. The ...

In recent months, Netflix made big changes to its service offerings. First, a 60-percent price hike, then an announcement that it was spinning its DVD mail service into a new company called Qwikster, ...