Netflix rebranded the rental service as DVD.com — a prosaic name that was ... end coming as they noticed the shrinking selection in a library that once boasted more than 100,000 titles.

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 has reported a surge of subscribers to 117m in 2017, which it's put down to interest in its original content. The company has come a long way since its start as an online DVD rental ...

In 1998, an upstart company decided to offer a way for people to rent DVD (and later Blu-ray) discs for a monthly fee, with no late fees. It was called Netflix, and that business model slowly but ...

Ruscio/Getty Images/Netflix 1998: Netflix launches a DVD-by-mail rental service. That same year, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos offers to buy the company. Charles Krupa/AP In his book ...

Netflix has reported a surge of subscribers to 117m in 2017, which it's put down to interest in its original content. The company has come a long way since its start as an online DVD rental ...