Netflix is responding to Amazon.com’s competing streaming video service by offering a new, lower-priced plan. The streaming media giant is testing a discount plan for new subscribers priced more closely to the subscription service offered by Amazon (AMZN), the world’s leading online retailer. Netflix (NFLX) will offer new subscribers a plan in which they would pay $6.99 a month for streaming to one device at a time. The plan will be
The 3D printing industry burst into the mainstream in 2013, but its backers say: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The innovation on the drawing board for this fast-emerging type of manufacturing is amazing, and a little frightening. How about 3D printers making … food? If that’s not wild enough for you, how about printers being used to make major bodily organs? 3D Systems (DDD), founded in 1986, pioneered the industry. It initially developed
As the new year turns, investors, physicians and patients alike will be waiting eagerly for Bristol-Myers Squibb to report results from the latest trial of drug candidate nivolumab. The trial, studying patients with a virulent disease called squamous non-small-cell lung cancer, is just a phase two trial, and it normally requires three rounds before a company will file for approval. But previous results were so strong, and the other