The Daily Populous

Saturday July 1st, 2017 morning edition

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As of the first quarter of 2017, Netflix has just shy of 99 million subscribers.

It added 5 million subscriber's in this year's first quarter making it the leading streaming service.

The company is currently leading the charge over competitors such as Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video.

The company does not offer advertising space to marketers, nor does it offer differently priced tiers of content to subscribers.

Securing licensing agreements with TV networks, filmmakers, and other content owners is arguably the greatest expense for Netflix.

The full series of "Lost" cost the company $45 million, "Scrubs" came in at $26 million and "Desperate Housewives" totaled $12 million for a single year.

It compares this metric to similar content arrangements, and it bases final pricing on exclusivity and the time frame of the contract. »

France's Marine Le Pen charged over funding scandal

Authored by bbc.com

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been placed under formal investigation over an alleged European parliament funding scandal.

Ms Le Pen, 48, has also denied any wrongdoing and has said the case is politically motivated.

Ms Le Pen was soundly beaten by Emmanuel Macron, by 66% to 34%. »

The blue wings of this dragonfly may be surprisingly alive

Authored by sciencenews.org

So what in the world were tiny respiratory channels doing in a wing membrane of a morpho dragonfly?.

Guillermo Ferreira, then at Kiel University in Germany, showed the image to a colleague who also was “shocked,” he remembers.

The shimmering, bluest-of-skies wings of male Zenithoptera dragonflies might be unexpectedly and fully alive, Guillermo Ferreira says. »

Tim Hortons celebrates 50 years of exploiting national identity for profit

Authored by thebeaverton.com

HAMILTON, ON – International restaurant chain Tim Hortons is celebrating 50 years of instilling and manipulating contrived patriotic sentiment in Canadian consumers towards their brand coffee and donuts for the benefit of their global shareholders.

“Tim Hortons was the first to realize that Canada’s inherent lack of a shared definition of national identity allowed room for a business that is wholly uninterested in anything other than making money, to insert itself as a patriotic placeholder through a well thought-out media strategy,” Hanson continued.

This comes at a time when Tim Hortons is struggling to make inroads into the U.S. market. »