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Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Kintanilla with John Ford and Dear Grosso.

Today, a red light or a green light for investors. We're going to debate Netflix's results and its status as a volume shooter.

Then Facebook changing its name, some of our best ideas that

don't include the word the. Later on, the creator of the iPod and the iPhone, Tony Fidel

will tell us who is actually winning right now in Hardware, D.

Carl, we're also as always keeping our eye on stocks this morning. Major Index is back to record

highs, although tech is lagging. The now stack, though, still on pace for its sixth straight day of gains of about one-tenth of a percent. The S&P, meanwhile, on track for its largest monthly gain since last November. More on tech's biggest movers throughout the hour, including, of course, we can't get away from Netflix, John. Yeah, that's where we're going to start the feed this morning. A Netflix beat, just the second time in the last seven quarters.

Julia Borson's got more color on that subgrowth number. Julia?

Well, John, third quarter subscriber growth of 4.4 million beat the company's guidance by

nearly a million and fourth quarter guidance

for 8.5 million new subscribers that was right in line with expectations. Now, the stock

initially popped and then gave up gains as investors digested some signs of weakness. Now,

in the U.S. and Canada, it added only 70,000 new subscribers. And in Latin America, user growth slowed showing signs of

saturation in those two key markets. Now, fourth quarter earnings guidance did fall short of

expectations, 80 cents per share rather than the dollar 10 that analysts had anticipated. But co-CEO

Reid Hastings, who is wearing a squid game track suit during the

video call last night, he focused on the volume of premium content coming to the platform

and more opportunities to make money from Netflix franchises.

Imagine three years from now and, you know, some future Squid Game is launching and it comes along,

you know, with an incredible array of interactive or gaming options and it's all built into the service.

And then of course you've got your off Netflix aspects, the experiences that we're building out,

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