Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, January 18th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Netflix starts to open up, Cortana stops competing,

Gagit reviews now include shoes as a category,

and of course the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Tech earnings season is back and first out of the gate,

Netflix reported mixed Q4 earnings last night with revenue of $4.19 billion

versus $4.21 billion originally estimated.

But the company said it added $.8 million global paid memberships up from its own estimate of 7.6 million.

In total, Netflix added 29 million paid subscribers over its full year 2018 a 33% increase over the 22

million subscribers had added in 2017 the stock was down this morning, but not terribly so.

What was interesting from last night's report, though, is that maybe because of the complicated

year it's expecting to have as competition rises to the fore.

For the first time, Netflix is beginning to be forthcoming about other numbers.

For example, Netflix said it estimates that in the U.S. alone, it is responsible

for 10% of total television screen time.

It once again touted viewership numbers for Bird Box saying 80 million households have watched the

Sandra Bullock blindfold meme, I mean movie.

Netflix defines you as a viewer of a particular show or movie if you've watched at least 70% of it.

Netflix also touted numbers for other things.

The new shows You and Sex Sex Education Netflix said they should reach

40 million households in the first six weeks that those are on the service.

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