Coinstar SPOOKING Investors and 4 Media Titans Making Waves

AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL): Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sites, which are driven mainly by video viewing at YouTube.com, has been ranked as the top online video content property in July with 157 million unique viewers, with Facebook.com (NASDAQ:FB) in second with 53 million, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) with 48.7 million, VEVO with 44.8 million,  and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) sites with 42.7 million, according to comScore.. Almost 36.9 billion video content views occurred during July, with Google Sites obtaining the highest number at 19.6 billion, with AOL following  with 665 million, comScore added. The shares traded up $0.11 (0.33%) recently at $33.51.

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Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX): Following its expansion to Canada, Latin America, UK and Ireland, the company made a recent announcement that it intends to expand the online streaming business to the four Nordic countries of Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland 2012′s end. The shares traded down $0.52 (0.81%) recently at $63.79.

Coinstar, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSTR) beaten-down stock rose up to 10 perncent on Thursday because of a report stating that it discussed selling itself to a private-equity firm as well as a separate disclosure that it intended to buy back shares. Noted for their volatility, shares of the kiosk operator saw a recent gain of 8.3 percent to $52.20. Through Wednesday’s close, the stock had lost nearly one-third of its value since early July, since the slowing growth rate at its key Redbox DVD-rental business began to spark concern in investors. The shares traded up $0.45 (0.87%) recently at $52.33.

Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE:TWC) intends to increase its work force in the Kansas City area by 81 positions, or about 9 percent, Kansas City Business Journal stated yesterday afternoon. The move takes place several weeks following Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) announcement regarding the details of its Google Fiber TV and Internet service in the Kansas City area, the publication mentioned. The shares traded up $0.26 (0.29%) recently at $89.81.

Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH) Chairman Charlie Ergen claims that he needs to find a partner to enter the mobile broadband market and probably will not build a network from the bottom up due to delays from U.S. regulators, according to the Denver Business Journal and the Denver Post, reports Reuters. The shares traded up $0.70 (2.26%) recently at $31.70.

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