Netflix and Time Warner have come to an agreement to bring certain shows from the CW network to Netflix. Starting on Saturday October 15, eight programs such as The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl and The Secret Circle will be available to watch instantly from Netflix. The deal will last four years. According to the New York Times, this new licensing deal is worth $1 billion.

Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission sent a letter to AT&T to inform the company that two of its proposed acquisitions will be examined jointly and not separate. Those two acquisitions are for T-Mobile USA and Qualcomm’s Lower 700 MHz D spectrum licenses. Qualcomm announced it was selling these licenses to AT&T in December 2010, but it hasn’t been approved by the FCC yet.

When Amazon released its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player for Android, it was met with a little bit of backlash. Amazon had not secured all the necessary licenses from record companies to make their music a part of Amazon’s new service. Amazon didn’t feel that it needed those licenses before launching Cloud Drive. The questionable legalities of Amazon’s actions is an issue to some, but you can’t argue with results. By cutting through the red tape and beating competition to market, Amazon has seen an increase in MP3 sales.

$899 million euros or $1.4 billion is definitely a huge sum of money and it seems like Microsoft would not just want to lose that amount over an anti-trust ruling that the EU has slapped Microsoft in February 2007. The fine was a result of a case filed against Microsoft for failing to comply with a 2004 ruling. So, Microsoft is appealing the EU ruling and hoping against all hopes that the EU would heed its plea to overturn the ruling or at least reduce the fine.

If you recall, sometime in 2004, the EU slapped Microsoft with a $768 million fine after it failed to comply with an anti-trust ruling that ordered Microsoft to provide rival companies with data that would allow their servers to connect to the Windows platform which was the predominantly used operating systems in majority of the PCs in 2004. In return, Microsoft is allowed to charge reasonable royalties for giving rival companies access to its Windows Platform.