Overstock.com Announces Streaming Video Service, And Expansion

Utah Public Radio | By Kerry Bringhurst

Published January 23, 2015 at 4:04 PM MST

Overstock.com announced this week that the online retailer will offer customers a streaming-video service sometime this year. UPR spoke with company chairman, Jonathan Johnson, about the new service. Johnson said the company is also planning to extend Overstock products to customers in China.

In February 2014 Overstock.com announced the company would begin accepting bitcoins. Kerry Bringhurst asked Johnson if the use of this crypto-currency is growing.

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Kerry Bringhurst

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.

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