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Selim Bassoul, chief executive of Middleby Corp.[stckqut]MIDD[/stckqut], is on a frantic quest to become king of the upscale kitchen range.

Over the past three years, his Elgin, Ill., company has bought three of the world’s most prominent cooking brands: Viking Range, AGA and La Cornue. It also has suffered a bit of indigestion.

“We’re becoming the leading high-end appliance [maker] in the world,” Mr. Bassoul boasted while speed-walking across the floor of his Viking plant here. Long a big supplier of commercial food-processing equipment, Middleby is rapidly expanding to home ovens, refrigerators and other kitchen gear where Mr. Bassoul believes he can add more sophisticated technology and raise profit margins.

Source: Middleby Chases Fame in the Kitchen – WSJ

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Netflix [stckqut]NFLX[/stckqut], had a rough couple of days. The streaming media company met its projected third-quarter $0.07 earnings per share but missed on its projected revenue figures, generating $1.738 billion instead of the estimated $1.743 billion. After-hours trading was impacted negatively by the news, trading down 10% at one point, while investors had a mixed array of thoughts.

Netflix subscriber figures were not promising as well. Domestically, the company added only 880,000 new members, compared to the more promising international addition of 2.74 million. This comes to a total of 3.62 million new Netflix members, which is a marginal increase from the year-to-year figure of 3.02 million combined.

New US subscribers, however, have been on the decline since the company’s 2015 first-quarter and may very well plateau sooner than later, despite their projected 1.65 new members for the 2015 fourth-quarter.

Source: The Netflix Tipping Point