Tag: business models

• Pandemic Turns China’s Local Leaders Into Livestreamers

  May 1, 2020

  This warm salutation comes not from a seasoned online broadcaster, but from a 49-year-old rural official hoping to sell some sweet potatoes to his audience. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005557/pandemic-turns-chinas-local-leaders-into-livestreamers more ›

• Amazon Pushes Into Making Video Games, Not Just Streaming Their Play

  April 29, 2020

  The internet giant is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the effort, with its first original game, Crucible, to be released next month. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/amazon-making-video-games.html more ›

• Magic Leap’s $2.6 billion bait and switch

  April 28, 2020

  Two years ago I attended an “Innovation in Immersive Storytelling” event at Industrial Light & Magic, featuring the Chief Game Wizard of Magic Leap. I should have known then, from… more ›

• Chapter 2: Money, Credit, and Debt

  April 25, 2020

  Note: To make this an easier and shorter article to read, I tried to convey the most important points in simple language and bolded them, so you can get the… more ›

• IT’S TIME TO BUILD

  April 22, 2020

  Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not… more ›

• Things to know in CTV, today.

  March 23, 2020

  Like many people in digital advertising, my background is in press, display, video, mobile & not linear television. However, I recently shared a streaming LUMAscape slide via LinkedIn that has… more ›

• Tikked off: What happens when TikTok fame fades

  February 29, 2020

  As he was entering his junior year of high school last August, 16-year-old Sam Benarroch had about 166,000 followers on TikTok. It wasn’t the sort of following that regularly turned… more ›

• Pompeo in Senegal: Africa caught in US-China trade war

  February 17, 2020

  Mike Pompeo has arrived in Senegal on his first trip to Africa as US secretary of state. He is expected to discuss security and economic cooperation with President Macky Sall.… more ›

• China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.

  February 17, 2020

  This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and the Pulitzer Center. The Amazon tends to evoke an Edenic vision—of a mysterious and impenetrable land, pregnant with beasts from jaguars… more ›

• Shopify, the e-commerce company that’s coming for Amazon

  January 28, 2020

  When YouTube stars and fashion influencers Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson announced a limited-edition makeup collaboration in fall 2019, the potential for the sale to set records wasn’t hyperbole. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/23/21075314/shopify-ecommerce-jeffree-star-shane-dawson-kylie-jenner-allbirds more ›