Spotify presently allows artists to buy a full-screen ‘recommendation’ promoting their latest album
Spotify lately added a feature that will irregularly pop up a full-screen recommendation of a new album the service believes you will like. More About The New Feature It is based on a blend of your listening taste and individual curation. Now, it is going...
Apple TV app appears on Amazon’s Fire TV Stick and other additional devices
Before the launch of Apple TV+ on November 1, Apple’s Apple TV app has started to roll out to different platforms surpassing Apple’s own streaming media player, Mac computers and iOS devices. For example, earlier this month, the app appeared on Roku devices. Apple’s TV...
Stewart Butterfield states Microsoft views Slack as an existential threat
In a wide-ranging conversation with The Wall Street Journal’s global technology editor Jason Dean, Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield had some powerful words about Microsoft. Announcing the software giant viewed his company as an existential threat. The interview was held at the WSJ Tech...
Nielsen states it can presently measure Amazon Prime Video
Nielsen declared it will now be equipped to measure the viewing going on Amazon Prime Video, by its Subscription Video on Demand Content Rating solution. This product, originally started two years ago, was focused on measuring Netflix’s viewing numbers with hopes to add help for...
DoorDash, presently estimated at $12.6B, shoots for the moon
Five years ago, Sequoia partner Alfred Lin called Tony Xu, the originator of a small on-demand delivery startup named DoorDash, said he was moving on the company’s seed round. Of course, this was, before venture capital funding in food delivery startups had taken off. DoorDash...
Netflix Q3 incomes surpass estimates, despite failing US subscriber growth
Netflix’s Q3 business report has given the company’s stock a lift in after-hours trading, with earnings significantly surpassing analyst expectations. The streaming giant announced profits of $5.24 billion, up 31% year-over-year and more or less in order with the predictions of $5.25 billion. More impressively,...
Twitch appoints ex Zynga exec Doug Scott as the chief marketing officer
Amazon-owned game streaming service Twitch has announced that it has snagged Zynga’s chief marketing officer, Doug Scott, to join as its CMO. The Story of Doug Scott At Zynga, Scott managed global marketing for merely over three years. Earlier to that, he was CMO at...
Netflix to allocate $2 billion in debt to finance more content spending
For the second time this year, Netflix is giving $2 billion in debt to finance its investment in content. This includes new programming, content purchases, investments and more. The news was published on Monday morning and was accompanied by a small dip in Netflix’s stock...
Millions downloaded loads of Android apps from Google Play that were affected with adware
Safety researchers have discovered dozens of Android apps in the Google Play store serving ads to innocent victims as part of a money-making plan. ESET researchers saw 42 apps carrying adware, which they say have been downloaded more than 8 million times after they first...
Bill McDermott moves down as SAP’s CEO
Introduction SAP today announced that Bill McDermott, their CEO for the past nine years, is stepping down instantly. The company states he chose not to restore his contract. SAP Executive Board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein have been elected as co-CEOs. The Story of...
