Amazon is rethinking its grocery business: The retailer is putting Fresh expansion on hold as it tries to strike a balance between innovation and value.
Slowing consumer demand rocks tech’s ivory tower: Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon turned in disappointing quarterly earnings. Expect further austerity measures, including layoffs, which could prove costly.
Over the past year, retail has pushed further into healthcare for two reasons: more customers and more money. The usual suspects (e.g., CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid) are all making investments in their healthcare offerings, but Amazon is on their heels.
Adversarial relationship with China is bad for tech: Retaliation by Beijing shouldn’t surprise us as Biden eyes more tech sanctions and a US general starts preparing for war.
Alphabet leans on DeepMind for AI support: Google is scrambling to please investors and keep pace with Microsoft’s generative AI ambitions, but sacrificing safeguards might be a mistake longer term.
Search seems like a good bet for disruption—sooner rather than later.
The Nike-lululemon rivalry rages on: This time, Nike is suing lululemon for infringing on its footwear patents.
Ingenico and Splitit are focused on cutting customer friction to grow their in-store BNPL presence.
On today's episode, we discuss how much Netflix's new ad tier has helped subscriber growth, how the impending launch of its password-sharing initiative will play out, and what happens now that Reed Hastings has stepped down as CEO. "In Other News," we talk about how Peacock can right the ship and how many streaming services the average American subscribes to. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Daniel Konstantinovic and Paul Verna.
Focusing on culture, values, and relationships will help bring in new employees. And tech investment won’t just benefit customers.
Their earnings largely reflected the same results as US banks reported, though their profits weren’t hit as hard by loss provisions.
LevelField’s acquisition of an FDIC-insured bank likely won’t be enough to harmonize digital and traditional assets.
Can Google coast comfortably through a challenging 2023? The search and advertising giant’s Q4 foreshadows slow growth, revealing cracks in its empire.
TikTok is competing with just about everyone, according to our analyst Jasmine Enberg. Its lower costs per thousand are helping it pull ad share away from platforms like Meta, while its appeal to Gen Z consumers is pulling search dollars away from Google and Amazon. But it can play nice too, a strategy the platform has had to adopt in Washington to avoid a total US ban.
Gen Alpha is still a nascent generation, but technology is already a constant in their lives: 36.0 million US children are active internet users, exceeding teen internet users by 11.4 million, per our forecast. This is the data you need to understand the future Gen Alpha.