The World Cup gives ad spending an end-of-year-boost: The soccer (or is it football?) tournament is a hot spot for ad spend, but isn’t without its serious controversies.
Extra, extra, read all about it: Newsletters and the platforms that house them have had a strong few years. But with churn and tech layoffs, can they keep up?
Google Cloud bets big on Japan: The company will build its first data center on the island next year. Japan’s history, aspirations, and shortcomings makes it ripe for cloud expansion.
The chip ban might not work: China may have options to circumvent the US export ban. Meanwhile, semiconductor companies are bleeding and the ban’s benefit to national security remains dubious.
Wall Street’s biggest banks are likely to suffer from the slowdown in M&A, shrinking profits, and could set aside $4.5B to cover bad debt losses.
They see big opportunities in the cloud and with artificial intelligence. But big opportunities don’t come without big challenges.
After billions of dollars in losses, Marcus’ products will shift to the wealth and asset management businesses.
Advertisers saw higher ROAS from Walmart than Amazon in Q2: But the ecommerce giant continues to attract the lion’s share of retail media spend.
Colassano noted similarities between TCH’s RTP network pricing and FedNow’s and discussed real-time payment innovations.
TikTok takes a page from Instagram’s playbook: The ability to post photos and images could catch on—or could show that copycatting doesn’t pay.
The Cyber Five period used to be the kickoff to the holiday shopping season. But this year, Amazon’s October Prime Day event could take away from Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, according to Adobe.
A robot might deliver your next order of pad thai: Several companies are eager to see if delivery robots are a gimmick or the next big technological innovation.
A railroad worker union rejected a Biden-brokered labor agreement: That raises the prospect of a nationwide rail strike, which could derail the US economy during the crucial holiday season.
BNPL providers must develop consumer rewards programs to effectively compete within consumer payments.
A longer-than-ever holiday season is hurting advertising: Ad effectiveness gets diluted by an endlessly long shopping season that only starts earlier every year.