Can Meta sustain its VR headset dominance? It has 90% market share, but its Horizon Worlds metaverse apps are only accessible in the US and Canada, leaving room for new entrants to compete.
Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision Blizzard faces fresh scrutiny: UK’s antitrust regulator is examining whether the deal will stifle competition in the latest challenge to the $68.7 billion acquisition.
Roaming robotic EV charging: A mobile bot is under development to provide a new way to charge EVs. It isn’t likely to replace standard charging stations but could expand charging access.
Travel tanked in 2020, as the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shaved US digital travel sales by 50.0%. This is the first year sales will pass what they were in 2019, and the number of digital travel bookers in the US won’t return to what it was in 2019 until 2024.
On today's episode, we discuss how Twitter could reinvent itself to become a new social network model, what its current to-do list looks like, and whether it would make sense to can some of its more recent initiatives. "In Other News," we talk about what Sheryl Sandberg leaving Meta means for the company and the significance of a YouTube Shorts milestone. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Debra Aho Williamson.
Do subscriptions make sense for Snap? The social and AR leader is launching a new subscription service that offers extra bells and whistles.
Here’s a roundup of the outcomes from recent regulatory efforts within the US and Europe.
Meta’s going back to basics: The social giant is one of many major companies tasked with focusing on key priorities in the second half of the year.
Klarna is staring down a potential 85% valuation cut—here’s what fintechs will have to contend with in H2.
More supply chain disruptions could be coming: West Coast dockworkers’ collective bargaining agreement expired Friday, which means they could walk off the job at any time.
Netflix’s June downloads suggest a rocky second half to 2022: App downloads were 5% lower than last year and down 13% in US/Canada.
Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency challenges are mounting: German authorities are the latest to take issue with the policy’s monopolistic qualities.
In April, Elon Musk entered an agreement with Twitter to buy the platform for roughly $44 billion.