Tagged “business”
Stitcher shuts down as podcast industry loses luster
bad month for podcast apps
Understanding Netflix
Netflix’s ostensible goal is to win the Moment of Truth: when you’re home from work and too tired to do anything but vegetate, are they your first choice?
Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
Exclusive: Shell pivots back to oil to win over investors -sources
The multinational companies that industrialised the Amazon rainforest
‘Crown jewel’: Moccona’s $22b maker sues Australia’s Vittoria over glass jar
seems like a lot more emphasis on the jar than the contents.
This billion-dollar-selling toy was inspired by heat pumps
Super-soaker and NERF gun inventor now working on some kind of solid-state power.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Judo Strategy
From 1999, on the Netscape-Microsoft browser wars.
Beyond Meat’s Very Real Problems: Slumping Sausages, Mounting Losses
I had thought there was some large technical/scaling challenge (there still are), but much of this reads like plain old stretching too thin.
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
12 Predictions for the Future of Music
Rise of holograms, deepfakes, so more ongoing fame for existing artists. Decline of labels, consolidation of the remaining power/profit in that business to fewer and fewer people.
The “official industry figures” will show that the music business is growing, but these numbers will be highly misleading. A huge portion of “music profits” will actually go to tech companies (Apple, Google, etc.), who have no interest in reinvesting this cash into the music ecosystem. For example, Spotify will take the cash flow generated by music and use it to acquire rights to podcasts, etc.—and, in general, the music culture will be starved of funds because it now must pay the bills for other businesses
The Business Innovation of Star Trek
Constrain the infinite vastness of space to the bridge of a single ship
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