PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Applications
Snap presented yesterday a set of excellent 2Q19 results, that are pushing up the company’s share price (+12% after hours). The big driver was a +8% annual increase in daily active…
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E-Commerce
Currently under regulatory scrutiny on the (potential) use of their dominant position as an e-commerce platform to build their own products, Amazon has now been revealed to have a program for third…
Enterprise — Cloud
IBM has announced a big cloud deal (“worth billions”) with AT&T, that would include the shift of the carrier’s systems to the cloud, and would leverage the recent acquisition of…
Advertising
Leading Private Equity fund Blackstone is spending more than $750m to acquire Vungle, a mobile video ad startup with an in-app technology currently used by more than 60,000 mobile apps…
Content
A top product executive at TiVo identifies opportunities for startups to develop applications for the entertainment industry, linked to the need of enablers for the increasingly dominant…
Video
The battle for streaming video, which is expected to heat up in the coming months with the launch of new services by Disney and WarnerMedia (AT&T), could lead content creators to spend as…
Content wars are about to become more intense for video streaming applications, as a logical consequence of the increasing competition in the market, with both Disney and AT&T’s Warner…
Connectivity
Spotify is launching a “lite” version of its smartphone app, targeting markets where mobile connectivity is weak, or coverage is patchy. They’re launching this in 36 countries…
In the US, a new non-for-profit startup (Locast) is offering free broadcast TV content through the internet. Apparently some PayTV companies, like Dish or AT&T are funding the company, as it…
Chinese group ByteDance’s app, TikTok, which is capturing massive audience globally with its short-video-clips format, is now preparing to steal advertising market share from direct…