Marketplace Pulse: in a first, Amazon's average cut of each sale reached 51.8% in 2022, up from 48% in 2021, 45.8% in 2020, 40% in 2017, and 35.2% in 2016
Grappling with slowing sales growth and rising costs, Amazon.com Inc. is squeezing more money from the nearly 2 million small businesses … Tweets: @tomgara , @carnage4life , and @astaniscia86 Tweets: ...
An interview with Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff on her frustrations with fragmented efforts to restrain tech companies, privacy, and more
These are uncertain times for Silicon Valley. Tech companies are firing staff who they hired in the pandemic. Tweets: @fatassinari , @sroach_econ , @patrickfrench , @henrymance , @casparhenderson , @...
Spotify plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce, or ~600 jobs, says content and ad head Dawn Ostroff is leaving, and reorganizes its engineering and product units
read the memo CEO Daniel Ek sent to staff Bob Cronin / Newser : Spotify Plans Layoffs, After Boss Concedes Miscalculation Rachyl Jones / Observer : Spotify Will Lay Off 600 Employees, or 6% of its Wor...
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve the platform's nonprofit status
Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter Tweets: @suji_yan , @barbariancap , @wilbanks , @tariqkrim , @astaniscia86 , @davewiner , @ma...
Newzoo predicts mobile games revenue will fall 6.4% to $92.2B in 2022, the first drop in a decade, compared to 7.3% growth in 2021 and 25.6% growth in 2020
Financial Times : Tweets: @ballmatthew , @guyhardinglc , and @astaniscia86 Tweets: Matthew Ball / @ballmatthew : US gaming spend finally grows in 2022. Nov +3% YoY YTD still -7% and Nov *content* sal...
Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from risky debt
Reuters : Tweets: @astaniscia86 , @marxculture , @helvetius66 , and @underoak Tweets: Giulio S. / @astaniscia86 : $10 billion worth of loans secured by Twitter's assets might have to be written down ...
Memo: online fast fashion retailer Shein is exploring becoming a marketplace for third-party merchants and started diversifying its supply chain away from China
The fast-growing company founded in China has also begun diversifying its supply chain to Europe, according to memo to investors Tweets: @astaniscia86 Tweets: Giulio S. / @astaniscia86 : Shein is on t...
Omdia: in 2022, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Apple are on pace to take 68% of ~$500B in online ad revenue made by non-China companies, driven by video campaigns
TV and film companies are racing to capture some of the marketing cash pouring into the likes of YouTube Tweets: @astaniscia86 , @mattnavarra , and @c_valenzuelab Tweets: Giulio S. / @astaniscia86 : O...
How virtual influencers are gaining popularity in China amid a celebrity crackdown; research predicts the industry will go from ~$870M in 2021 to ~$6.7B in 2025
Computer-generated avatars are a safer option as Beijing cracks down on human celebrities — China's celebrity influencers Viya … Tweets: @changeist , @mattnavarra , @astaniscia86 , @edwardwhitenz , ...
Analysis: Amazon is projected to spend ~$15B on programming including sports in 2022, ahead of Netflix's $13.6B, Disney+'s $9.5B, and Apple's $6B
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