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ViacomCBS Streaming Service Paramount+ To Launch In March
January 19, 2021

ViacomCBS is planning a March 4 rollout of Paramount+, its new streaming service rebranded from CBS All Access, the company said in a press release on Tuesday (Jan. 19).  The newly rebranded entertainment platform will be launched first in the U.S. and Latin America, followed...

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From Comfy Sweats To Big Corporate Bets; 5 WFH Trends That Look Set To Stay
January 01, 2021

“The future comes one day at a time,” statesman Dean Acheson, architect of the Cold War’s Truman Doctrine once said. While the post-war issues of the 1940s and ’50s clearly carried their own unique set of global challenges, it could be argued that the fallout...

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Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Tools To Compete With Google, Microsoft
December 23, 2020

Spurred by accelerated use amid the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom is considering the integration of calendar and email tools to better compete with Microsoft and Google, The Verge reported on Wednesday (Dec. 23), citing the Information. This year, the Silicon Valley video conferencing startup saw its...

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Digital Ad Spending Now 51 Pct Of US Total For First Time
December 01, 2020

Over half of U.S. advertising spending this year, or 51 percent, will go to Big Tech, such as Amazon, Google and Facebook, as the pandemic drastically affects the industry, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). This is the first time that milestone has been...

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Event Businesses Face Grim 2021 As Would-Be Conference-Goers Retreat
November 17, 2020

In the seemingly glacial crawl marking the return to normalcy across various corners of the business world… …there may be green shoots budding, or at least on the horizon, for the business event space. On the other hand, any real rebound would take a while amid...

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Uber Eats Anticipates Continued Demand After Pandemic
November 11, 2020

Uber‘s food delivery business, Uber Eats, is betting it will continue to see success even after the pandemic ends, according to Bloomberg. The company has seen continued success in the months-long pandemic, with customers ordering more often and new ones beginning to use the service,...

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Report: Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi Considers Sale, Other Options
September 21, 2020

Quibi, a streaming service app founded by media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, is considering its options, including a possible sale, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which calls itself the “first entertainment platform designed specifically for your phone,” is also considering raising more money...

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Lime CFO On Driving Profits From Scooters
September 21, 2020

The wild, unprecedented and totally unanticipated changes that the pandemic has wrought means every business has to ask itself tough questions if it wants to survive, Lime Chief Financial Officer Andrea Ellis told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. “I think COVID has forced all...

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Kodak Cleared Of Insider Trading Violations, Stock Soars
September 16, 2020

An independent review has cleared Eastman Kodak Co. CEO James Continenza of insider trading involving a $765 million government loan to manufacture prescription medication ingredients and caused its stock to take off, Reuters reported. At the close, the Rochester, New York-based firm’s stock reached $8.52...