May 02, 2017
Facebook Tracker: Anticipation
Facebook (FB) shares have hit record highs amid investor optimism on the social media giant’s upcoming Q1 earnings report. Facebook is slated to release the results on Wednesday of this...
May 01, 2017
Apple’s $250B Cash Hoard
When Apple comes out with earnings later this week, it is widely expected to report that its cash on hand has met and exceeded the quarter of a trillion dollars...
May 01, 2017
Netflix Show Leaked, Other Studios’ Content Up For Ransom
Even as Netflix and other media companies invest internally in the latest cybersecurity, services at outside entities remain at risk. A hacker claiming to hold a number of unreleased television...
April 27, 2017
What Post-Millennials Like
Just as marketers started to get the hang of this newfangled “millennial” crowd, the next generation comes along to shake things up with different values, preferences and spending patterns. C’est...
April 26, 2017
Vantiv Finds Millennial And Boomer Expectations Meet On Mobile
Living up to consumer expectations is difficult work these days for many reasons, not the least of which is that consumers are a fairly heterogeneous group of people with widely...
April 25, 2017
Amazon Tracker: Doubling Down On Subscriptions
Amazon shares (AMZN) continue to ride high through April, skirting the 900 line with prices fluctuating just above and below, closing out the third week of April trading just below. AMZN...
April 24, 2017
Ant Financial’s Great Mobile Payments Race
The most memorable thing that came out of the 1959 movie, A Hole in the Head, was its 1960 Oscar-winning song, “High Hopes,” sung by Frank Sinatra. If the song...
April 21, 2017
Netflix, Uber And Lazada Team Up To Take On Amazon
They say two heads are better than one — and when it comes to taking on a player like Amazon, it probably doesn’t hurt to throw an extra head into the...
April 17, 2017
US: Could Apple buy Disney? Rumors
According to a speculative analysis from RBC Capital Markets, the long-running rumor that Apple may buy Disney is gaining some traction in reality. Currently, Apple has a mind-blowing amount of...
The “Subscription Commerce Tracker™,” powered by Recurly, explores how companies use subscription-based commerce to build long-term customer relationships and steady revenue sources. The report includes notable developments in the market and the companies that are rapidly innovating the space.