November 30, 2022
Cross-Border Merchants Must Heed Local Cultural Nuances of Payments

Payments personalization enables a merchant to deliver a ubiquitous experience — consumers in any market can pay in any manner they choose. We’re not there yet. But BigCommerce CEO Brent...

November 28, 2022
Disney’s Box Office Bomb Adds Pressure to Streaming Success

For Disney, it was a less than stellar holiday weekend — and that’s putting it mildly. The fact that “Strange World” has bombed at the box office shows that monetizing...

November 28, 2022
Yahoo To Buy 25% Stake In Taboola In Ad Deal

Yahoo  will snap up a 25% stake in Israeli-founded digital tech company Taboola Inc. as part of a 30-year commercial agreement to help boost advertiser offerings on its digital properties....

November 28, 2022
Amazon To Shut Down Its Food-Delivery Business In India

Amazon will wind down parts of its Indian operations, showing that even the crucial growth market with 1.4 billion consumers isn’t immune to Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy’s cost-reduction campaign....

November 23, 2022
Report: Amazon Pledges $1B Annual Spend to Bring Prime Originals...

Amazon is expanding its latest streaming content to a more traditional setting by planning to invest $1 billion each year toward running its new Prime Video original releases in movie...

November 23, 2022
Netflix Eyes High-Profile Gaming

Netflix is on the verge of taking its video game plans to a new stage, with reports that the streaming service’s games office in Los Angeles is seeking a director...

November 13, 2022
Layoffs Loom at Disney as Company Looks to Cut Costs

Disney will likely lay off employees as the entertainment goliath embarks on a cost-trimming project, part of a wave of job cuts hitting the media and tech industries. A memo...

November 09, 2022
The Indivisibility of Telecommunications Networks: A Possible Explanation for Past...

By Dr. Fernando Herrera González*   Recently, Orange and MásMovil have announced that they are negotiating an agreement to form a single company in Spain. Experience shows that these transactions...

November 09, 2022
How the New Anti-Merger Policy May Be the New Antitrust...

Neo-Brandeisian policies that would chill acquisitions by highly capitalized companies, or companies with 30%+ market share in some related market, would remove from the competitive race the companies that often...