April 18, 2022
Streaming Subscriptions Decline in UK as Inflation Mounts

Households in the U.K. are dropping steaming services in record numbers as runaway inflation eats away at already strained budgets, according to media reports on Monday (April 18). Streaming services...

April 14, 2022
Peloton Hikes Subscription Fees, Cuts Hardware Costs

Peloton will cut the price of its three main connect fitness products while hiking the cost of its subscription in an attempt to generate more recurring revenue. As Bloomberg reported...

April 14, 2022
New Platform Model Brings Commerce to In-Game, Metaverse Ads

In early April, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) held what it called the “first event of its kind” convening agencies, brands, platforms and developers to get a grip on advertising...

April 13, 2022
Brazil FinTech Stark Bank Raises $45M With Jeff Bezos’ Support

São Paulo, Brazil-based FinTech Stark Bank received $45 million in a Series B round with support from Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos, Bloomberg reported Monday (April 11). The transaction is...

April 05, 2022
Today in Crypto: DOJ Seizes $34M in Crypto From S....

U.S. federal prosecutors in the southern district of Florida have seized around $34 million in cryptocurrency tied to illegal dark web activity, a press release said Tuesday (April 5). Law...

April 04, 2022
London’s Growth Kitchen Debuts With $3.9M Investment

London-based Growth Kitchen, a FoodTech startup that builds satellite kitchen networks, announced it received £3 million ($3.9 million) in seed funding Friday (April 1). Growth Kitchen said this investment will...

March 31, 2022
Entering the Storm: An Overview of Recent Anti-monopoly Investigations in...

The current “anti-monopoly enforcement storm” was prompted by China’s top leadership in late 2020 under the policy objective of “preventing disorderly expansion of capital”.  China’s anti-monopoly regulator, SAMR (and its...

March 30, 2022
Streaming App Provider Ranking Sees a Close Race, New Member...

Classics, action, new episodes — PYMNTS’ latest Provider Ranking of Streaming Apps has it all. This month, some contenders remain where they were last time, some move up a spot...

March 30, 2022
Rising Streaming Costs Threaten LatAm’s Digital Shift

Latin America is a continent as case study when it comes to digital modernization from payments to streaming, blazing trails that emerging and developed markets can learn from. In a...