Amazon to hike prices of some music subscription plans from Feb
By Rahat Sandhu (Reuters) – E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it will increase the prices of some of its music subscription plans from February. The price of Amazon…
As Netflix co-founder pulls back, can CEOs preserve the ‘Netflix Way?’
By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) – In his book “No Rules Rules”, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings described a moment in 2001 when venture capital had dried up, forcing…
ClickHouse Launches Cloud Offering For World’s Fastest OLAP Database Management System
ClickHouse, Inc, creators of the online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system, announced the general availability of their newest offering, ClickHouse Cloud, a lightning-fast cloud-based database that simplifies and accelerates…
Spotify acquires firm that detects harmful content
By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) – Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology SA on Wednesday said it had acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform. The…
Music Technology – The Evolution of Music
Today, habits have changed. We live in the age of the image, much information, and mass consumption. With a little historical review, we will first see how technology contributed to…
Netflix Password Sharing Became New Business; or Did It?
Have you ever thought you are paying too many subscription fees for too many contents streaming services? Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Hulu… These are…
Neeva, the alternative to Google that looks to users and not to advertisers
Neeva: An ad-free search engine that doesn’t sell personal data. But you pay “We believe that advertising-funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the…
Is Netflix in a crisis?
Netflix users are dropping, prices are going up, and shared passwords are weighing on the bottom line. Here are the remedies to get back to smiling (but it won’t be…
5G needs startups to grow globally
Here’s what Jasmeet Singh Sethi who leads Ericsson’s ConsumerLab told us about the internal startup program 5G is a platform for innovation and the players across the ecosystem need to…
DoorDash and Lyft partner to unlock exclusive benefits
DoorDash and Lyft announced a partnership to offer benefits on both rides and local delivery. DashPass members will unlock monthly rideshare benefits at no additional cost, and eligible Lyft riders…