The Starbucks 15-Year Journey to 100% Ethically Sourced Coffee with Conservation International
Starbucks has partnerships with organizations like Conservation International and the Eastern Congo Initiative to ensure its coffee is as close to 100% ethically sourced as possible. Starbucks video above published Jun 11, 2019.
How Starbucks $SBUX Created Its Iconic Mermaid Logo
How Starbucks Found Its Mythical Mermaid: the story about how a much-loved novel provided inspiration for the Starbucks logo. Video by Leila Hussain. Bloomberg.com video first published Apr 30, 2018.
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2019-06-22
Tech Review 1) Big Tech & Antitrust, 2) World's Most Valuable Brands 2019
1) Big Tech & Antitrust
Antitrust expert Doug Melamed on the new probes into Big Tech
Doug Melamed, Stanford law professor, joins CNBC's "Squawk Alley" to discuss how the Microsoft antitrust case he helped bring to court might affect the new probes into major tech companies. CNBC Television video above published Jun 13, 2019.
2) World's Most Valuable Brands 2019
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For more: Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2019 (published June 2019).
Editor's note: Huawei?
"The most ambitious start-ups attempted to transcend their region of origin to become seen as global brands."--brandz.comChinese Cash In Silicon Valley Is Suddenly Toxic: as U.S. startups reject their money, Chinese venture-capital firms in U.S. are structuring deals to avoid regulators or shutting down. See also: World’s Top Bicycle Maker Says the Era of ‘Made in China’ Is Over and Apple Explores Moving Some Production Out of China--Trade tensions prompt iPhone maker to consider diversifying supply chain. On Friday the U.S. Department of Commerce expanded its national security “entity list” to bar Chinese supercomputer firms from buying U.S. parts and components without U.S. government approval.
3) Investing
The Week--NASDAQ Composite +3.0% | S&P 500 Index +2.2% | DJIA +2.4%--for the week all three major U.S. stock indexes gained at least 2.2%, with the S&P 500 hitting its first record close since April.
The Backstory: U.S. stocks ended slightly lower Friday, but locked in strong weekly gains after the Federal Reserve indicated on Wednesday it could carry out rate cuts later this year if economic conditions decline, with investors eyeing a slowdown in the global economy, and the G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, 28-29 June 2019, where a widely anticipated meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump may take place.
Investor Notes--where the 'ready' users of Libra & Calibra already are:
Background:
4) ICYMI Tech News:
"Unicorns are amazingly deflationary vehicles. They're deflating rents, they're deflating driver salaries, they're deflating all kinds of things"--renown short-seller Jim Chanos explaining how Silicon Valley unicorns have pushed prices lower and why central banks are to blame.
According to latest estimates by Ericsson, 5G won’t really take off until 2021/2022. See also Crown Castle International: a play on the coming of 5G and the expansion of IoT--SeekingAlpha.com.
Nvidia says its accelerator chips will work with ARM processors by end of this year.
Google will eventually provide RCS Chat (replacement for SMS texting) directly to any Android user. Note also Google cancels plans for future tablets, focusing instead on Pixel phones and Pixelbooks (chromebooks).
Urban Mobility: Getting Beyond Gridlock--by 2030 robo-taxis, autonomous shuttles, and trains, will provide most urban mobility with private cars only a very small share, and buses almost non-existent.
Walmart: U.S. eCommerce Strategy and the Role of Jet.com. Walmart is the fourth largest online retailer in the US in 2019, according to eMarketer estimates, behind only Amazon, eBay, and Apple. See also: Apple says iPhones can now be fixed at all U.S. Best Buy stores, and Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown Gets Costly for Big Retailers--wolfstreet.com.
Slack closed at $38.62, June 20, 2019, up 48.5% from its $26 reference price, on its first day of trading as a direct listing, valuing the company at about $20B. Domain: slack.com. Investor relations: https://investor.slackhq.com/home/default.aspx.
UK: likely next Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, pledges to 'end the digital divide' by 2025, via a full rollout of fiber broadband.
Personal Tech: most U.S. mobile banking apps have security and privacy flaws, researchers say.
-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo
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- Fed Chair LIVE Jun 19, 2:30pm EDT, ECB Draghi Chaos, Facebook Calibra & Libra: "The first product Calibra will introduce is a digital wallet for Libra, a new global currency powered by blockchain technology."
- In an opinion piece in the Financial Times on Friday, Facebook Inc’s co-founder Chris Hughes said the Libra cryptocurrency would hand over much of the control of monetary policy from central banks to private companies: “If global regulators don’t act now, it could very soon be too late,” wrote Hughes, who also said the corporations that would oversee the new currency would put their private interests - profits and influence - ahead of public ones. Editor's note: what Hughes describes is exactly how ICANN has been corrupted.
- The international Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued updated guidance concerning regulation of cryptocurrency and virtual assets at its meeting in Orlando, Florida.
- European central bankers claim oversight over Facebook’s cryptocurrency--reuters.com. Reuters also reported that France is creating a G7 task force to study how central banks ensure cryptocurrencies like Facebook’s Libra are governed by regulations ranging from money-laundering laws to consumer-protection rules.
4) ICYMI Tech News:
According to latest estimates by Ericsson, 5G won’t really take off until 2021/2022. See also Crown Castle International: a play on the coming of 5G and the expansion of IoT--SeekingAlpha.com.
Nvidia says its accelerator chips will work with ARM processors by end of this year.
Google will eventually provide RCS Chat (replacement for SMS texting) directly to any Android user. Note also Google cancels plans for future tablets, focusing instead on Pixel phones and Pixelbooks (chromebooks).
Urban Mobility: Getting Beyond Gridlock--by 2030 robo-taxis, autonomous shuttles, and trains, will provide most urban mobility with private cars only a very small share, and buses almost non-existent.
Walmart: U.S. eCommerce Strategy and the Role of Jet.com. Walmart is the fourth largest online retailer in the US in 2019, according to eMarketer estimates, behind only Amazon, eBay, and Apple. See also: Apple says iPhones can now be fixed at all U.S. Best Buy stores, and Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown Gets Costly for Big Retailers--wolfstreet.com.
Slack closed at $38.62, June 20, 2019, up 48.5% from its $26 reference price, on its first day of trading as a direct listing, valuing the company at about $20B. Domain: slack.com. Investor relations: https://investor.slackhq.com/home/default.aspx.
UK: likely next Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, pledges to 'end the digital divide' by 2025, via a full rollout of fiber broadband.
Personal Tech: most U.S. mobile banking apps have security and privacy flaws, researchers say.
-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo
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2019-05-15
Streetwear Brand Supreme And Its War Against 'Legal Fakes' (video)
Supreme is under siege by imitators. Here's why it's legal
This CNN business video has been updated to clarify the language describing IBF's trademark status in China and the date of a quote. Streetwear brand Supreme is loved by celebrities and valued at $1 billion. But overseas it's waging war against "legal fakes" companies that are legally imitating the brand in countries from Spain to China.
@supremenewyork The official Twitter account of Supreme® EST 1994, NYC. All other accounts are fake.
This CNN business video has been updated to clarify the language describing IBF's trademark status in China and the date of a quote. Streetwear brand Supreme is loved by celebrities and valued at $1 billion. But overseas it's waging war against "legal fakes" companies that are legally imitating the brand in countries from Spain to China.
@supremenewyork The official Twitter account of Supreme® EST 1994, NYC. All other accounts are fake.
Official domain: supremenewyork.comSupreme founder speaks up about Italian “legal fake” company https://t.co/78aED39NNB pic.twitter.com/90CwF3B7oo— FashionUnitedUK (@FashionUnitedUK) April 9, 2019
Big fake Supreme store opened in Shanghai...— Supreme DROPS (@dropssupreme) May 10, 2019
What do you think about this ? pic.twitter.com/jjrGGv8k7a
This is how 'Supreme Italia' gets away with “Legal Fakes”https://t.co/L67Hk0WFZI pic.twitter.com/sT4f6lNezF— Highsnobiety (@highsnobiety) March 19, 2019
Open for (legally fake) business #Supreme https://t.co/WuH8tZX20a— nss magazine (@nssmag) May 3, 2019
Samsung have terminated their deal with counterfeit brand "Supreme Italia", announced earlier this year.— Supreme DROPS (@dropssupreme) February 4, 2019
It remains unclear whether Samsung were under the impression they were collaborating with the real Supreme brand or not.
Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/hoq37RVYXz
2019-03-24
News Review 1) ICANN Org Policy-Making Trashes Legacy gTLD .ORG
1) ICANN Org Policy-Making Trashes Legacy gTLD .ORG
Public comment period closes 29 April 2019 at 23:59 UTC.
UPDATE 29 Mar 00:00UTC: ALL Comments To Date OPPOSE removing .ORG Price Caps.
What's the Problem? ICANN Org has once again subverted its own ICANN community's policy-making processes by proposing drastic changes to a legacy gTLD registry agreement, to wit: removing all price controls on .org domain names and subjecting .org domain names to a new Section 2.8 and Specification 7 in the proposed renewal agreement as well as the new gTLD program's Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) (which are currently being reviewed and revised in a PDP, and were never intended to apply to legacy gTLDs .COM, .NET, and .ORG when adopted in connection with the new gTLDs program). The RPMs are set forth in Specification 7 of the new gTLDs Registry Agreement and include the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system, the Trademark Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (PDDRP) and the Registration Restrictions Dispute Resolution Procedure (RRDRP).
Reactions:
- The problem with price hikes on legacy TLDs | DomainNameWire.com: “It should not be a goal to align legacy [g]TLD policies with new [g]TLD policies.”--comment: 'Exactly, it should be the other way around. But, this is ICANN we are talking about. Backwards thinking.'
- This Means War! ICANN proposes lifting price cap provisions on .org and .info domains! | OnlineDomain.com.
See also: Proposed Renewal of .info Registry Agreement, public comment closes April 29.
Analysis & Opinion Editor's note: this ICANN & PIR .ORG proposal crafted in secret, is policy-making at its worst, by the management and staff of ICANN, a California corporation, operating as a rogue "global internet coordinator" without any governmental mandate and accountable only to itself and its non-representative "ICANN community" dominated by its own "contracted parties" and lawyers and lobbyists representing "special interests." ICANN shows once again it has little regard for domain name registrants, and is unfit for any role in global internet governance.
This proposal, apparently agreed to by the current .ORG Registry Operator PIR's management and its Board of Directors, also indicates that PIR is unfit to manage the TLD .ORG in the global public interest in accordance with RFC 1591 and its contract should therefore be terminated, and .ORG opened for bidding in conformance with the advice of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, attached to a letter sent to ICANN in 2008, by NTIA.gov.
PIR's new President, Jonathon Nevett, a co-founder of new gTLDs registry operator Donuts, who 'cashed out' when Donuts was taken over by former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade and his crony, former ICANN GDD President Akram Atallah, now, apparently, wants to turn PIR into another "Donuts" and .ORG into a new gTLD like .SUCKS.
Registrants should consider dumping all of their .ORG domain names, or renewing any retained .ORG domain name for 10 years. In 10 years, we might be rid of ICANN and its corrupt culture of monopolistic crony capitalism based upon pure greed and the shameless exploitation of both domain name registrants and trademark owners.
2) Other ICANN News
a. EPDP Team Members at WSIS?
Kurt Pritz, who quit as EPDP Chair in February and has been replaced by acting Chair Rafik Dammak, inexplicably reappeared on the EPDP mail list March 19, soliciting for 2-3 EPDP members to travel at their own expense to Geneva, Switzerland, and participate in ICANN Org's Thematic Workshop: ICANN, the GDPR and WHOIS (pdf), scheduled for April 11, 2019, 16:30-18:15. The only response to date came from Ayden Férdeline (NCSG EPDP member):
b. Goodbye .HONEYWELL: Honeywell Voluntarily Terminates Its Honeywell .BRAND New gTLD. Back end registry services provider Neustar, Inc. [Editor's note: another one of ICANN's extortionate .BRAND new gTLDs meets its end, what a waste of time, resources, and money!]
"I am afraid I do not understand why this session is taking place. May I suggest we re-think whether we even need to present our work at WSIS? Do we know who from ICANN org will be in attendance? Will there be a large ICANN org staff delegation? In the past when I have gone to WSIS, Theresa Swinehart has been there sitting on the panels, and often other ICANN staff, reading the same slides we've all seen countless times, but the attendance from the 'community' is often sparse - if the room not empty. Is this session taking place to fulfill a legitimate need to update people on our work, or is it furthering a different goal, i.e. because ICANN is seeking sectoral membership to the ITU and WSIS is an ITU event? I believe ICANN is obliged, as a sponsor of this event, to host a number of workshops - are we just helping ICANN meet its quota? I don't want to sound too negative here but I'm really not sure what the goal for this session could be. WSIS is no longer an important forum and has been struggling to fill its slots for sessions. They extended the workshop submission deadline multiple times this year. Mightn't we might be better off focusing our attention planning for Phase 2 of our work?" (emphasis and link added)No reply from Kurt Pritz or anyone else on behalf of ICANN Org as of Mar 26, 22:00 UTC (updated).
b. Goodbye .HONEYWELL: Honeywell Voluntarily Terminates Its Honeywell .BRAND New gTLD. Back end registry services provider Neustar, Inc. [Editor's note: another one of ICANN's extortionate .BRAND new gTLDs meets its end, what a waste of time, resources, and money!]
- ICANN's Judicial Estoppel Post-Trial Brief (pdf) and Appendix A (pdf) March 2019
- Plaintiff's Judicial Estoppel Post-Trial Brief (pdf) March 2019
- More documents now published by ICANN here.
3) Names, Domains & Trademarks
Tucows $TCX acquired wholesale domain name registrar Ascio Technologies from CSC, for $29.44M, adding ~1.8 million domains under management and approximately 500 active resellers. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to operating cash flow, and provide synergies over the next 12 to 18 months. Pre-acquisition, Ascio generated ~$4M of annual EBITDA. Purchase price funded through Tucows’ existing credit facility. More here.
Q. Will all domain name marketplaces have to become licensed escrow agents?--TheDomains.com.
INTA: Effects of ICANN’s WHOIS Reforms Under GDPR--published March 14, 2019, by INTA's Internet Committee 2018/2019 (pdf). A report summarizing the results of the INTA Internet Committee's call for comments during the summer and fall of 2018 regarding ICANN's Temporary Specification for WHOIS and its impact on access to thick WHOIS registrant information.
How Starbucks protects its brand in China (about half of Starbucks’ enforcement workload): (a) relationship building with government departments in provinces is key to success; (b) “light touch” used when dealing with non-willful infringement of brands such as Frappuccino--more here.
4) ICYMI Internet Domain News
EU: with final vote on the controversial EU Copyright Directive, Articles 11 and 13, scheduled for this coming week, a number of European Wikipedia sites went 'dark' for the day, blocking all access and directing users to contact their local EU representative to protest the laws. Many fear that the directive will adversely impact freedom of speech in Europe.
Russia: Russians, Fearing Internet Isolation, Protest Government Plan--npr.org. Also: Russia Passes Law Preventing Criticism Of The State As Citizens Worry About Loss Of Internet Freedom, Or Worse--tsarizm.com.
Splintered internet result of freedom of speech: Khan--pacbiztimes.com.
5) Most Read this past week on DomainMondo.com:
3. Brexit Madness - UK PM Theresa May to Ask EU for Brexit Delay (video)
4. Federal Reserve Chairman's Press Conference LIVE Wednesday, March 20
4. Federal Reserve Chairman's Press Conference LIVE Wednesday, March 20
-- John Poole, Editor • Domain Mondo
2019-01-16
Amazon $AMZN Playbook's Strategy for Alexa & Alexa Skills (video)
Amazon Playbook: Strategy for Alexa
L2inc.com video above published Jan 10, 2019: There are almost 25 million US households with an Amazon Alexa device. Here's how your brand can take advantage of Amazon's voice platform.
Amazon.com search:
Domain: developer.amazon.com/alexa
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L2inc.com video above published Jan 10, 2019: There are almost 25 million US households with an Amazon Alexa device. Here's how your brand can take advantage of Amazon's voice platform.
Amazon's Alexa is the voice-activated, interactive AI bot, or personal assistant, that lets people speak with their Amazon Echo, Echo Dot and other Amazon smart home devices. ... But Alexa Skills are apps that give Alexa even more abilities, letting her speak to more devices even websites--gearbrain.com.Alexa Skills (Google SERP)
Amazon.com search:
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2019-01-07
Vodafone Group $VOD Branding and Innovation (video)
Vodafone brand evolution
Vodafone Group short animation video showing the evolution of the Vodafone brand.
Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Vodafone is a UK-based multinational telecom, the second largest mobile network operator in the world with a subscriber base of 469.7 million users (China's state-owned China Mobile is the largest) . Vodafone is the fifth largest mobile network operator by revenue. Founded in 1991, Vodafone offers mobile network services primarily in the regions of Oceania, Africa, Europe, and Asia, operates and owns mobile networks in 26 countries, with partner networks in more than 50 additional countries. The Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides IT and telecommunications services in 150 countries. Vodafone shares are primarily listed on the London Stock Exchange (constituent of the FTSE 100 Index) and secondarily listed on NASDAQ.
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Vodafone Group short animation video showing the evolution of the Vodafone brand.
Vodafone is the most valuable brand in the UK because it’s pioneered innovation beyond the mobile space says Jane Bloomfield, Head of Business Development at Kantar UK--bloomberg.com.Vodafone Group Plc LON: VOD | NASDAQ: VOD | domain: vodafone.com
Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Vodafone is a UK-based multinational telecom, the second largest mobile network operator in the world with a subscriber base of 469.7 million users (China's state-owned China Mobile is the largest) . Vodafone is the fifth largest mobile network operator by revenue. Founded in 1991, Vodafone offers mobile network services primarily in the regions of Oceania, Africa, Europe, and Asia, operates and owns mobile networks in 26 countries, with partner networks in more than 50 additional countries. The Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides IT and telecommunications services in 150 countries. Vodafone shares are primarily listed on the London Stock Exchange (constituent of the FTSE 100 Index) and secondarily listed on NASDAQ.
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2019-01-02
'Social Media-Famous, Budget-Friendly Clothier' Fashion Nova
Welcome To The Future | FASHION NOVA
Fashion Nova video above published Dec 14, 2018.
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Fashion Nova video above published Dec 14, 2018.
"Google’s most-searched fashion brand of the year -- right ahead of Louis Vuitton and Versace -- was Fashion Nova, a social media-famous, budget-friendly clothier that markets itself to a diverse customer base."--What Eight Social Trends Told Us About America's Economy in 2018 | Bloomberg.com.Domain: fashionnova.com
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2018-11-20
Peter Chernin On The Future of Digital Entertainment (video)
Peter Chernin: The Future of Digital Entertainment
In an episode of Talks at GS, filmed at Goldman Sachs’ Builders + Innovators Summit, media executive Peter Chernin discussed the evolution of digital entertainment and how the business continues to adapt for a changing consumer. Goldman Sachs (goldmansachs.com) video above published Nov 9, 2018 (via YouTube.com).
Competition for Consumers: “I’m a big believer in try[ing] to think about where consumers are being underserved.… I think there’s one huge chokepoint in the whole thing right now, which is curation, recommendation. I think there is so much stuff out there and I think consumers are wildly underserved…. It’s not money that’s the scarce commodity in that sense, because Netflix is a great bargain. It’s time. It’s how do you figure out what is worth my two hours tonight?”
Brand identity in a digital world: “Branding is certainly enormously important. I think that… the really interesting challenge from… a digital perspective right now is the balance between customer acquisition, marketing dollars and brand marketing dollars. In general, I think most certainly nascent digital brands are better off spending most of their money on customer acquisition marketing…. So, the brand is hugely important, but I’m not sure I would be marketing it.”
See also:
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In an episode of Talks at GS, filmed at Goldman Sachs’ Builders + Innovators Summit, media executive Peter Chernin discussed the evolution of digital entertainment and how the business continues to adapt for a changing consumer. Goldman Sachs (goldmansachs.com) video above published Nov 9, 2018 (via YouTube.com).
Competition for Consumers: “I’m a big believer in try[ing] to think about where consumers are being underserved.… I think there’s one huge chokepoint in the whole thing right now, which is curation, recommendation. I think there is so much stuff out there and I think consumers are wildly underserved…. It’s not money that’s the scarce commodity in that sense, because Netflix is a great bargain. It’s time. It’s how do you figure out what is worth my two hours tonight?”
Brand identity in a digital world: “Branding is certainly enormously important. I think that… the really interesting challenge from… a digital perspective right now is the balance between customer acquisition, marketing dollars and brand marketing dollars. In general, I think most certainly nascent digital brands are better off spending most of their money on customer acquisition marketing…. So, the brand is hugely important, but I’m not sure I would be marketing it.”
See also:
- Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green--Reed Hastings wants to compete with YouTube overseas, and the only way it can do that is by offering a free-with-ads option, says Green.
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2018-11-16
Could Amazon $AMZN Be The Demise of Apple $AAPL? (video)
Could Amazon be the demise of Apple?
L2inc.com video published Nov 15, 2018. Scott Galloway poses the above question.
L2inc analysis:
See also: Amazon strikes deal with Apple to sell new iPhones and iPads | TheVerge.com
Editor's note: Only Apple or Apple-authorized resellers will be allowed to sell Apple and Beats devices through Amazon, and any other companies that are currently selling Apple products on Amazon will see their listings taken down starting on January 4th, 2019, after which they will need to apply to Apple to become official resellers before being allowed to sell them again on Amazon.
Transcript (unedited, auto-generated):
00:01 Clash of the Titans what happens when an
00:05 unstoppable force a mossad up against an
00:08 immovable apple not fire not brimstone
00:11 but a big deal check that a big deal on
00:16 Sunday news broke that Amazon and Apple
00:18 had signed a deal to expand the products
00:20 Apple sells on the e-commerce platform
00:22 Apple has largely been absent from
00:24 Amazon with the exception of Apple TV
00:27 products while Amazon's typical strategy
00:29 is to partner with a brand copy their
00:31 product and sell the brand for a lower
00:33 price and then outsource the part of the
00:36 ecosystem
00:36 Amazon's attempts to enter the
00:38 smartphone arena have failed anyone
00:41 remember the fire what does Amazon's
00:43 master plan with this deal simple
00:45 everyone buys everything on Amazon
00:47 luxury has been a long-term holdout from
00:50 the platform but the ultimate luxury
00:52 brand is now distributing officially on
00:55 Amazon that luxury brand is Apple prior
00:57 to this week's deal searching for Apple
00:59 on Amazon led mostly to refurbish phones
01:02 and accessories from third-party sellers
01:04 that is junk which extended the
01:07 replacement cycle for Apple which they
01:09 do not like the leap from selling $10
01:11 cases $2,000 smart phones means big
01:14 bucks and margin for Amazon and Apple
01:18 what does Apple get here one control
01:20 this gives Apple a means to control
01:21 content and pricing on its secondary
01:23 market a strategy Nike tried to
01:26 implement but was largely unsuccessful
01:28 we'll see if Apple has the power that
01:30 Nike didn't in addition Santa is coming
01:33 the timing of this deal sets Apple up
01:35 well for the 2018 holiday season and
01:38 Apple can now be included in Amazon's
01:40 massive global holiday marketing efforts
01:43 Apple also has to feed the beast of
01:45 growth iPhone sales have been slowing
01:47 over the years everyone who's going to
01:48 buy the thousand dollar iPhone X most
01:51 likely already did they have bought into
01:53 the religion and camped out at Apple
01:55 stores or pre-ordered them online the
01:57 strategy here is a simple one maintain
01:59 the temples to the brand the Apple
02:00 stores for the fresh off the runway
02:02 looks
02:02 for example the iPhone X align and also
02:05 open an outlet store for the less
02:08 aspirational products going into less
02:10 aspirational distribution is a bad eye
02:13 this is a company [Apple] that's so hungry for
02:15 growth to keep feeding the beast they
02:17 have decided to make a brand denigrating
02:20 move and are going into less
02:21 aspirational distribution which will
02:23 come back to haunt them
02:25 this is another symbol that Apple has
02:27 jumped the shark ....
[Music] "Whip It" by Devo
L2inc.com video published Nov 15, 2018. Scott Galloway poses the above question.
L2inc analysis:
See also: Amazon strikes deal with Apple to sell new iPhones and iPads | TheVerge.com
Editor's note: Only Apple or Apple-authorized resellers will be allowed to sell Apple and Beats devices through Amazon, and any other companies that are currently selling Apple products on Amazon will see their listings taken down starting on January 4th, 2019, after which they will need to apply to Apple to become official resellers before being allowed to sell them again on Amazon.
Transcript (unedited, auto-generated):
00:01 Clash of the Titans what happens when an
00:05 unstoppable force a mossad up against an
00:08 immovable apple not fire not brimstone
00:11 but a big deal check that a big deal on
00:16 Sunday news broke that Amazon and Apple
00:18 had signed a deal to expand the products
00:20 Apple sells on the e-commerce platform
00:22 Apple has largely been absent from
00:24 Amazon with the exception of Apple TV
00:27 products while Amazon's typical strategy
00:29 is to partner with a brand copy their
00:31 product and sell the brand for a lower
00:33 price and then outsource the part of the
00:36 ecosystem
00:36 Amazon's attempts to enter the
00:38 smartphone arena have failed anyone
00:41 remember the fire what does Amazon's
00:43 master plan with this deal simple
00:45 everyone buys everything on Amazon
00:47 luxury has been a long-term holdout from
00:50 the platform but the ultimate luxury
00:52 brand is now distributing officially on
00:55 Amazon that luxury brand is Apple prior
00:57 to this week's deal searching for Apple
00:59 on Amazon led mostly to refurbish phones
01:02 and accessories from third-party sellers
01:04 that is junk which extended the
01:07 replacement cycle for Apple which they
01:09 do not like the leap from selling $10
01:11 cases $2,000 smart phones means big
01:14 bucks and margin for Amazon and Apple
01:18 what does Apple get here one control
01:20 this gives Apple a means to control
01:21 content and pricing on its secondary
01:23 market a strategy Nike tried to
01:26 implement but was largely unsuccessful
01:28 we'll see if Apple has the power that
01:30 Nike didn't in addition Santa is coming
01:33 the timing of this deal sets Apple up
01:35 well for the 2018 holiday season and
01:38 Apple can now be included in Amazon's
01:40 massive global holiday marketing efforts
01:43 Apple also has to feed the beast of
01:45 growth iPhone sales have been slowing
01:47 over the years everyone who's going to
01:48 buy the thousand dollar iPhone X most
01:51 likely already did they have bought into
01:53 the religion and camped out at Apple
01:55 stores or pre-ordered them online the
01:57 strategy here is a simple one maintain
01:59 the temples to the brand the Apple
02:00 stores for the fresh off the runway
02:02 looks
02:02 for example the iPhone X align and also
02:05 open an outlet store for the less
02:08 aspirational products going into less
02:10 aspirational distribution is a bad eye
02:13 this is a company [Apple] that's so hungry for
02:15 growth to keep feeding the beast they
02:17 have decided to make a brand denigrating
02:20 move and are going into less
02:21 aspirational distribution which will
02:23 come back to haunt them
02:25 this is another symbol that Apple has
02:27 jumped the shark ....
[Music] "Whip It" by Devo
2018-09-17
HBO vs Netflix, LVMH vs Amazon, iOS vs Android (video)
HBO vs Netflix
L2inc.com video above published Sep 13, 2018: HBO execs have proposed moving to a Netflix strategy. This is a terrible mistake says Scott Galloway.
Editor's note: Boutique vs Big:
Transcript (auto-generated):
00:01 from the age of 25 to 40 i lost the
00:05 capacity to cry not once not when people
00:08 close to me passed away not when things
00:10 move me just couldn't do it for some
00:12 reason as a matter of fact the only time
00:14 I ever really felt anything I mean
00:17 really felt something between the ages
00:19 of 25 and 40 was when I was under the
00:21 influence of media specifically
00:25 television a hundred years from now TV
00:27 will be recognized as the defining art
00:29 form of our age when Michael realizes is
00:32 on the bus that killed his father Claire
00:35 reviewing her life as she is about to
00:38 pass anything with Hank from the Larry
00:40 Sanders show I will be your champion
00:43 Game of Thrones the original gangster
00:46 Sopranos a mob soldier perusing photos
00:50 of him and his family at the shore
00:51 before he hangs himself what do most of
00:53 these shows have in common three things
00:56 one h-2b and 300 HBO changed the
01:03 television landscape full stop yes they
01:05 should have seen Netflix coming but
01:07 Netflix similar to Amazon and other
01:09 unicorns was able to execute on a
01:11 strategy that HBO's parent company Time
01:13 Warner could not specifically cheap
01:16 capital without pressure for
01:18 profitability Jon stanky the new head of
01:21 Warner entertainment and by the way a
01:22 Bruin grad can't be all bad recently
01:25 addressed his troops at HBO and
01:27 described a future in which HBO would
01:29 increase its subscriber base and their
01:32 viewing hours to pull it off according
01:34 to mr. stanky HBO would have to come up
01:36 with more content and transform from a
01:39 boutique operation to something bigger
01:41 and broader in short become more Netflix
01:44 ish this was a big mistake and will kill
01:47 what is unique and special about HBO to
01:50 move HBO to an Netflix like strategy is
01:53 to walk into the MU say - or say and
01:55 announce we need to scale this makes no
01:58 sense the most efficient way to process
02:00 information binary zeros and ones and
02:02 the entire consumer sector is
02:04 bifurcating there's Amazon at zero
02:06 there's Gucci at one LVMH is at lunch
02:09 hmm is at zero in the mass category
02:12 Mercedes Toyota
02:13 blue and Southwest Airlines and then
02:15 Emirates and Qatar at the top they
02:18 survive and prosper while Delta American
02:21 United and Sears or anyone else in the
02:23 middle gets run over
02:25 we're also bifurcating as a society
02:27 we're turning into a country of three
02:28 hundred and fifty million serfs serving
02:31 three million Lords iPhones only command
02:33 18% of the market but garner 87 percent
02:38 of the profits HBO is iOS garnering not
02:41 only awards but billions in EBIT - every
02:43 year despite spending less on original
02:46 content mr. stanky is taking unnecessary
02:48 even reckless risks with a unique
02:50 process and culture and is in danger of
02:52 killing what is really special about HBO
02:55 HBO and Disney are the only firms over
02:57 the last several decades that have
02:59 managed to create a process and a
03:01 culture for pulling off the impossible
03:03 scaling creativity they attract or
03:06 maintain the not so secret sauce and
03:08 media a list talent HBO should be the
03:11 prize for switching from Verizon to AT&T;
03:13 where the handset messaging and apps can
03:16 molest people's data and pitch marketers
03:18 on there we're number three strategy to
03:21 summarize its Amazon and LVMH southwest
03:24 and Emirates iOS and Android Chipotle
03:28 and Chipotle that's right we're due for
03:32 some near Mexican fare the Big Dawg
03:34 would like to hang out and here's my
03:36 invitation of Romelu Lukaku the english
03:39 striker from Belgium he and I would just
03:42 get along we're in the line he gets a
03:44 burrito bowl I go pulled pork and boom
03:47 they say to him guacamole or cheese on
03:50 your burrito bowl mr. Lukaku and I step
03:52 and I say yes because that's how me and
03:57 Lulu that's what I call him cuz we roll
04:00 that way he calls me Scott this could
04:04 happen we'll see you next week
04:07 [Music]
feedback & comments via twitter @DomainMondo
L2inc.com video above published Sep 13, 2018: HBO execs have proposed moving to a Netflix strategy. This is a terrible mistake says Scott Galloway.
- HBO vs Netflix
- LVMH vs Amazon
- Mercedes vs Toyota
- Emirates vs Southwest Airlines
- iOS vs Android
Transcript (auto-generated):
00:01 from the age of 25 to 40 i lost the
00:05 capacity to cry not once not when people
00:08 close to me passed away not when things
00:10 move me just couldn't do it for some
00:12 reason as a matter of fact the only time
00:14 I ever really felt anything I mean
00:17 really felt something between the ages
00:19 of 25 and 40 was when I was under the
00:21 influence of media specifically
00:25 television a hundred years from now TV
00:27 will be recognized as the defining art
00:29 form of our age when Michael realizes is
00:32 on the bus that killed his father Claire
00:35 reviewing her life as she is about to
00:38 pass anything with Hank from the Larry
00:40 Sanders show I will be your champion
00:43 Game of Thrones the original gangster
00:46 Sopranos a mob soldier perusing photos
00:50 of him and his family at the shore
00:51 before he hangs himself what do most of
00:53 these shows have in common three things
00:56 one h-2b and 300 HBO changed the
01:03 television landscape full stop yes they
01:05 should have seen Netflix coming but
01:07 Netflix similar to Amazon and other
01:09 unicorns was able to execute on a
01:11 strategy that HBO's parent company Time
01:13 Warner could not specifically cheap
01:16 capital without pressure for
01:18 profitability Jon stanky the new head of
01:21 Warner entertainment and by the way a
01:22 Bruin grad can't be all bad recently
01:25 addressed his troops at HBO and
01:27 described a future in which HBO would
01:29 increase its subscriber base and their
01:32 viewing hours to pull it off according
01:34 to mr. stanky HBO would have to come up
01:36 with more content and transform from a
01:39 boutique operation to something bigger
01:41 and broader in short become more Netflix
01:44 ish this was a big mistake and will kill
01:47 what is unique and special about HBO to
01:50 move HBO to an Netflix like strategy is
01:53 to walk into the MU say - or say and
01:55 announce we need to scale this makes no
01:58 sense the most efficient way to process
02:00 information binary zeros and ones and
02:02 the entire consumer sector is
02:04 bifurcating there's Amazon at zero
02:06 there's Gucci at one LVMH is at lunch
02:09 hmm is at zero in the mass category
02:12 Mercedes Toyota
02:13 blue and Southwest Airlines and then
02:15 Emirates and Qatar at the top they
02:18 survive and prosper while Delta American
02:21 United and Sears or anyone else in the
02:23 middle gets run over
02:25 we're also bifurcating as a society
02:27 we're turning into a country of three
02:28 hundred and fifty million serfs serving
02:31 three million Lords iPhones only command
02:33 18% of the market but garner 87 percent
02:38 of the profits HBO is iOS garnering not
02:41 only awards but billions in EBIT - every
02:43 year despite spending less on original
02:46 content mr. stanky is taking unnecessary
02:48 even reckless risks with a unique
02:50 process and culture and is in danger of
02:52 killing what is really special about HBO
02:55 HBO and Disney are the only firms over
02:57 the last several decades that have
02:59 managed to create a process and a
03:01 culture for pulling off the impossible
03:03 scaling creativity they attract or
03:06 maintain the not so secret sauce and
03:08 media a list talent HBO should be the
03:11 prize for switching from Verizon to AT&T;
03:13 where the handset messaging and apps can
03:16 molest people's data and pitch marketers
03:18 on there we're number three strategy to
03:21 summarize its Amazon and LVMH southwest
03:24 and Emirates iOS and Android Chipotle
03:28 and Chipotle that's right we're due for
03:32 some near Mexican fare the Big Dawg
03:34 would like to hang out and here's my
03:36 invitation of Romelu Lukaku the english
03:39 striker from Belgium he and I would just
03:42 get along we're in the line he gets a
03:44 burrito bowl I go pulled pork and boom
03:47 they say to him guacamole or cheese on
03:50 your burrito bowl mr. Lukaku and I step
03:52 and I say yes because that's how me and
03:57 Lulu that's what I call him cuz we roll
04:00 that way he calls me Scott this could
04:04 happen we'll see you next week
04:07 [Music]
feedback & comments via twitter @DomainMondo
2018-09-14
Costa Cofffee + Coca-Cola $KO vs Starbucks $SBUX (video)
Coca-Cola & Costa Coffee: How The Street Reacted
News that Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey signed off on the $5.1 billion deal for international coffee brand Costa Coffee broke on Friday, August 31, 2018. The push into coffee follows Coca-Cola buying a stake in surging sports drink brand BodyArmor earlier in the month. Both deals are likely to prove lucrative says TheStreet.com's Brian Sozzi in the video above published Aug 31, 2018.
Principal domains: costacoffee.co.uk; coca-cola.com | starbucks.com
Investor Relations: coca-colacompany.com/investors | investor.starbucks.com
Coca-Cola $KO vs Starbucks $SBUX:
Background on Coca-Cola's Costa Coffee Deal
Financial Times (ft.com) video above about Coca-Cola agreeing to buy the Costa Coffee chain from UK leisure group Whitbread in a £3.9bn deal.
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey on Costa Coffee
The Coca-Cola Co. video above published Aug 31, 2018: Coca-Cola President and CEO James Quincey Talks About Planned Acquisition of the Global Coffee Brandon Costa Coffee.
See also:
Tweets by CostaCoffee
News that Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey signed off on the $5.1 billion deal for international coffee brand Costa Coffee broke on Friday, August 31, 2018. The push into coffee follows Coca-Cola buying a stake in surging sports drink brand BodyArmor earlier in the month. Both deals are likely to prove lucrative says TheStreet.com's Brian Sozzi in the video above published Aug 31, 2018.
Principal domains: costacoffee.co.uk; coca-cola.com | starbucks.com
Investor Relations: coca-colacompany.com/investors | investor.starbucks.com
Coca-Cola $KO vs Starbucks $SBUX:
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| $KO |
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| $SBUX |
Financial Times (ft.com) video above about Coca-Cola agreeing to buy the Costa Coffee chain from UK leisure group Whitbread in a £3.9bn deal.
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey on Costa Coffee
The Coca-Cola Co. video above published Aug 31, 2018: Coca-Cola President and CEO James Quincey Talks About Planned Acquisition of the Global Coffee Brandon Costa Coffee.
See also:
Tweets by CostaCoffee
2018-03-25
News Review | EU's GDPR Causing Slower Growth at Facebook $FB
1) EU's GDPR Causing Slower Growth at Facebook $FB
Pivotal Research's Brian Wieser Says the EU's GDPR Is Causing Slower Growth at Facebook
Bloomberg.com video above published Mar 19, 2018: Brian Wieser of Pivotal Research Group (domain: pvtl.com), discusses the Facebook (facebook.com) (NASDAQ: FB) data breach and how regulatory efforts like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are most likely causing slower growth for the company. He speaks with Bloomberg's Jonathan Ferro on "Bloomberg Markets: The Open." See FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says | Bloomberg.com. Facebook $FB shares down 17.45% since Feb 1, 2018:
- How Europe's New Privacy Law Will Change the Web, and More | WIRED.com 19 Mar 2018: "Most of the data rights enshrined under GDPR were already established in the EU, but went unenforced. GDPR standardizes data rights across all EU countries, empowering regulators with the same big stick and sharper teeth. Violators face fines of up to 4 percent of annual global revenue. For Facebook, that would be $1.6 billion; for Google, $4.4 billion."
- How Facebook Made Its Cambridge Analytica Data Crisis Even Worse | Bloomberg.com
- WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook | TheVerge.com 20 Mar 2018: "Facebook bought his app for $16 billion ...."
- Elon Musk Joins #DeleteFacebook With a Barrage of Tweets | NYTimes.com
- To Completely Block Facebook Add these entries below to your hosts file | GitHub.com: "0.0.0.0 apps.facebook.com, 0.0.0.0 connect.facebook.net, 0.0.0.0 facebook.com, 0.0.0.0 fbcdn.com ...."
- Apple CEO Tim Cook says privacy regulations may be necessary; Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges Facebook may need to be regulated--TheVerge.com.
2) ICANN news
- Cautionary Tale: Interpol Is Also a Crime Victim | Bloomberg.com: "Russia and other authoritarian states are gaming the system to go after dissidents."
"Mr Paul Mitchell, senior director of technology policy at Microsoft, said that the GDPR is more closely attached to the European authorities and people, but it impacts all over the world. He highlighted that Microsoft does not see a contradiction between full compliance with the GDPR and legitimate access to WHOIS, which is an important tool to make sure the system is safe. Mitchell concluded by saying that the development of the tiered access model was highly unlikely to be an operational solution with the involvement of stakeholders such as the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), Article19 working party, and data protection authorities, however critical and complex that model might be on the way to a permanent solution." More on that session here.
b. Recently Terminating ICANN's 'Extortion Racket'* .BRAND new gTLDs:
- .XPERIA (SONY)
- .MEO (MEO)
- .SAPO (MEO).
c. Tweet of the Week: NEUSTAR clueless, shameless, or just increasingly desperate?
d. Budget Discussions at ICANN61 | ICANN.org by Göran Marby, ICANN President and CEO, 20 Mar 2018: "... The ideas stemming from these initial conversations, are just that – initial ..."Judging by all the comments, pretty clear no one really cares. https://t.co/q42Qv58YzV #newgtlds— thereforeICANN (@thereforeICANN) March 19, 2018
e. More Information on the Adobe Connect Issue | ICANN.org, by Ashwin Rangan, 20 Mar 2018: "...We will continue to provide updates on this issue pursuant to our coordinated disclosure guidelines. This means we will work jointly with CoSo and the person who reported the issue on the investigation and on sharing information about this issue. Until we know more, ICANN's Adobe Connect services will remain offline. In the meantime, we will be rolling out alternative collaboration tools to the community soon ..." (emphasis added)
f. ICANN Public Comment periods closing in April (subject to change):
- Plan to Restart the Root Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover Process 2 Apr 2018 23:59 UTC
- Draft Procedure for Community gTLD Change Requests 2 Apr 2018 23:59 UTC
- Uniform Board Member Integrity Screening Process 17 Apr 2018 23:59 UTC
- Draft Project Plan for the Proposed Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP) 18 Apr 2018 23:59 UTC
- ICANN Reserve Fund: Proposed Replenishment Strategy 25 Apr 2018 23:59 UTC
g. ICANN61 postscript: Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich “Puertopians” Are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island | theintercept.com.
h. UPDATE: CEP and IRP Status Update – 29 March 2018 [PDF, 247 KB]
3) Names, Domains & Trademarks
b. New gTLD .APP--There’s an App for That; Now There’s .APP for That Too | Dorsey & Whitney LLP | JDSupra.com: "Google’s minimal requirements for .app domain names include the following: (1) .app domain name registrations are secure namespaces; (2) all content must be served over HTTPS so that browsers can load .app websites; and (3) any registrant of a letter/letter two-character ASCII label represents that it will take steps to ensure against misrepresenting or falsely implying that the registrant or its business is affiliated with a government or country-code manager if such affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement does not exist ..." Sunrise Period: Mar 29-Apr 30, 2018; Early Access Period: May 1-8, 2018 (anyone can register available .app domains for an extra fee); General Availability Period starts May 8, 2018.
c. Domains: How to avoid SEO issues when taking your business website international | marketing-interactive.com
4) ICYMI Internet Domain News
b. Turkey blocks access to VPNs, ProtonMail | ahvalnews.com
c. Spain’s “Gag Law”: Amnesty report slams Spanish government for restricting freedom of expression | ELPAÍS.com
d. FCC Chairman Cites James 1:22 in Vow to Fight Internet Censorship of Christian, Conservative Views | christianpost.com
e. This Insane Map Shows All The Beauty And Horror Of The Dark Web | forbes.com
f. Google News Initiative | newsinitiative.withgoogle.com: news filtered by Big Brother?
5) Five Most Read posts this past week on DomainMondo.com:
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