Look Out Netflix! Disney $DIS Unveils Its New Streaming Service Disney+

New Streaming Service Disney+

Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) unveiled its new streaming service Disney+ preview.disneyplus.com. Launch date in U.S. is Nov 12, 2019, annual subscription $69.99 or $6.99 monthly.

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It all starts on November 12. For more info: https://t.co/RD04P7jdAT #DisneyPlus pic.twitter.com/M1QI7qkH5p

— Disney (@Disney) April 12, 2019

Check out the new logo for #TheMandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars series coming to #DisneyPlus! pic.twitter.com/m8hifdBLHz

— Star Wars (@starwars) April 14, 2019

Take a peek at #DisneyPlus in action. On November 12, experience unprecedented access to your favorite films and series from Disney, @Pixar, @Marvel, @StarWars, @NatGeo, and more! All the details here: https://t.co/cjBAj7PEUV pic.twitter.com/DGkhdDcio8

— Disney (@Disney) April 14, 2019

Welcome to the family, @TheSimpsons. #DisneyPlus pic.twitter.com/OYAN1ziGsy

— Disney (@Disney) April 11, 2019

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Criterion Channel Streaming Solo, Launched April 8 (video)

Criterion Channel Trailer

CriterionCollection video above: "Our new streaming service launches April 8. Sign up now at www.criterionchannel.com!"

The Criterion Channel, exclusive streaming home for the Criterion Collection, "brought to you by the team at @criterion" launched April 8, 2019 (US & Canada), with $10.99 a month or $99.99 a year subscriptions.  

Criterion Channel Lives! Founder Explains Going Solo After FilmStruck’s Death--“We put up nearly 1,000 films on Hulu for five years,” Becker said. “It’s not just a matter of making it available. It’s a matter of making it navigable, making it discoverable.”--indiewire.com

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Netflix $NFLX Q3 2018 Earnings Video Interview Oct 16, 6pm EDT

Q3 '18 Earnings Interview

Netflix Investor Relations video above published Oct 16, 2018.

House of Cards: Season 6 (Netflix Official Trailer)

House of Cards Season 6 Coming to Netflix on November 2.

Netflix Q3 2018 Earnings Video Interview October 16, 2018 6pm EDT 

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Netflix, Inc.

NASDAQ: NFLX
Principal domain: Netflix.com
Investor Relations: netflixinvestor.com

Q3 2018 Earnings Release--Netflix third-quarter 2018 financial results and business outlook--letter to shareholders (pdf) and financial statements (xlsx). $NFLX shares are UP in after hours trading.

See also Netflix Crushes Estimates, Renewing Faith After July Letdown--Streaming giant adds 6.96 million users globally in quarter,  Outlook shows international markets will pace company’s growth--Bloomberg.com.

A video interview with Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings, Chief Financial Officer David Wells, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, Chief Product Officer Greg Peters and VP, IR & Corporate Development Spencer Wang will be available at 6:00 p.m. EDT. The discussion will be moderated by Eric Sheridan, UBS, with questions submitted via email.  Questions from investors should be submitted as well in advance as possible for inclusion to eric.sheridan @ ubs.com. The video interview can be accessed on the Netflix Investor Relations YouTube channel.

Netflix is a media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. 

The primary business of Netflix is its subscription-based streaming media service, which offers online streaming films and television programs including those produced in-house. As of July 2018, Netflix has 130 million total subscribers worldwide, including 57.38 million in the United States. Its service is available worldwide except mainland China, Syria, North Korea and Crimea. Netflix also has offices in the Netherlands, Brazil, India, Japan, and South Korea.

See also: Barry Diller Says Hollywood Risks Getting Overtaken by Amazon and Netflix.

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Netflix $NFLX Q2 2018 Earnings Interview July 16, 6pm EDT

Netflix Q2 2018 Earnings Interview

Netflix Investor Relations video published Jul 16, 2018

Netflix, Inc.

• Netflix Second Quarter 2018 Earnings Interview above. Letter to shareholders below--shares are down in after-hours trading on the NASDAQ July 16, 2018.
• Date and Time: Jul 16, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT
• Principal domain: netflix.com
• Investor Relations: netflixinvestor.com / ir.netflix.com

UPDATE Netflix Q2 2018 Letter to shareholders:

Stock Exchange: Symbol || NASDAQ: NFLX

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Have We Reached Peak Netflix?

Can the streaming giant keep up its scintillating subscriber growth, particularly overseas, and retain the trust of investors as it continues to spend billions of dollars a year on content? TheStreet.com’s Annie Gaus and Eric Jhonsa give their perspectives (date published June 30, 2018).

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The Music Streaming Era: Consumers, Artists, Money (video)

Finding the Perfect Streaming Music Service

Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) video published Jun 25, 2018: You get tens of millions of songs for a few bucks a month no matter which you pick, but not all music services are the same. WSJ's David Pierce explains which is right choice for different types of music listeners.  Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Music, or Amazon Music?

Where the Money is in Music: Can Artistry Survive the Streaming Era?

CNBC.com video published June 27, 2018.

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All About Netflix & Netflix vs Amazon Prime (infographic)

Survey: Netflix is the No. 1 way to watch TV

Centric Digital (centricdigital.com) Chief Digital Officer Brian Manning on Netflix, its’ competitors and technology for smarter homes. Fox Business video above published Jul 5, 2018.

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Content & Distribution: Amazon $AMZN, Netflix $NFLX, Disney $DIS (video)

The Amazon of Entertainment

L2inc.com video above published May 3, 2018: Scott Galloway chats with The Atlantic's senior editor Derek Thompson about Disney, Netflix, and Amazon, and who will win the war for video entertainment content and distribution.

The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/author/derek-thompson/

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Tech Review | YouTube Targets Apple $AAPL Music and Spotify $SPOT

Tech Review (TR 2018-04-07)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) YouTube Targets Apple $AAPL Music and Spotify $SPOT, 2) But Will Music Streaming Ever Be Profitable?, 3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes, 4) ICYMI Tech News.

1) YouTube Targets Apple $AAPL Music and Spotify $SPOT 

Bloomberg.com video published Mar 23, 2018: YouTube is about to launch a paid music subscription service. It's trying to steal listeners from Apple Music $AAPL and Spotify $SPOT, which went public this week: Spotify’s direct listing allowed investors and employees sell up to 55.7 million ordinary shares without the company raising new capital or hiring a Wall Street bank or broker to underwrite the offering--Digging Into The Spotify IPO - Spotify (Pending:SPOT) | SeekingAlpha.com:  "founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon own 37.3% and 43.1% of the combined voting power, respectively, meaning shareholders will not have influence on the major decisions of the company."  See https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:SPOT (Spotify share price).

2) But Will Music Streaming Ever Be Profitable? Google $GOOG $GOOGL and Apple $AAPL may not care since the former is mainly trying to sell advertising while the latter is capturing market share for its devices and content channels. Amazon $AMZN likewise may be willing to break even. That may leave other streaming service providers like Spotify and Pandora in a tough competitive position:

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3) Investing

The Week: Markets ended the week DOWN on Friday--Wall Street drops over 2 pct on trade worries | Nasdaq.com--Worry, Fear? Let them wet their pants on Wall Street, ignore the noise--I'm still looking for the NASDAQ Composite to break to the upside this year, 3rd time the charm?--

Wall Street's Charging Bull--he's laughing at us right now:

Investing Notes:

• Brexit: The U.K. Is Doing Just Fine, Thanks | WSJ.com 23 Mar 2018: "For a country supposedly crawling out of the ruins of the Brexit vote, the U.K. has been having a strikingly good year so far. The number of people working stands at a record high, and income inequality is approaching a 30-year low, according to the Office for National Statistics. New orders for manufacturers are at their highest level in a generation, and employers in general are struggling to find enough staff to cope with demand. Even the (relatively new) national happiness index stands at a peak."
• Eurozone: Jean-Claude Trichet: We still live in an ‘abnormal situation’ | POLITICO.com: The former ECB head talks about grappling with the euro crisis and reforming the eurozone to avoid future ones ... “I’m seriously worried,” he says. See also Rise of Italian nationalism a blow to European economic stability | TheHill.com.

• Collapse of Cryptocurrencies in Q1: Even the Biggest Crashed 67% to 88% | WolfStreet.com

• Still Underwater: My 10-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis | WSJ.com: "Misery over real estate hasn’t ended—2.5 million homes are still worth less than their mortgages ... the story of one Wall Street Journal reporter’s upside-down American dream."
• Trump Hits 50% Approval Rating, Surpasses Obama At This Time In His Presidency | ZeroHedge.com April 2, 2018. [Editor's note: the mainstream media narratives are getting jaded, which may be why Trump's poll numbers appear resilient and to the upside in the face of such unprecedented unfavorable media bias. My take: the American people do not like nor trust bicoastal "elitists"--in media or inside the Beltway. If I were a Dem politico, I wouldn't underestimate Trump, he just keeps tweeting, etc.  As far as markets are concerned, you have to accept and adapt to the environment as it is, Trump is Trump, a fixture in the financial 'landscape' for now. Filter out the noise which dominates most 'news' today, something Warren Buffett has been telling us to do for years.

4) ICYMI Tech News:

• Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum | Bloomberg.com--How Google, carriers, and startups plan to capitalize on the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, likely to be freed from US military control this year--A bold plan to open up spectrum could rock the wireless industry and prove a $260 billion win for consumers. See also Alphabet, Quietly, Just Stunned The World | SeekingAlpha.com: "Waymo and Honda (NYSE:HMC) reportedly will build a self-driving delivery vehicle together."
• Google is equipping more rural school buses with Wi-Fi and Chromebooks | TheVerge.com: a partnership between Google and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), spread across 16 districts in 12 states.
• Now's The Time To Buy This Discounted Tech Giant | Alphabet Inc. | SeekingAlpha.com

• Samsung's Smartphone Business Could Face Some Headwinds | forbes.com: Samsung is losing ground to Chinese smartphone manufacturers in growth markets.
• Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel | Bloomberg.com

• The End of Windows | Stratechery.com by Ben Thompson: "Nadella, though, had a short-term problem: Microsoft’s most important customers — enterprises — hated Windows 8."

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Tech Review | How Facebook $FB Pays So Little Tax In India (video)

Tech Review (TR 2018-03-03)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) How Facebook $FB Pays So Little Tax In India, 2) Twitter Exec On The Future Of Streaming Sports, 3) Investing: The Week: Beware Wall Street's Charging Bull, Investing Notes, 4)ICYMI Tech News.

1) How Facebook $FB Pays So Little Tax In India

India last year became Facebook’s biggest user base with 241 million accounts, but reported revenue was just 0.2 per cent of its global total. Now the Indian government is targeting US tech giants for a revenue grab. Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Feb 22, 2018:

2)Twitter Exec On The Future Of Streaming Sports

Laura Froelich, Twitter’s global director of sports partnerships, discusses the streaming media landscape among the major sports leagues with CNBC.com’s Eric Chemi.

3) Investing

The Week--S&P 500--Beware Wall Street's Charging Bull:

Tech Stocks Thumb Nose At Trump Trade War Fears As These 4 Industry Sectors Rock | investors.com March 2, 2018: "Perhaps more importantly, the Nasdaq is finding bullish support at its still-rising 50-day moving average. The market value-weighted index, boosted no doubt by strength in FANG stocks and other tech giants, is up 4.4% year to date."

Trade Wars? Trump tweeted Friday:“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!" German Stocks Crash Near 1-Year Lows On Trade Fears | ZeroHedge.com: "As Bloomberg notes, "the threat of a trade war was always likely to hit the export driven German economy hardest.""

"Don't Try To Make Sense Of This": Major Bank Gives Up On Today's Market | ZeroHedge.com Feb 28, 2018. 

Gartman Stopped Out On Market Short | ZeroHedge.com: "... we have been wrong in being short of equities, for there comes a time when the action of the market tells us that we have to admit the error of our ways ... facts make no difference for prices are higher…"

Beware Wall Street's Charging Bull:

Investing Notes:

• Buffett says 'terrible mistake' for long-term investors to be in bonds | Reuters.com

• Byron Wien Market Commentary | Blackstone.com: "... I still expect that the Standard & Poor’s 500 will close above 3000 sometime in the second half ..."
• Fed’s QE Unwind Marches Forward Relentlessly | WolfStreet.com: "This Fed isn’t going to try to bail out every whiner on Wall Street. It has been clear about that. It won’t take Wall-Street whining seriously until credit starts freezing up – and the credit markets are far away from that."

• Deutsche Bank credit strategist Jim Reid: "rates and yields will continue to structurally move higher in the quarters and years ahead regardless of any short-term moves, and we hope policymakers won't be derailed by the inevitable macro issues that this will bring."

• Eurozone: The gulf separating the two camps of eurozone reformists | ft.com: "The German-led group remains opposed to the France and Italy contingent on sovereign debt."
• Eurozone reformers act as if the crisis never happened | .ft.com: "Here is a recipe for disaster. You start off by taking the two most toxic financial instruments of the past 20 years, and then merge them ..." See also Markets unprepared for a Europe without Draghi and Merkel | South China Morning Post | scmp.com: "International investors have a blind spot: the looming departure of the two dominant figures in European politics and finance"--Mario Draghi, the ECB’s president, steps down in October 2019.
• Eurozone: A New Cunning Plan to Allay Banking Jitters but "there’s a problem ... Spain’s Deposit Guarantee Fund (DGF) doesn’t have nearly enough funds in its coffers to cover large institutional deposits." [Likewise severely insufficient funding in Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, France and Germany]--WolfStreet.com.
• Italian elections Sunday, March 4, 2018--what the polls say--general expectation is for a three-way stalemate between Berlusconi’s center-right, a progressive PD-led alliance and M5S--top issues: unemployment, immigrants, Euroskepticism.

• "CalPERS Is Near Insolvency; It Needs A Bailout Soon" | ZeroHedge.com: "... deepest fissures in US society: between public and private workers, between taxpayers and benefits recipients, between the young and old, [may] all bubble to the surface at the same time ..." Editor's Note: Who's going to 'bail out' California's Democratic Party & Public Unions' created problem? Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff? LOL!
• Trump Is Winning | POLITICO.com: "Donald Trump is on track to win re-election to the presidency of the United States ... He’s cut taxes. He’s rolled back regulations. He’s put ISIS on its heels. The economy and the stock market are humming along again ... " See also Brad Parscale Will Be Donald Trump's 2020 Campaign Manager | WIRED.com.

• Your First Thought Is Rarely Your Best Thought: Lessons on Thinking | fs.blog

4) ICYMI Tech News:

• YouTube [Owned by Google / Alphabet $GOOG $GOOGL] Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Men, Lawsuit Says  | WSJ.com: Former recruiter sues Google, says YouTube set minority hiring quotas, stopped hiring white and Asian males last year for tech jobs, and fired him for complaining.
• Despite the toxic pollution, oppressive government, and closed internet (The Great Firewall), Beijing, China, is trying to lure foreign talent to its version of Silicon Valley reports Reuters.com. But Beijing's Z-Park only has a little over 10,000 foreign hires, whereas in Silicon Valley, a third of the population comprises tech talent from all over the world.

• Is Facebook At A Tipping Point?  (NASDAQ:FB) | SeekingAlpha.com

• Google: How YouTube TV Gets To $10 Billion - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | SeekingAlpha.com. But "You can have a million views a month and still not be able to make rent"--‘Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty | Bloomberg.com: top 3% of most-viewed YouTube channels receive around 85% of all views, attract 1.4M+ views/month, but only earn about $17K per year each in advertising revenue.
• EU gives Facebook and Google three months to tackle extremist content | TheGuardian.com

• Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) files for its unusual IPO | Axios.com

• Qualcomm swallows the poison pill--SeekingAlpha.com. But also read Qualcomm proposes further price talks with Broadcom: “We are willing to jointly select a law firm with antitrust expertise that you would fully brief on your licensing plans”--Qualcomm
• One thing that can go horribly wrong for Amazon's HQ2 search | South Florida Business Journal | bizjournals.com
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• Ford is setting up for an autonomous ride-hail and delivery business in Miami | Recode.net: "The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride-hail service and setting up a fleet-management center."
• SEC Launches Cryptocurrency Probe | WSJ.com: "subpoenas to parties engaged in booming market for initial coin offerings"

• Huawei boasts its next smartphone will be 'much better' than iPhone X and aims to leapfrog Apple in a year | cnbc.com

• US, Britain in cybersecurity divide over Chinese tech firm Huawei | FoxNews.com

• Statement by Acting FTC Chair on Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling in FTC v. AT&T Mobility, LLC | Federal Trade Commission: “I welcome the Ninth Circuit’s ruling as good news for consumers. It ensures that the FTC can and will continue to play its vital role in safeguarding consumer interests including privacy protection, as well as stopping anticompetitive market behavior.”
• T-Mobile and Sprint name first 5G cities, as race to build next-gen network intensifies | GeekWire.com

• Android Oreo vs Android One vs Android Go: All their differences, explained | ZDNet.com

• ZTE's first Android Go phone, Tempo Go, costs $80 | CNET.com

• 'It's going to end in tears': Reality check is coming for subscription-thirsty publishers | Digiday.com: Publishers are pivoting to subscriptions, as they did to video, but industry execs warn reader revenue is a difficult business model to implement.
• Best Buy will close all of its 250 mobile phone stores in the US by end of May--WSJ.com.

• Wipeout--Easy Come, Easy Go--Twitter has written down $66.4 million of its $70M SoundCloud investment: "SoundCloud finally secured a Hail Mary deal that included $170 million of new funding from the Raine Group and Singapore’s Temasek in August of 2017. However, that deal came with a corporate restructure that wiped out many of the start-up’s early investors, and ultimately also forced out SoundCloud’s founding CEO Alexander Ljung."--Variety.com.

From the Reuters.com feed:

• EU plans new tax for tech giants up to 5 percent of gross revenues

• U.S. to overtake Russia as top oil producer by 2019 at latest: IEA

• Big Corn, Big Oil square off in White House biofuels meeting

• Nokia CEO sees big 5G rollouts nearly a year ahead of schedule | Reuters.com: "Far and away, the U.S. and China activity will dwarf Europe ..."
• Comcast's $31 billion Sky bid crashes Murdoch and Disney show

• China pushes back against criticism of plan for Xi to stay in power: President for life?

• Big pharma, big data: why drugmakers want your health records

• U.S. telecom agency [FCC] plans new spectrum auction to speed 5G networks

• NRA honors FCC chair with rifle for repealing 'net neutrality' [Editor's note: You can't make this stuff up!]

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LIVE on Twitter Dec 18: TicToc by Bloomberg, 24-Hour Social News Network

Bloomberg Media (domains: bloombergmedia.com and bloomberg.com) debuts its built-for-Twitter 24-hour news network TicToc by Bloomberg on Monday, December 18, 2017--domain: twitter.com/tictoc, Twitter handle: @tictoc, hashtag #TicTocNews--with LIVE streaming video at live.twitter.com/tictoc.

According to Variety.com, TicToc will have a dedicated team of about 50 reporters, editors, producers and social-media analysts, overseen by M. Scott Havens, Bloomberg’s global head of digital, and Mindy Massucci, who is the editorial lead of TicToc by Bloomberg, which is being touted as "the world’s first 'social news network' combining Twitter’s global reach and user-generated commentary with the pedigree of Bloomberg’s news-reporting expertise."

For Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), TicToc by Bloomberg will the first 24-hour live network exclusively available on the social platform. AT&T, CA Technologies, CME Group, Goldman Sachs, Infiniti, and TD Ameritrade, are each paying between $1.5 million to $3 million to be "presenting partners" of TicToc by Bloomberg, according Axios.com.

TicToc's content will be a mix of breaking news content culled from Twitter (curated and verified by Bloomberg) combined with Bloomberg’s own live video reporting, and will be a completely separate product from Bloomberg Television. The @tictoc twitter feed is embedded further below.

A new live 24-hour news network from Bloomberg is coming to Twitter https://t.co/kAJqhvHJgk

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Netflix $NFLX Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Video July 17 6pm EDT & Replay

Netflix $NFLX Q2 2017 Earnings LIVE Video & Replay

Netflix Second Quarter 2017 Earnings video via Netflix Investor Relations | YouTube.com,
LIVE Jul 17, 2017, 3pm PDT / 6pm EDT.

Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $2.79B, vs. $2.76B expected, and total streaming subscriptions grew 5.2M to 104M, vs. 3.2M expected; stock up in after-hours trading. 

• Q2 17 Letter to shareholders 1.5 MB (pdf)

• Q2 17 Financials Statements (July 17, 2017) 76.3 KB

• Content Accounting Overview 2.5 MB

NASDAQ: NFLX: Netflix shares are up over 63% over the past year through last Friday:

Principal domain: Netflix.com

Netflix, Inc. is the world's ninth-largest internet company by revenue. Founded on August 29, 1997, Scotts Valley, CA, by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, Netflix is an entertainment company that specializes in and provides streaming media or video-on-demand (VOD) online, as well as still providing its legacy business of DVDs by mail.

When Netflix reports its second quarter earnings, shareholders will closely look at how many subscribers the world’s largest video streaming service was able to add in the U.S. and internationally. According to Netflix, the biggest driver of subscriber additions is the company’s exclusive original content. And, at least according to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the company has been doing a great job with its own TV shows. Netflix has established itself as a household name for quality content:

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TechReview | Apple Going 'Hollywood' With New Content Plan (video)

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Feature •  Technology giant Apple Inc. (apple.com | $AAPL) has reportedly been in talks with veteran Hollywood producers about buying rights to originally scripted television programs. The move could be transformative for Hollywood and help offset slowing sales for Apple:

Apple Going 'Hollywood' With New Content Plan. Video above published by WSJ.com on Jan 13, 2017.

Apple's Plan To Enter Original Content Space | Tech Bet | CNBC.com:

Video above published on Jan 12, 2017: Apple's plans to create its own TV shows and movies in order to compete with rival streaming services. See also:

• Why Apple is making its original TV content push now | Macworld.com 
• Does the iPhone still matter? Huawei, not Apple, now drives the mobile conversation | ZDNet.com
• 'No doubt' that Apple's best days are behind it, analyst Toni Sacconaghi says | CNBC.com
• Apple Must Face Consumer Lawsuit Over iPhone Apps Monopoly | Bloomberg.com and U.S. appeals court revives antitrust lawsuit against Apple | Reuters.com
• Tesla Is Snatching Apple's Stars to Make Itself the New Apple | WIRED.com
• Apple and Samsung set to go to court again over iPhone infringement | BGR.com

Other Tech News:

•  Venture capital is going to murder Medium.com | BusinessInsider.com: "... The web, of course, will go on ... Especially for anyone who moved to Medium but hedged their bets by keeping their own domains ... It didn’t have to be this way ... [Ev] surely had enough in the bank from previous exploits. Started slower. Not hired 150 people before there was a path to profitability, let alone sustainability."

•  EU committee recommends rules on robots including mandatory kill switches, insurance, taxes, more--vote to be in February--BBC.com.

•  WikiLeaks' Assange calls US Gov report on Russia hacking 'embarrassing' | CNET.com: "U.S. intelligence report ... a "press release" with a political agenda."

  

Quick Takes:

• Snapchat picks London: Snapchat becomes latest tech firm to pick London despite [or because of] Brexit | Reuters.com
• Update: Amazon to create more than 100,000 full-time [U.S.] jobs in the  next 18 months |- MarketWatch.com
• Bitcoin Collapses in China, Chinese Latecomers Get Fleeced | WolfStreet.com
• China's WeChat seeks slice of Apple's app store with 'mini' function | Reuters.com
• App.net shutting down Twitter-like social platform on March 14, open sources code | VentureBeat.com

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TechReview | 2017 Will Be The Year Of Amazon $AMZN (video)

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Feature •  This will be the year of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN):

Amazon: The Case For A $1 Trillion Market Cap & Debunking The No Profit Misconception - Amazon.com, Inc. | SeekingAlpha.com: "2018 revenue and operating cash flow are on pace to hit $200B+ and $35B+, respectively, paving the way for a $1T valuation."

Introducing Amazon Go and the world’s most advanced shopping technology:

Amazon Go is a new kind of store featuring the world’s most advanced shopping technology. No lines, no checkout – just grab and go! Learn more at http://amazon.com/go. Video above published Dec 5, 2016, by Amazon.com, Inc.

NYU Stern marketing professor Scott Galloway’s 2017 predictions:

Loser: subscription based businesses--despite the hype only three percent of U.S. shoppers have signed up for a subscription program and fifty-nine percent say they're not interested. The most overhyped acquisition of 2016: Shave Club for which Unilever paid six million dollars per employee. Subscriptions are not the disruption we'd all expected.

Winner: Amazon--the move to open stores [see Amazon Go video above] puts pressure on brick-and-mortar retailers to rethink the checkout experience. This will be the year of Amazon--a third of all batteries and  of all baby wipes sold online are from Amazon's private label. This is the end of the brand era, people now shop by category not by brand, especially with voice search devices such as Alexa, removing price and brand from the equation. Amazon has brought together artificial intelligence, fulfillment, your purchase history, and now it's going to be the first trillion dollar market cap company, offering you click ordering, and even sending you your stuff before you even ask for it. This is the year of Amazon. The pecking order of  in terms of market cap was 1. Apple, 2. Google, 3, Amazon, and 4. Facebook, but as Amazon leapfrogs Siri with Alexa and Google loses traction as consumers spend more time in mobile apps, the new order will be 1. Amazon, 2. Facebook, 3. Google, and 4. Apple, with Amazon becoming the most valuable company in the world.

See also: Apple Doesn’t Hear The Echo | Lefsetz.com: "... you’re gonna control your music via voice, you just don’t know it yet. And the first mover here is Amazon."

Other Tech News:

•  CES 2017: These are the 7 big trends everyone will be talking about | CNET.com: "... the main topic of conversation this year will be the incoming administration of Donald Trump, who takes office later this month [Jan. 20]. That means a huge swath of laws and regulations that directly affect the global tech industry -- everything from trade policy, tariffs, information security, network neutrality rules, tax policies, encryption, financial regulations and immigration, to name just a few -- could well be changing, some radically ..."

•  Layoffs announced at Medium.com: "... it’s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet. It simply doesn’t serve people. In fact, it’s not designed to. The vast majority of articles, videos, and other “content” we all consume on a daily basis is paid for — directly or indirectly — by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals. And it is measured, amplified, and rewarded based on its ability to do that. Period. As a result, we get…well, what we get. And it’s getting worse ..."--Ev Williams, Renewing Medium’s focus | blog.medium.com  (emphasis added).

•  T-Mobile added more than 8.2 million new wireless customers in 2016. T-Mobile's larger competitors, AT&T and Verizon, haven't grown their phone customer base according to T-Mobile CEO John Legere who added that T-Mobile has been responsible for most of the industry's growth in new phone subscribers over the past four years--CNET.com.

•  Information Overload, Chaos Syndrome, Smartphone Addiction: a recent study reported young adult mobile smartphone users were using their phones five hours a day, at 85 separate times. Most interactions were for less than 30 seconds, and the users weren’t fully aware of how addicted they were, thinking they picked up their phones half as much as they actually did, the technology had seized control of around one-third of the young adults’ waking hours--blogs.cfainstitute.org. 

Quick Takes:

• Snapchat Faked Growth Numbers, Former Employee Alleges | Variety.com
• Behind the Numbers of Virtual Reality’s Sluggish Debut | TechnologyReview.com: "After years of hype, high-end VR headsets finally launched in 2016. Here’s why you probably don’t have one yet ..."
• Streaming overtakes U.S. digital music sales for first time: Nielsen | Reuters.com
• Qualcomm: Make More FRANDs, And Fewer Enemies (NASDAQ:QCOM) | SeekingAlpha.com
• Verizon executive says company unsure about Yahoo deal | Reuters.com
• SoundCloud "may run out of cash this year" after $52 million loss in 2015 | factmag.com: "Its funding may run out if its subscription service isn’t a hit."

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