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TikTok Owner ByteDance Advances Music-Streaming Service on Mainland
TikTok Owner ByteDance Advances Music-Streaming Service on Mainland
April 15, 2022  |  Streaming

ByteDance, operator of popular short video-sharing platform TikTok and Douyin, its Chinese version, has launched a music-streaming app as it seeks to compete with market-leading...

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Amazon’s Andy Jassy Hints More Prime Benefits on the Way
Amazon’s Andy Jassy Hints More Prime Benefits on the Way
April 14, 2022  |  Amazon

In his first letter to shareholders since taking the reins from Jeff Bezos in July, Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy provided a history lesson...

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Livestreamed Personal Shopping Lets Influencers Walk Endless Aisles — Rather than Customers
Livestreamed Personal Shopping Lets Influencers Walk Endless Aisles — Rather than Customers
March 28, 2022  |  Streaming

You’re browsing an upscale apparel store when someone enters and begins livestreaming themselves selling the clothes you’re personally browsing to a huge online audience. It...

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Sony Expected to Unveil PlayStation Subscription
Sony Expected to Unveil PlayStation Subscription
March 25, 2022  |  Subscriptions

Sony Group could introduce a PlayStation video game subscription service “as early as next week,” Bloomberg reported Friday (March 25). The subscription service — which...

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Netflix Adds Game Developer Boss Fight Entertainment
Netflix Adds Game Developer Boss Fight Entertainment
March 25, 2022  |  Streaming

Streaming giant Netflix has added game developer Boss Fight Entertainment to its in-house creative team, four months after the platform debuted mobile games, in a...

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Netflix Launching New Mobile Games This Month
Netflix Launching New Mobile Games This Month
March 22, 2022  |  Subscription Commerce

Streaming giant Netflix on Tuesday (March 22) announced the release of several new Netflix Games on Android and iOS devices, available free to all subscribers...

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Will Amazon Make Streaming Shoppable?
Will Amazon Make Streaming Shoppable?
March 21, 2022  |  Amazon

The Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” which debuted in May of 2021, didn’t exactly start off on the right foot. Panned by critics and viewers,...

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Three Pandemic Nesting Trends Likely to Continue in 2022
Three Pandemic Nesting Trends Likely to Continue in 2022
March 20, 2022  |  Coronavirus

Inflation in the U.S. and a new wave of COVID-19 infections elsewhere in the world are likely to slow people’s transition out of the house...

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Netflix Tests Membership Sharing for a Fee
Netflix Tests Membership Sharing for a Fee
March 17, 2022  |  Streaming

Netflix Inc. is assessing a feature that will allow account holders to share their membership beyond a members’ household for an extra fee, the streaming...

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