Katie Silver / BBC: Alibaba’s annual Singles Day event sees slowest ever sales growth of 8.5% YoY since it was launched in 2009, but customer spending still hit a record $84.5B — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Singles Day is known for being the world’s biggest online shopping extravaganza. Source link
Amazon is introducing a new feature on Prime Video that will allow users to share video clips from their favourite series and movies with friends. With the latest functionality, users will be able to share Prime Video content video clips of up to 30 seconds on social media channels or via direct messages. It is … Read more
Contrast that with life on the feed, where each post is a performance informed by the user’s specific and invisible perspective of a platform they don’t totally understand. Chat’s blessing and curse has always been that it’s hard to monetize talking — it would feel, much more than an ad in a feed, like interruption. … Read more
Get a sneak peek of Hawkeye on Disney Plus now. Marvel What’s next for Marvel? Find out in a selection of documentaries exploring the past and future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, now streaming on Disney Plus. Disney is celebrating the second birthday of its streaming service on Friday with a slew of teasers, videos and announcements … Read more
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Streamers are seeking out unscripted TV, including documentaries and reality TV, as a cheaper and popular alternative to the prestige shows they first produced — Netflix has grown into the world’s biggest buyer of unscripted programming. Its competitors are following suit. Source link
General Motors will launch 10 electric vehicles (EVs) for the South Korean market by 2025, but has no plans yet to manufacture EVs in the country, Steven Kiefer, the head of GM’s international operations said on Friday. The No. 1 US automaker, which warned last year that persistent industrial action was preventing further investment in … Read more
Shang-Chi hasn’t been available to stream, or even rent online, since its theatrical release in early September. Marvel Marvel‘s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is one of the biggest box office hits of the pandemic, sitting atop the rankings as the highest-grossing movie in the US so far this year. Its box … Read more
Matt Przybyla / VentureBeat: CoreWeave, which offers a specialized cloud service for GPU-based workloads, raises $50M led by Magnetar Capital — CoreWeave, a specialized cloud services provider for GPU-based workloads, said it has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to enable companies to scale their infrastructure, cut costs, and improve efficiencies. Source link
Red Notice — out today on Netflix — is officially an action comedy. But it’s not good at either of those main ingredients. Mostly, it keeps throwing a series of one-liners without ever committing to its jokes. The Netflix film, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Skyscraper), doesn’t have a personality — it screams … Read more
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Chile-based Houm, which uses AI to help users find the optimal rental or sale price of a property based on similar properties nearby, raises a $35M Series A — Less than six months after raising $8 million in seed funding, Chilean proptech startup Houm has raised $35 million in a … Read more