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A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!

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The recent troubles in entertainment, though, reflect a longer term disruption that has occurred in the business, with the rise of streaming as an alternative to the traditional platforms for movies and television shows. That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business.

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Affirm’s IPO Filing Shows Narrowing Losses, Surging GMV And BNPL’s Growing Appeal

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Customer Concentration . As for the pandemic, Affirm noted in the filing that “our revenue from merchant partners in the travel, hospitality and entertainment industries declined, but we saw a significant increase in revenue from merchant partners offering home fitness equipment, home office products and home furnishings.”. a year ago.

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What Investors Need to Know

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Categories include smart contract platforms , media and entertainment (metaverse) , DeFi , and infrastructure applications. . MV Index Solutions (MVIS), a VanEck subsidiary, has developed a classification scheme to categorize digital asset coins in a way that captures the value and use case related to a coin.

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Maintaining Control When Employee Spend Looks More Like Procurement

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” This has blurred the line between procurement and travel and entertainment (T&E) in dramatic fashion with profound implications. “The value in saying you never have to do an expense report again outstrips any value you’d get out of a traditional card program.” ”

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Amazon Prime’s Brazil Debut Hits Local eCommerce Firms

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Amazon competitors also offer free shipping above a certain price, but none has an established entertainment component. When Amazon first launched in Brazil, it concentrated on selling eReaders, books and streaming movies. However, Magazine Luiza started selling books online in April as a way to better compete with the eCommerce giant.

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Target Updates COVID-19 Results; Will Reconfigure Stores

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Beginning in mid-March, the company experienced what it says was “an even stronger surge in traffic and sales, with category mix heavily concentrated in the Essentials and Food & Beverage categories.” Increased sales were also seen in Home Office and Entertainment, while Apparel & Accessories dropped.

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SoundHound Raises $100M In A New Round Of Funding

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“We believe that connectivity in vehicles will become a part of everyday life in the near future, and it will soon be possible to control entertainment, navigation and real-time driving information by voice command,” said Sajjad Khan, VP of Digital Vehicle & Mobility at Daimler, which invested in the company.