Month: July 2022

Our world is saturated with TVs — in medical offices, restaurants, the back seats of taxis and even on sidewalks outside of bars.

YouTube’s ad revenue growth fell short of analysts’ expectations again in Q2, at 4.8%.

Regulators have raised competition concerns over a proposed merger between French media holding companies Groupe TF1 and Groupe M6–owned by Groupe Bouygues–and RTL Group (part of German multinational Bertelsmann), particularly around the impact on the advertising market. The two companies had agreed a merger to form a broadcasting giant in March in a deal that…

Former CNN prime-time host Chris Cuomo has been tapped by rising cable news network NewsNation for a new prime-time news show this fall. Cuomo revealed the news of his new prime-time show during an
interview discussing his CNN departure on NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live” on Tuesday night.

Ecommerce platform Shopify has laid off 10% of its global workforce, with its chief executive telling staff in a memo the business made the “wrong bet” on how long a pandemic-fueled surge in online shopping would continue. The Canadian company reported 10,000 employees at the end of 2021 in a securities filing. By the end…

Green, it turns out, isn’t always the greenest option. Although green plastic made from polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, is recyclable, it doesn’t always get recycled. Any additives, such as color, make plastic more difficult to repurpose, which means fewer facilities are willing to process it. “There is no value for green [plastic],” Jan Dell, founder…

Babylist is expanding its family… of services. The vertical marketplace and ecommerce platform for all things baby and beyond has launched a full-service content studio, called The Push. It joins Babylist’s suite of offerings for brand partners looking to connect with the platform’s 8 million customers, 3 million email subscribers and more than 1.7 million…

Democratic senators lacked actionable gun data for their negotiations—so they passed mental health reform instead.

Summer is a great season for enjoying a cold one with friends in the backyard or on a restaurant patio, minus one thing: mosquitoes. And to make matters worse, the bloodsucking insects are more attracted to people with alcohol in their system than those who haven’t taken a drink, according to science. To help the…