Month: August 2024

Barnes & Noble is on track to open 58 new locations before 2025 — more stores than it’s opened in a single year since at least 2009.

Letting programs learn through “open-ended” experimentation may unlock remarkable new capabilities, as well as new risks.

Admiral, a startup that first got its start with ad block recovery tools, announced the close of a $19 million growth equity and debt funding round on Wednesday.

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LG Ad Solutions chose to work with an AI workflow automation platform, and the partnership saved it 25,000 hours of manual work within four months. That doesn’t mean the company doesn’t need humans.

Kenneth Suh, Chief Strategy Officer, Nexxen

Sports and streaming seem to be everywhere of late — at the upfronts, dominating the news and landing mentions on major companies’ earnings calls. They’re practically inescapable, and the subsequent convergence of sports and streaming is reshaping how fans access and experience live events. Major platforms, including Netflix, Apple, Roku and more, are leading the charge here and the opportunities presented are seemingly endless.

Take, for example, the buzz around a potential, groundbreaking deal between FIFA and Apple, reportedly valued at $1 billion. This partnership could see Apple securing exclusive rights to a World Cup-style tournament. Similarly, Roku’s announcement to stream Major League Baseball games and Apple’s previous deal with Major League Soccer underscore the increasing commitment of streaming platforms to live sports. 

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The automaker is killing its electric three-row SUV, delaying a next-gen pickup, and committing to future gas and diesel vehicles, citing a lack of consumer interest in its full-EV cars.

When Brigitte King heard about Google’s third third-party cookie deprecation delay in April, she thought, “Oh no, here we go again.” As the chief digital officer of Colgate-Palmolive, a big part of King’s job has been to evangelize the need for cookieless prep, which is hard to do without the urgency of a deadline. And […]

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In hilarious, entertaining, but also poignantly serious back-to-back speeches, the Obamas articulated things we’ve all been wondering about Trump for way too long.

Bronfman would essentially give controlling owner National Amusements the same price tag as the Skydance Media proposal — $1.75 billion. This would be a total package of $2.4 billion when including
debt.