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Has Netflix Peaked?
The world is beginning to reopen from Covid-19 lockdowns, and for the hours we do still spend at home in front of a screen there have never been so many streaming-TV options. Against this backdrop, the news that Netflix Inc. managed to add 4 million subscribers last quarter could be viewed as a cause for celebration. But it wasn’t — not by investors anyway.
El streaming está cambiando la manera en que se le paga a todos en Hollywood
Bloomberg Opinión — Durante casi dos años, a medida que el Covid-19 ha alejado a la gente de las salas de cine y las ha mantenido frente a sus televisores, la economía de Hollywood se ha transformado. Las aplicaciones digitales de streaming han desplazado a la taquilla, lo que a su vez está cambiando el modo en que se paga a todo el mundo en el negocio, incluso a las estrellas de los sectores más ricos del mundo del espectáculo. El cambio no ha estado exento de sobresaltos.
Will the Stars Ever Make Money in This Town Again?
Bloomberg Opinion — Over nearly two years, as Covid-19 has kept people away from movie theaters and in front of their TVs, the economics of Hollywood have been transformed. Digital streaming apps have displaced the box office, and that in turn is changing how everyone in the business gets paid — even stars in the wealthiest reaches of show business. The shift hasn’t always gone smoothly.
Will the Stars Ever Make Money in This Town Again?
The shift hasn't always gone smoothly. Last summer, one of film's biggest actors, Scarlett Johansson, fought back - and in the process offered a glimpse of streaming's drastic financial impact. July 9 was to be the much-delayed date when movie-theater audiences would get to see Johansson play Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow - only the second female superhero in Disney's Marvel franchise to get her own film.
Mark it down: January promises big, big discounts
By Tara Lachapelle Updated: 3 hours ago Published: 3 hours ago A lone shopper pushes a cart past a display for Christmas sales in a Costco warehouse late Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, in Lone Tree, Colo. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press) This Christmas shopping season is not such a holly-jolly time to be a retailer. Winter goods have arrived late. Temporary employees are hard to find.
Mark It Down: January Promises Big, Big Discounts
This Christmas shopping season is not such a holly-jolly time to be a retailer. Winter goods have arrived late. Temporary employees are hard to find. And if those challenges weren't enough, a new Covid-19 variant is threatening to put a fresh pandemic damper on the holidays. Although retailers have benefited from boisterous consumer spending in recent months, the possibility remains that unabated inflation and falling rates of saving among Americans will soon slow demand.
Blocking WarnerMedia-Discovery Deal Won't Fix Streaming
Greater choice is supposed to be better for consumers. So why is it that the abundance of streaming TV apps - Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Discovery+, Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock and on and on - is costing subscribers so much? Streaming has somehow thrown economic gospel on its head in time for an expected wave of industry mergers, presenting President Joe Biden's energized team of competition enforcers with a quandary.
AT&T Looks Better, Except for Its Stock Price
General Electric Co. and Johnson & Johnson spent generations building two of the world's most recognizable conglomerates, until a stock market disenchanted with complex companies helped send them on a plodding path toward epochal breakups, announced within days of each other in November. Indeed, 2021 has been the year for giant companies to burst into fragments - a trend kicked off by AT&T Inc., a company known for its historic cycles of getting bigger and smaller.
Lachapelle: Not happy with holiday deals? Wait a few weeks
To snag some of this year’s Black Friday weekend deals, a car won’t do you much good — try an ocean liner. Plenty of would-be holiday gifts are still at sea, caught up in a mess of global shipping delays. But shoppers who can’t find what they’re looking for this week may have another savings event to look forward to. Call it Black January. Retailers including Nike Inc.
National View: Black Friday deals not cutting it? Wait a couple weeks
Columns From the column: "Shoppers who can't find what they're looking for this week may have another savings event to look forward to. Call it Black January." Written By: Tara Lachapelle | 2:00 pm, Nov. 25, 2021 × Guy Parsons / Cagle Cartoons To snag some of this year's Black Friday deals, a car won't do you much good. Try an ocean liner. Plenty of would-be holiday gifts are still at sea, caught up in a mess of global shipping delays.
Black Friday deals not cutting it? Wait a few weeks
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Opinion: Black Friday deals not cutting it? Wait a few weeks
To snag some of this year's Black Friday deals, a car won't do you much good — try an ocean liner. Plenty of would-be holiday gifts are still at sea, caught up in a mess of global shipping delays. But shoppers who can't find what they're looking for this week may have another savings event to look forward to. Call it Black January. Retailers including Nike Inc.
Black Friday deals not cutting it? Wait a few weeks
To snag some of this year’s Black Friday deals, a car won’t do you much good — try an ocean liner. Plenty of would-be holiday gifts are still at sea, caught up in a mess of global shipping delays. But shoppers who can’t find what they’re looking for this week may have another savings event to look forward to. Call it Black January. Retailers including Nike Inc.
Lachapelle: Black Friday deals not cutting it? Wait a few weeks
Country United States of AmericaUS Virgin IslandsUnited States Minor Outlying IslandsCanadaMexico, United Mexican StatesBahamas, Commonwealth of theCuba, Republic ofDominican RepublicHaiti, Republic ofJamaicaAfghanistanAlbania, People's Socialist Republic ofAlgeria, People's Democratic Republic ofAmerican SamoaAndorra, Principality ofAngola, Republic ofAnguillaAntarctica (the territory South of 60 deg S)Antigua and BarbudaArgentina, Argentine RepublicArmeniaArubaAustralia, Commonwealth...
Monster and Constellation could be a potent mixed drink
Talk about a monster merger: Coca-Cola Co.-backed Monster Beverage Corp., whose logo has come to symbolize the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s octagon cage, is said to be exploring a deal with acquisitive brewer Constellation Brands Inc. This megadeal would potentially fuse beer, energy drinks, liquor, soda and even marijuana in an unforeseen jolt to the global beverage industry.
Monster and Constellation Could Be a Potent Mixed Drink
Talk about a monster merger: Coca-Cola Co.-backed Monster Beverage Corp., whose logo has come to symbolize the Ultimate Fighting Championship's octagon cage, is said to be exploring a deal with acquisitive brewer Constellation Brands Inc. This megadeal would potentially fuse beer, energy drinks, liquor, soda and even marijuana in an unforeseen jolt to the global beverage industry.
Black Friday Deals Not Cutting It? Wait a Few Weeks.
To snag some of this year's Black Friday deals, a car won't do you much good - try an ocean liner. Plenty of would-be holiday gifts are still at sea, caught up in a mess of global shipping delays. But shoppers who can't find what they're looking for this week may have another savings event to look forward to. Call it Black January. Retailers including Nike Inc.
Victoria's Secret Is Back But Faces a New Hurdle
Now making what women want. (Photographer: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret) Victoria's Secret & Co. is finding that business is much better when you root out misogyny and create products that customers actually want. (Who knew?) But supply-chain setbacks mean that it may take a bit longer for shoppers to get a full sense of the new and improved brand.
TARA LACHAPELLE: Peloton stock surges as fitness company peddles shares
Fitness enthusiasts love cringeworthy motivational cliches such as “sweat is your fat crying” and “pain is just weakness leaving the body”. Investors have their own version. Their white-knuckle ride in shares of Peloton Interactive has them turning to the stock market’s favourite when-things-get-hard platitude: “The cheaper it gets, the more attractive it is to an acquirer.” At least that’s the hope.
Peloton's Stock Price Surge Makes Sense in Deal Land
Fitness enthusiasts love cringeworthy motivational cliches such as "sweat is your fat crying" and "pain is just weakness leaving the body." Investors have their own version. Their white-knuckle ride in shares of Peloton Interactive Inc. has them turning to the stock market's favorite when-things-get-hard platitude: "The cheaper it gets, the more attractive it is to an acquirer." At least that's the hope.
Walmart Is Already Planning for a Post-Inflation World
HOUSTON, TEXAS - AUGUST 04: A price-tag is shown at a Walmart store on August 04, 2021 in Houston, Texas. The cost of back-to-school items is on the rise due to a combination of delays in U.S. manufacturing and heightened consumer demand for goods. The steep increases are partially due to both elementary and college-aged students returning back to school after missing in-person class sessions during the pandemic.
Disney+ Celebration Gets a Damper Before It Even Starts
ANAHEIM, CA - APRIL 30: People pose for selfies at Disneyland Park as it reopens for the first time since the COVID 19 pandemic forced the park to shut down last year on April 30, 2021 in Anaheim, California. California saw some of the highest infection rates in the nation over the winter but now enjoys some of the lowest.
Peloton discovers high cost of downscaling
For luxury fitness brand Peloton, going mainstream is costing it dearly. Shares of Peloton Interactive plunged 25% in after-hours trading on Thursday after it issued a grim earnings report and outlook. The company, which has its financial year-end in June, said full-year revenue may come in as much as $1bn below its previous projection. Minutes later, investors had erased nearly $6bn from its market value.
Peloton Discovers It's Expensive to Go Downscale
Peloton stationary bikes for sale at the company's showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Peloton Interactive Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 4. (Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg) For luxury fitness brand Peloton, going mainstream is costing it dearly. Shares of Peloton Interactive Inc. plunged 25% in after-hours trading Thursday after it issued a grim earnings report and outlook.
Don't Write Off Roku. It Can Be the Next Netflix.
What if there's another Albanian army? It's hard not to notice that Roku Inc., the streaming-TV platform and device maker, bears a resemblance to Netflix Inc. in its earlier days, a time when some investors and rival companies were dismissive of Netflix's potential. In 2010, Jeff Bewkes, then-chief executive of Time Warner, famously made a dig at Netflix that would become Hollywood folklore: "It's a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world?
Shoppers Haven't Minded Higher Prices. That Might Change Soon.
Dear shopper, how are you doing? Wall Street is dying to know. Investors and market strategists are poring over a spate of economic data and commentary from corporate earnings calls, trying to determine how people feel about spending money in these strange times. Some investors are worried and some are jubilant, and there are data to support both perspectives.
Sweetgreen's IPO Recipe: A Lot of Salad, Some Tech
At Sweetgreen Inc., salad is tech. The trendy eatery, well known to New York's lunch crowd, filed this week for an initial public offering as it seeks to test how many more cities will embrace the vaunted $13 salad. At the root of Sweetgreen's expansion plan is an emphasis on digital orders and digital-enabled delivery and pickup convenience, essentials for any to-go lunch spot in the post-pandemic era. In that way, its IPO prospectus filing reads part health-food brand, part technology startup.
Commentary: ‘Squid Game’ isn’t for Disney, and that’s a problem
Disney+ could never play “Squid Game.” By now, many viewers have probably heard of Netflix Inc.’s creepy series out of South Korea, which has become a streaming sensation in recent weeks. A “dystopian survival story kind of like ‘Hunger Games,’” is how Netflix’s co-chief executive officer, Ted Sarandos, described “Squid Game,” but even that’s sanitizing the plot. “Ultra-disturbing” better encapsulates it, and yet the series is a must-watch.
AT&T's HBO Divorce Isn't Its Last Hurdle
AT&T Inc.'s turnaround - an exacting mission that has involved selling nearly everything acquired under its former chief executive officer - is finally showing signs of working. But this long-awaited progress on the business front comes as the Dallas-based wireless giant's public image takes a bruising.
AT&T’s HBO Divorce Isn’t Its Last Hurdle
9:05 PM IST, 21 Oct 20215:22 AM IST, 21 Oct 20219:05 PM IST, 21 Oct 20215:22 AM IST, 21 Oct 2021 (Bloomberg Opinion) -- AT&T Inc.’s turnaround — an exacting mission that has involved selling nearly everything acquired under its former chief executive officer — is finally showing signs of working. But this long-awaited progress on the business front comes as the Dallas-based wireless giant’s public image takes a bruising.
PayPal's Pinterest Idea May Be a Bit Too Pricey
The Pinterest website on a laptop computer arranged in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Pinterest Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 4. (Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg) PayPal Holdings Inc. is said to be exploring a $45 billion takeover of Pinterest Inc., and investors are as puzzled by the pairing as they are by the astronomical valuation.
Analysis | Netflix Is Winning Streaming’s Own ‘Squid Game’
Television fans have been willing to give just about every new streaming-TV service a shot. But “Squid Game” shows how Netflix Inc. has uniquely mastered the art of keeping its subscribers. Netflix surpassed expectations Tuesday when it reported 4.38 million net new members for the third quarter, with a big boost coming from the Asia-Pacific region as the U.S. and Canada returned to growth.
Netflix Is Winning Streaming’s Own ‘Squid Game’
3:54 AM IST, 19 Oct 20211:28 AM IST, 20 Oct 20213:54 AM IST, 19 Oct 20211:28 AM IST, 20 Oct 2021 (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Television fans have been willing to give just about every new streaming-TV service a shot. But “Squid Game” shows how Netflix Inc. has uniquely mastered the art of keeping its subscribers. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Television fans have been willing to give just about every new streaming-TV service a shot. But “Squid Game” shows how Netflix Inc.
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