Telehealth is here to stay. What about legacy healthcare providers?
FORBES • BY RITA NUMEROF Telehealth provides convenience to patients. It has the potential to improve patient outcomes by ensuring worrisome signs and symptoms are discussed with a clinician as quickly as possible. And it’s a lifeline during a pandemic for medically-vulnerable individuals who should not be going anywhere near other sick people. It also has […]
Google is finally ready to fight Roku and Amazon in the streaming wars
CO. EXIST • BY JARED NEWMAN It took about a decade, but Google may have finally gotten streaming TV right. On Wednesday, the company is launching Chromecast with Google TV, a $50 4K streaming device that’s an answer to wildly popular streaming dongles from Roku and Amazon. Unlike previous Chromecasts, which required a phone or tablet […]
11% of Americans Have Already Subscribed to Walmart+
THE MOTLEY FOOL • BY DANNY VENA Earlier this month, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) announced the launch of Walmart+, a membership program that offers a host of benefits to the company’s retail customer base. At $98 per year or $12.95 per month, the service has inevitably been compared to Amazon Prime. A new survey shows that Walmart’s […]
Subscription-Based Mobility: How Porsche is Facing Up to New Challenges
THE NEXT WEB • BY NADESCHA VORNEHM How we get around sustainably and remain mobile in an increasingly busy world is a hotly debated topic at the moment. In this context, mobility does not just describe movement from A to B. Instead, when we talk of mobility now, we refer to all aspects of providing the […]
Three Reasons Why It’s A Great Time To Be In The Gaming Business
FORBES • BY STRATEGY, MOOR INSIGHTS Let’s not kid ourselves. It is an incredible time to be in the gaming business. Let’s put aside that the pandemic arrived in February. The ensuing national lockdown created a supercharged tailwind for the gaming segment’s major players, as kids suddenly stuck at home needed to be entertained. New, beefed-up […]
Worldwide Smart Home Device Forecast Remains Resilient Despite Pandemic, Says IDC
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS • BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 28, 2020– The worldwide market for smart home devices is expected to grow 4.1% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling more than 854 million units, according to the International Data Corporation ( IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Worldwide shipments are […]
2 Big Reasons We’ll See Even More Streaming Services in 2021
THE MOTLEY FOOL • BY ADAM LEVY The COVID-19 pandemic was a double whammy for the pay-TV industry. First, marketers pulled back on their television advertising spend. Then, consumers started canceling their pay-TV subscriptions as sports were canceled and TV series productions were delayed. Around 6.6 million U.S. households will cut the cord in 2020 while […]
Fortune CONNECT with Alan Murray
Alan Murray is the president and CEO of Fortune Media Group. He started his career as a cub reporter at the age of nine and spent twenty years at The Wall Street Journal before taking over at Fortune. The venerable business magazine started off as part of the Time Inc. portfolio before moving to Meredith, […]
Subscription-Based Online Grocer Thrive is Booming During the Pandemic
FORBES • BY PAMELA N. DANZIGER When the final tally is in, there are going to be a few retail winners, but many more losers from the Covid-19 pandemic. One in the winner’s column will be Thrive Market, the online grocery company that sells healthy, good-for-you-and-the-planet food and home products through a subscription model. Thrive Market […]
Subscriptions bring big rewards in tough economy [XaaS]
This article was originally written and produced by Accenture’s Kevin Dobbs. To listen to the podcast featuring Kevin and Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo, visit: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/blogs/high-tech/subscription-model-trends I thought I was a change ninja until I met Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora. In case you’re not familiar, Zuora is an enterprise software company that helps businesses launch and […]
What’s Missing in Wired Guide’s to IoT
For anyone relatively new to the topic, Wired recently published a Guide to IoT that does an excellent job of walking through some key moments in the development of IoT, as well as offering a smart take on the state of the industry today (if it even makes sense to refer to IoT as an […]
Subscription Economy News: Week of 09/21/20
Every week, we bring you the top stories and analyses from the global Subscription Economy. A fresh publishing study argues that paid digital subscriptions are the only avenue to growth Excerpt from an article by Rick Edmonds on Poynter [Tthe latest Subscription Economy Index] has a good news/bad news mix for the publishing segment. Bottom line: […]