Emma Roth
Déjà vu.
Amidst the very divided reactions surrounding Apple’s new iPad Pro ad, users have dug up a 2008 commercial for the LG KC910 Renoir 8MP phone... and it looks pretty familiar.
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Binance faces a $4.38 million fine in Canada.
Canada’s financial intelligence agency issued the fine after finding that Binance didn’t comply with the country’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing laws. In April, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in US prison for not doing enough to prevent money laundering on the crypto exchange.
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A Vice.com reboot is coming.
Months after Vice stopped publishing to its website and fired hundreds of workers, Axios reports that it will receive “tens of millions of dollars” as part of a partnership with Savage Ventures. The deal will relaunch Vice.com, Munchies, Motherboard, and Noisey — but Axios says it doesn’t include the digital assets belonging to Vice News.
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The streaming business will look “very different” in the next couple of years.
That’s what WBD CEO David Zaslav said when talking about Max’s new bundle with Disney Plus and Hulu during an earnings call on Thursday. He said that there will “likely be a restructuring of how people view content:”
There’s a lot of irrationality in the market that’s getting shaken out in terms of the amount of money spent... Ultimately, I think the business will look very different in two to three years — and it will be much better for consumers.
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Max nears 100 million subscribers globally.
In its earnings report released on Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery revealed that Max gained 2 million subscribers over the past few months, bringing its total subscriber count to 99.6 million members.
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A unionized Apple Store in Maryland is considering a strike.
The employees, who are represented by the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, will hold a vote this Saturday on whether or not to go on strike. The union says Apple hasn’t addressed workers’ concerns despite “persistent efforts to engage in constructive and meaningful dialogue.”