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Sprint, T-Mobile Take Another Swing at Combination
For a third time in four years, Sprint and T-Mobile are cooking up a plan to combine forces. The two wireless providers are attempting to create one wireless company that will be able to compete on the same playing field as Verizon and AT&T, but so far have been unsuccessful. [...]Read more
Brands Showing Losses Depending on Inflation Alone
Changing consumer trends are throwing old guard consumer-products manufacturers for a loop as inflation refuses to rise high enough for another price increase. Procter & Gamble, for example, just announced that prices fell two percent overall with the biggest backslide coming [...]Read more
Smart Home, Smart Move? The Pros and Cons of Voice Assistants
Today, almost half of Americans use a voice assistant on one or more connected devices, including smartphones and stand-alone speakers. It’s not uncommon to hear someone hail their friendly neighborhood helper with a cheery “Hey, Alexa!” or “Hello, Siri!” But even as [...]Read more
Supreme Court Weighing Future of Internet Sales Tax
Even as buying from eCommerce merchants becomes a common practice, there’s still controversy over just how these companies should collect sales tax. In fact, this issue has been through the lower courts and is now being heard by the Supreme Court. Everything hangs on a 1992 [...]Read more
Cable Facing Significant Challenge from Non-Traditional TV
People are cutting the cord faster than ever, if new figures from cable TV providers Charter, Comcast and AT&T are any indication. Charter lost 122,000 video customers in the first quarter, over three times more than Wall Street’s projected 40,000. The massive surprise sent [...]Read more
Is Alexa Spying on Her Users? Some Allege She’s a Sell-Out
Since the introduction of digital voice assistants like Alexa and Google Home, people have been curious, and nervous, about how much they actually hear and what it is they plan to do with that information. With increased attention currently being paid to user privacy since the [...]Read more
Twitter Bans Bitcoin Advertising and Cryptocurrency Scams
April is all about ringing in rebirth, watching wildflowers bloom and, apparently, giving cryptocurrency the boot. In early April, Twitter, Facebook and Google banned some types of cryptocurrency-related ads in an effort to minimize fake news and fraud-riddled products. In [...]Read more
Chrome’s Ad Blocker Brings Some Quiet to the Internet, at a Price
Google’s controversial ad blocking option has begun rolling out in its Chrome browser. It still continues to raise eyebrows as the search giant insists that its goals are primarily in the interest of the Internet user. But, as goes the Internet user, goes Google. If the online [...]Read more
Twitter Shows Profits in a Rare In-The-Black Quarter
Twitter has spent more time in the last few years projecting success than actually achieving it, so when it announced a net profit of $91.1 million for Q4’17, investors sat up and started paying attention. This was a drastic turn-around from the $167.1 million loss the year [...]Read more
Superfans are Changing the Face of Music Marketing
It wasn’t that long ago that musicians followed a fairly standard rise to stardom. They played gigs in dark, dank little hole-in-the-wall bars, moved up to bigger and better, albeit local, engagements, then someone discovered them. That discovery by a music label would give the [...]Read more
