Target plans to keep its stores closed on Thanksgiving Day permanently moving forward, according to a note from CEO Brian Cornell to employees obtained by the Associated Press. Last year, the national retailer was forced to close on one of... Read More
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Front Office Sports reported that Amazon is the favorite to acquire a minority stake in NFL Media, though a deal has not yet been reached. In 2022, Amazon will take exclusive ownership of Thursday Night Football and is in the running to acquire the... Read More
Verizon is partnering with Amazon to use the tech giant’s coming satellite internet system to expand rural broadband access in the United States. Amazon is working on Project Kuiper, a network of 3,236 satellites that it plans to use to... Read More
It’s no secret that Netflix is diversifying. In June, the company began expanding its podcasting footprint. Two weeks ago, the company picked up its first game studio as part of its new gaming initiative. Now the company is teaming up with a big... Read More
A long-awaited vote on Boeing’s broadband satellite constellation is expected to take place in the next few days. On Thursday, Jessica Rosenworcel, the Acting Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, advanced the proposal to a vote.... Read More
Amazon-owned streaming giant Twitch had a double-whammy of bad news at its doorstep today. The company’s source code was leaked online, along with details on creator payouts, code from an unreleased Steam competitor, and other internal docs.... Read More
Thursday Night Football on Prime Video starts this Thursday, October 7 at 8:20 pm ET when the Los Angeles Rams travel to take on the Seattle Seahawks. 2021 is the final year of the NFL’s existing TNF tri-cast model. Beginning in 2022, Prime... Read More
Amazon announced its latest slate of new products this morning, and guess what? THERE’S A ROBOT. Amazon closed up its fall product release today with some fancy gadgets to kick off the 2021 holiday season. Among the gadgets... Read More
Amazon has emerged as the likely front-runner to obtain the rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package according to sources familiar with the matter, CNBC said on Friday afternoon. Amazon has already obtained the exclusive rights to stream... Read More
E-commerce giant Amazon just announced a new employee benefit: free college tuition for over 750,000 U.S. employees. It’s no secret that companies are struggling to attract minimum-wage workers atm. Amazon is the latest mega corporation to... Read More
It’s all about the money, money, money. Amazon just announced that it would partner with Affirm to add buy now, pay later (BNPL) as a payment option at checkout. Starting on Friday, Amazon will roll out the feature to “certain Amazon... Read More
Amazon and “union” are two words you don’t often see together in a sentence (aside from the company’s recent union-related problems). However, the e-commerce behemoth has prompted the formation of an unexpected union… and it involves the way... Read More
Yesterday, we talked about the death of cable and the general pivot to streaming/connected TV. According to Statista, on-demand streaming revenue is projected to reach $71.2B. A large portion of that will come from subscriptions to services like... Read More
Amazon denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year. The report bit.ly/3xb6orM from London’s City A.M. newspaper, citing an unnamed “insider”, sent the... Read More
Bitcoin roared today, all thanks to Amazon. Days after the company posted a job relating to crypto, rumors are circulating that the tech giant might accept Bitcoin as a payment. Supposedly, Amazon is even considering developing their own... Read More