Now that Sony has successfully rolled Funimation into Crunchyroll in an attempt to create the one anime streaming service to rule them all, it’s leveraging that consolidation to raise prices, right? Wrong, apparently! The company just announced price cuts in 95 different territories around the world, including the UK, China, India, and many, many more….
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is testing a new way to tackle password sharing in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic (as reported first by Bloomberg). The test will prompt users to pay an additional fee if they use an account outside their household for over two weeks, costing…
Enlarge / If GameStop’s NFT business is gonna go “to the moon,” total trade volume on the platform has been bending in the wrong direction so far… Last week, when Ars analyzed the first day of NFT sales on GameStop’s heavily hyped crypto marketplace, some boosters were quick to suggest that this was just a…
Sometimes the new school can learn from the old school. Ajeet Mestry / Unsplash This story has been updated. It was originally published on May 28, 2019. Services such as Spotify and Netflix want to keep you listening and watching for as long as possible, so they work hard to serve up new stuff at…
Some of digital health’s best-capitalized startups are struggling. A string of healthcare unicorns have announced layoffs over the past few weeks, including Ro, Cerebral, Forward and Calibrate. While these companies are all targeting different corners of the healthcare world — from direct-to-consumer healthcare to virtual mental health support — the layoffs show a similar response…
HireArt, which TechCrunch previously described as a “resume-killing” jobs marketplace, today announced that it raised $26.25 million in a Series B financing round led by Three Fish Capital with participation from over a “half dozen” angel investors. CEO Nick Sedlet said that the cash will be put toward product development and more than doubling HireArt’s…
Uber has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that the ride-hail company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by overcharging riders with disabilities. The company will offer several million dollars in compensation to more than 65,000 Uber users who were “charged discriminatory fees due to disability,” according to a statement from the United States…
Worldwide, more than a billion people suffer from vision impairment and entirely avoidable blindness. Cataracts — and the surgery to correct them — is one of the most common surgical procedures in the world, with more than 28 million performed worldwide, every year. The problem is, even though the surgery is relatively simple, there aren’t…
The issue of cloud sovereignty is increasingly becoming a sticking point for EU regulators, and it is something that businesses are starting to recognize, research from Capgemini has said. In a survey, it found over two-thirds (69%) of businesses cited potential exposure to extra-territorial laws in a cloud environment as a potential issue. Another 68% cited…
The customer experience (CX) landscape has changed dramatically over the last year. And consumers have been moving toward demanding more frictionless payment methods across online and offline channels. Do you work in the Ecommerce and Retail industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends, and your competitors with data-driven research. The following…