âFacebook fact-checkers vs. 4.75B posts per dayâ â DoorDashâs not First-Mover Advantage. SoundCloudâs desperate $75M. Facebookâs hires Reuters.
Facebook has added a new addition to its army of information regulators for the election year, but weâre looking at their odds (spoiler: not great odds). SoundCloud snags a fresh $75M in funding from ...
13 Feb 202018min
âStarbucks wants to pick you up at the airportâ â Sprint/T-Mobile gets approved. Samsungâs flip phone. Starbucksâ airport deal.
Sprint surged nearly 80% on word its T-Mobile merger is good to go (because Sprint was basically a dead wireless man walking). Samsung whipped up a foldable new phone that you should definitely care a...
12 Feb 202018min
âBurger King is jealous of Popeyeâs fried chicken-paloozaâ â Brandless shuts down. Coronavirusâ lenders. Popeyeâs power earnings.
Restaurant Brands International happens to own both Burger King and Popeyeâs, but it was Popeyeâs chicken-powered quarter thatâs getting all the attention. Softbank-backed nearly-unicorn Brandless is ...
11 Feb 202019min
âWarner Music is Venture Capital for musiciansâ â Uberâs profit shocker. Ericsson/Nokia 5G awkwardness. Warner Musicâs IPO.
Warner Music filed to IPO because streaming saved the music industry. Uber shares surged 10% before the weekend on word itâs actually planning to become profitable by the end of this year (*depends ho...
10 Feb 202019min
âDunkinâ stealthily went fancyâ â WWEâs XFL problem. Twitterâs record surge. Dunkinâs premium coffee strategy.
Dunkinâ announced earnings, but weâre focused on the subtle hints that itâs transforming into a fancy coffee chain. World Wrestling Entertainment stock dropped 9% and weâre blaming the XFL situation. ...
7 Feb 202018min
âBy that math, Instagram is worth $150Bâ â Chipotleâs Taco Bell-ification. Instagram owns Facebook. Spotifyâs acquires the Ringer
Turns out Spotify just made (another) acquisition in the podcast space because itâs trying to build a âgated garden.â Instagramâs numbers leaked and we finally learned how it stacks up to YouTube. And...
6 Feb 202017min
âWhy Tesla is like a young avocado treeâ â Visaâs swipe tax. BPâs empire. Teslaâs Elon-sanity.
Snackers want to know why Tesla stock has surged a freakish 60% in the last week, and the answer lies in avocado trees and orange groves. Visa is already Earthâs biggest payment processor, but now itâ...
5 Feb 202020min
âYouTube sells more ads than ABC/NBC/FOX⌠combinedâ â Harryâs razors acquisition gets sued. Coronavirus-benefiting companies. Alphabetâs YouTube surprise.
Alphabetâs stock fell 5% after its earnings report, but the real highlight was YouTube â the company disclosed financial info for the first time. Harryâs razors was supposed to be acquired by Schickâs...
4 Feb 202018min
