May 24, 2024 Spotify just killed Car Thing with no refunds. Angry customers ask why it can’t be open-sourced The streaming giant hinted that its foray into hardware was an experiment in data collection. Some who paid $90 for the device want an option to keep using it. BY Anna-Louise Jackson What was that thing for … Continue reading Spotify just killed Car Thing with no refunds. Angry customers ask why it can’t be open sourced
By Mark Wilson February 15, 2023 With very little fanfare, Netflix has sunset a UX feature that was half a decade in development. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company’s Surprise Me feature, which played a randomized movie or show with the click of a button, has been discontinued due to low use. … Continue reading Netflix killed its Surprise Me button. Here’s why the shuffle-play feature never made much sense
By Ainsley Harris December 17, 2022 It hasn’t been a great year for neobanks. Chime has delayed its IPO and struggled to diversify its revenue after overtures to acquire early-wage-access startup DailyPay for $2 billion fell flat. MoneyLion has been the target of regulatory complaints from agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) … Continue reading Goldman Sachs just killed its neobank. When will Silicon Valley follow suit?
By Talib Visram November 11, 2022 Effective altruism, we hardly knew ye. Following the collapse of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried’s crytocurrency exchange that was once valued at $32 billion and is now effectively worthless, the founders of the company’s philanthropic arm resigned Thursday. Reporter Teddy Schleifer tweeted the resignation letter cosigned by the FTX Future … Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried and Elon Musk just killed effective altruism
Remington Begg — April 26, 2019 Follow @remingtonbegg — April 26, 2019 Sure we all dream of a day where we reach #inboxzero. We say we’re tired of email. We move to communication channels and tools like Slack, Flock, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and others. And we see the calls that “email is dead.” But the … Continue reading Has Conversational Marketing Killed Email?
How ‘Free’ Killed Video, And What We Can Do To Save It by Steven Rosenbaum , Featured Contributor, November 20, 2017 On Feb. 14, 2005, three partners gathered at a pizza parlor in San Mateo, Calif. Like most startups, they’d found a problem they wanted to solve. They were making videos with their friends of … Continue reading How ‘Free’ Killed Video, And What We Can Do To Save It
by Paul Trujillo Follow @TruPaultxSeptember 20, 2016 The mundane, laborious tasks of poring over inventory, tracking goods, recording sales, restocking shelves in a timely manner, and predicting future demands have never been popular activities for those running businesses—especially as their day-to-day challenges grow. As a result, we see over and over again, supply chains destroyed … Continue reading 6 Times Horrific Inventory Control Almost Killed These Companies
by Jenny Prikockis December 13, 2015December 13, 2015 Most people’s email inboxes are packed with notices about upcoming promotions and weekly newsletters, among all of the other social and corporate communications that take priority. And with average open rates as low as 10% in some industries, the subject line is incrementally responsible for permeating the … Continue reading 5 Email Subject Lines That Killed the Sale
Gavin O’Malley @mp_gavin, June 12, 2015 While top brands have been slow to evolve, they insist that the days of last-touch attribution are numbered. The Home Depot is a case in point. Though it’s still stuck in last-touch limbo, that’s finally changing, according to Sean Kainec, Senior Manager of Search Engine Optimization at the home … Continue reading Can Last-Click Attribution Be Killed?
