Topic: revenue streams
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Buy In-Game Items Directly on Discord
Discord is launching in-app commerce tools, allowing users to purchase digital items like character costumes directly within the platform, which enhances convenience and creates new revenue streams for developers. The feature is launching with *Marvel Rivals* as its first partner, leveraging the ...
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Tesla Ends Direct Car Sales Model
Tesla is strategically pivoting away from its core automotive business, discontinuing flagship models to focus on autonomous vehicles, robotics, and subscription services. Despite most revenue still coming from declining car sales, the company is betting heavily on software, with plans to shift i...
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Reddit Seeks Lucrative AI Deals with Google and OpenAI
Reddit is negotiating more lucrative AI data deals with companies like Google and OpenAI, seeking greater financial compensation and strategic user growth. The platform is pushing for a dynamic pricing model where payment is tied to how significantly its content influences AI-generated responses....
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Gaming Revolution: How FAST is Evolving the Industry
The gaming industry is merging with Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV (FAST), combining accessibility and interactivity to reshape digital content consumption. Gamers are highly active FAST users, creating opportunities for interactive ads, targeted marketing, and new revenue streams through this fu...
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Spotify Partners with Labels on 'Responsible' AI Music Tools
Spotify is collaborating with music industry partners to develop responsible AI music tools through upfront agreements, ensuring alignment and cooperation from the start. The platform emphasizes giving artists and rights holders genuine choice in participating with AI, respecting their decisions ...
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OpenAI Preps ChatGPT for Ad Integration
OpenAI is building an internal advertising infrastructure for ChatGPT, as indicated by a new job listing for a Growth Paid Marketing Platform Engineer to develop ad campaign management systems. The company plans to monetize its 700 million weekly free users by introducing ads as early as 2026, cr...
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Warner Music and Udio Settle AI Copyright Lawsuit, Strike New Deal
Warner Music Group has resolved its copyright dispute with Udio and formed a strategic partnership to launch a licensed AI music platform in 2026, using authorized content to create new income streams for artists while protecting their rights. The upcoming subscription service will enable users t...
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Can Your Vibrator Be Hacked?
App-connected smart devices, including intimate items like sex toys, collect sensitive usage data and location information through their companion apps, raising significant privacy concerns. Manufacturers may sell this collected customer data to third-party brokers, who can combine it with other ...
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Warner Music Group and Suno Launch AI Artist Likenesses
Warner Music Group has partnered with AI music platform Suno, allowing users to create tracks using the voices and likenesses of participating artists, marking a significant step in AI's integration into the music industry. Artists under Warner retain control over their identity and works in AI-g...
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Flipkart Super.money & Kotak811 Launch Free UPI Payments
Super.money and Kotak Mahindra Bank have partnered to launch an integrated account combining UPI payments, savings, and secured credit cards, aiming to achieve profitability by 2026 through enhanced customer engagement. The collaboration targets distributing two million secured credit cards in th...
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Strava's IPO Plans Fueled by Gen Z Fitness Boom
Strava is planning an initial public offering to raise capital for acquisitions, backed by investors like Sequoia Capital and valued at $2.2 billion. The platform has grown to 50 million monthly active users, driven by increased app downloads and a trend toward alcohol-free social activities amon...
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Apple Creator Studio Subscriptions: 7 Key Things to Know
Apple has launched a new Creator Studio subscription bundle, offering ten professional creative and productivity apps for a single monthly or annual fee, with significant discounts for students and educators. The bundle follows a hybrid subscription model, as many included apps remain available f...
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Meta's $2 Billion AI Agent: What's Next?
Meta has acquired AI startup Manus for over $2 billion to accelerate the development of advanced, general-purpose AI agents across its platforms and close the competitive gap with rivals like OpenAI. Manus gained attention for its autonomous AI agent capable of complex tasks with minimal oversigh...
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Netpoleon, Vectra AI Strengthen ANZ Cybersecurity Alliance
Netpoleon and Vectra AI have expanded their strategic alliance to deliver advanced AI-driven Network Detection and Response solutions across Australia and New Zealand, enhancing cybersecurity capabilities for enterprise clients and government agencies. Vectra AI has been recognized as a Leader in...
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Zuckerberg Bets Big on AI as the Future of Social Media
Meta's vision centers on AI becoming the primary creative engine for social media, generating personalized content and enabling new, immersive interactive formats beyond traditional media. The company is shifting its strategic emphasis from the metaverse to AI, positioning its virtual reality inv...
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PayPal Payments Coming to ChatGPT Next Year
PayPal will be integrated as a payment option in ChatGPT starting in 2026, enabling users to complete transactions directly through the AI platform using their PayPal wallet. This collaboration utilizes OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol to streamline purchasing and automatically includes product...
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Knicks' Miles McBride Launches Friendship App to Rival Snap Map
Miles "Deuce" McBride created Mmotion, a friendship app that helps users find people with shared interests and local social spots, moving beyond superficial social media interactions through location awareness and community building. The app uses geofencing and state tracking to connect nearby us...
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Apple, Microsoft Hit $4 Trillion on AI and Cloud Boom
Apple and Microsoft have each achieved a $4 trillion market capitalization, driven by innovation in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and strong product sales like the iPhone series. Microsoft's growth is fueled by its strategic partnership with OpenAI and the expanding Azure cloud platfo...
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Ford Partners with Amazon to Boost Used Car Sales
Ford has partnered with Amazon to sell its certified pre-owned vehicles directly through the Amazon Autos platform, expanding Amazon's automotive retail offerings beyond new cars. The collaboration allows customers to browse inventory, arrange financing, and complete transactions online, while in...
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Google's Smart Glasses: I Almost Forgot My Phone
Google is launching new AI-powered smart glasses next year, aiming to provide seamless, hands-free access to information and positioning them as a strategic move in a competitive market with players like Meta. Learning from the privacy and design failures of its earlier Google Glass, the new prot...
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Multiview: The Future of DTC Sports Streaming
Multiview functionality is a key differentiator for sports streaming services, aiming to reduce subscriber churn and create a more engaging, personalized experience by allowing simultaneous streams or multiple camera angles. While experts see multiview as appealing for personalization, especially...
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