The surprises at Netflix keep mounting. Last month, the streamer dropped a bombshell (a few of them, actually) when the company said it’s working to introduce ads to the service. Also, a crackdown is in the works that will target people who share their Netflix account passwords with freeloaders. The dual efforts come at a …
A retail chain beloved by bargain hunters has unveiled a big expansion it’s going to be embarking on over the course of the next several months. As many as 28 new Costco store locations are opening through the rest of this year, including almost a dozen in a matter of months. It’s the kind of …
For years, the number of Netflix subscribers has gone in just one direction. Plotted on a graph, it would be a line that stretches mostly up and to the right, as the streaming juggernaut — partly on the strength of exclusive content like Ozark, The Crown, and Stranger Things — acquired a global user base …
Some of you seriously need to put down Twitter and go pet a dog or something. The reaction way too many of you had to the Elon Musk Twitter takeover announced on Monday — which will mean the company soon losing the oversight of public markets — is to correspondingly lose your minds. For my …
Twitter is reportedly planning to accept Elon Musk’s offer of $43 billion to buy the company as early as Monday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the two sides “worked through the night” in order to finalize the details. Musk initially made his bid on April 14th, calling it his “best and final offer” at …
Netflix is in the rare position of floundering a bit at the moment, financially speaking. And some of you freeloaders, who mooch the password to other peoples’ Netflix accounts, are partly to blame. The issue here is that Netflix might have finally hit a ceiling on the rocketship of a growth trajectory it’s been on …
Costco has an incredibly loyal fan base thanks to the membership-only retail chain’s abundance of sales and discounted items — in other words, because of the tremendous value to be found herein. There are blogs and websites, for example, dedicated solely to the chain and the comings and goings within its product assortment. Social media …
Back in the fall of 2019, in a conversation with me, Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph swatted away the likelihood that the streaming giant would ever allow ads on the platform. That’s in spite of analyst speculation at the time showing that the company could grab a windfall of as much as $1 billion if it …
If mine was among the estimated 30 million households in Netflix’s UCAN market (covering the US and Canada) in which someone is borrowing the password to someone else’s Netflix account in order to stream content like Bridgerton Season 2 or The Adam Project, I might be feeling a little nervous right about now. As expected, …
Taco Bell has finally confirmed the rumors about the fan-favorite Mexican Pizza, a menu item whose return has been the subject of rumors and speculation for months now. After pulling it from the chain’s menu almost two years ago, the Mexican Pizza is coming back on May 19. Reversing what had been a decision that …
