What's Interesting In Business News: kids apps, music metadata, $BBBY, Seeking Alpha, SEC, UX design, $AMZN, NYC taxis, Fortune, Mifid2, Pirate Bay, Podcasts in China, Excel, Rural areas, Wework
June 3, 2019 | Volume 11
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The kids apps market is about $80 billion but what is it? Thought provoking discussion from a former kids app founder.
The Kids App Market – A Strategic Overview
Metadata is a big problem for musicians getting paid properly.
Distributor platforms are not incentivized to help fix the industry. It’s just more cost and lower revenues for them.
Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
Bed Bath & Beyond has been challenged to update its business model to the modern age. A group of activist investors is putting a new board and CEO in charge to modernize the company before it’s too late.
Digital transformations are not easy and they impact almost every aspect of legacy operations.
Amazon Didn’t Cripple Bed Bath & Beyond. Its Own Leaders Did.
A Seeking Alpha blog and newsletter just hit $1MM in annual revenues.
Seeking Alpha's First Millionaire
Cuban explains why the SEC should actually put some real guidelines in place for insider trading.
Mark Cuban: The SEC is ‘useless’
Why platform strategies fail:
1/ mispricing one side of the market
2/ failure to develop user trust
3/ dismissing competition
4/ entering too late
A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail
Nice summary of UX design patterns that every software product manager considers at some point in the build process.
How Tech Giants Get You to Click This (and Not That)
A brilliant move by Amazon to sneak into user homes, track everything they do, and leverage that data to sell them more products. All without the end user even realizing.
Amazon’s Plan to Move In to Your Next Apartment Before You Do
NYC taxis since 2011: 16% disappeared and the survivors real revenues are down 44%.
Massive impact from Uber and Lyft.
Komanoff: Times Exposé Understated the Damage to Yellow Cab Industry by Uber and Lyft
Fortune magazine joins the crowd of modern business media properties with a paywall.
With all the business news competitors, Fortune will need to really step up their game to get people to pay a premium price.
Fortune to Add Paywall in Bid to Diversify Revenue Stream
UK fixed income investors have not seen spreads shrink due to MIFID 2 and now have less access to research - which is more important than ever due to increased market complexity.
Mifid II makes the capital markets more uncertain
Pirate Bay still running after 15 years of repeated attempts by authorities to shut it down.
After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
The “podcast” industry in China is different from the US. The China market is driven by a small group of powerful platforms like YouTube and most of the content is amateur.
Excel for iPhone can now use OCR to covert an image of a table into a real table in a spreadsheet. Awesome.
But Excel for Mac can’t convert a simple Html table on a website into a real table. Why?
Excel for iPhone now lets you take a picture of a spreadsheet and import it
Rural areas are doing just fine. Amazing how the census bureau doesn’t use fundamental statistical techniques in their analysis.
Is “Rural Decline” Just a Statistical Artifact?
A reasonable overview of Wework where, unlike most recent press, the author argues in support of Wework.
The controversy over WeWork’s $47 billion valuation and impending IPO, explained