The New York Times’ digital sales overtake print for first time August 5, 2020 The New York Times beat Wall Street expectations in its second-quarter results today, as its digital efforts overtook its print business for the first time. The firm’s digital products, which includes online news, podcasts, recipes and crosswords, gained 669,000 subscribers in the quarter. More than half of the New York Times’ revenue comes from subscriptions, as [...]
Gaming Sector Plays On August 5, 2020 In the first of the series, Positive Challenges hears from senior figures working in and supporting the UK’s games sector. The gaming industry still flourishes under the pandemic, becoming one of the most resilient industries. On the panel we have: The gaming industry has been a key part of the 21st-century economy during the pandemic, [...]
Nottingham – where the living and working is easy August 5, 2020 “Nottingham is an easy city, easy to do business, easy to find talent and we’ve been able to grow our business here easily” said Halli Bjornsson, Co-Founder and CEO at Lockwood Publishing, creators of the hit 3D virtual world Avakin Life which has 500,000 Daily Active Users. Many more who live, work and run gaming [...]
Amazon to pass on UK digital tax to sellers in fees hike August 5, 2020 Amazon is to increase seller fees next month, saying it will no longer absorb the UK’s digital services tax after talks with the government failed to progress. The e-commerce giant said it had taken on the impact of the digital services tax — a two per cent levy on the firm’s annual revenues — since [...]
Coronavirus: Screen time soars as adults spend half their day on devices August 5, 2020 A surge in screen time during lockdown saw adults in the UK glued to their devices for more than 40 per cent of the waking day, according to new research. In its annual study of the nation’s media habits, industry watchdog Ofcom found that adults in the UK spent an average of six hours and [...]
Beirut death toll hits 100 after warehouse explosion August 5, 2020 A Beirut warehouse explosion that shook Lebanon’s capital yesterday left more than 4,000 people injured and at least 100 dead as rescue workers dig through the rubble looking for survivors. Tuesday’s blast at port warehouses storing highly explosive material was the most powerful in years in Beirut, already reeling from an economic crisis and a [...]
Whatsapp launches fact check feature in bid to curb fake news August 4, 2020 Whatsapp has introduced a fact checking feature allowing users to cross-examine the content of viral messages, as the Facebook-owned messaging app attempts to weed out misinformation across the platform. The new feature, which is being rolled out in six countries including the UK from today, will allow users to perform a Google search on forwarded [...]
‘A Day in the Life’ of Jimmy Nguyen- Founding President, Bitcoin Association July 31, 2020 Jimmy Nguyen is the Founding President of Bitcoin Association, the Switzerland-based global industry organization that supports Bitcoin SV. One of the main competing chains of Bitcoin, Bitcoin SV uses the original Bitcoin protocol and is massively scaling to be the global enterprise blockchain. Following a distinguished legal career, Jimmy shifted tracks professionally in 2017 to focus [...]
Big Tech cashes in on worst day for US economy since Great Depression July 31, 2020 The world’s four largest tech firms yesterday announced blockbuster earnings for three months to June, despite the US economy facing its darkest day since the Great Depression. Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple, worth more than $5 trillion ($3.81 trillion) in total, smashed expectations as they all posted record profits yesterday. The upbeat results were met [...]
Arch Co to launch #loveyourlocalarches campaign encouraging local shopping July 31, 2020 One of the country’s biggest small business landlords is to launch a campaign across August encouraging Brits to support their local firms and communities. The Arch Company has over 2,000 small business tenants in London and nearly 4,000 across the UK, most of which are sited in formerly disused railway arches. Alongside Transport for London [...]