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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Streaming platforms are cracking down on users sharing their accounts with others to improve subscriber numbers. But this is unlikely to lead to long-term growth.
Netflix was the first major streaming platform to crack down on users sharing their accounts. Other platforms like Disney+, Hulu and HBO Max were quick to follow. Disney’s financial results announced earlier this month and Netflix’s results earlier this year indicate that this crackdown is working for the platforms.
Netflix started its crackdown in May 2023 when it began to stop allowing its users to share their accounts with people who lived in a different household. This move seemed to have borne results for the streaming platform after it revealed a surge in subscribers in the financial quarter that immediately …
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
Highlights from Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Qatar’s new (and bolder) AI ambition and the bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.
Indians who are among the world’s largest consumers of free tech products and also significant beneficiaries of free markets suffer from a poor understanding of both technology and accountability. Separately, Aamir Khan breaks a paradigm with a YouTube release.
