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Your business doesn’t have to be a household name to be successful in the world of NFTs. Here’s what you can learn about expanding into the metaverse from these three major brands’ NFT innovations.
Accenture Interactive has evolved its name to become Accenture Song, says David Droga, the firm’s chairman and CEO.
Changing Square’s name to Block Inc. was apparently just the first move for Jack Dorsey.
Outside New York City’s Ambassador Theatre, the name on everybody’s lips isn’t Roxie. It’s Pamela Anderson, the former “Baywatch” star who is making her Broadway debut in “Chicago” as Roxie Hart. “I never see Broadway shows,” said one particularly well-dressed theatergoer, who nonetheless stood in a long line to scan his ticket on a rainy […]
Shalana Hunter, who goes by the name Tokyo Toni, was banned from court by Judge Gregory W. Alarcon after she posted on Monday threats against the Kardashians. She then threatened him.
When it rains, it pours for the most poisonous name in news as CNN’s streaming platform CNN+, as Axios media reporter Sara Fischer said Tuesday, “looks doomed” as parent company “Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended” its entire “external marketing spend” amid “frustrat[ion] that the service launched” to begin with.
Worse yet for CNN (though having a potato salad Kickstarter make more than daily CNN+ users is atrocious), the new bosses have “laid off CNN’s longtime chief financial officer” (with more on the way) and plan to remake the 9:00 p.m. Eastern hour into “a live newscast, instead of personality-driven perspective programming.”
Fischer included this hilarious tidbit in the second paragraph of her 778-word item: “Inside CNN, executives think the launch has been successful. Discovery executives disagree.”
Talk about an all-but impenetrable bubble.
With CNN+ having only 150,000 subscribers and less than 10,000 daily users, Fischer explained how the future isn’t bright for them as “Warner Bros. Discovery wants to eventually build one giant service around HBO Max” instead of having multiple streaming services pitted against each other under its own company for people’s budgets.
>> To see examples of things more popular than CNN+, check out our breakdown here.
The Italian band Måneskin made its name in the U.S. with a crafty cover, of the Four Seasons’ “Beggin,’” and there were more where that came from during the band’s set Sunday night at Coachella: The group went to both ends of the pop/punk scale and memorably covered Britney Spears’ “Womanizer,” followed by Iggy Pop […]
A California man, who’s name was not immediately released, was crushed to death on Friday night after he got out of his car while it was inside an automatic car wash in Escondido, police said.
Adaptation has always been the name of the game, and one way service-led firms can evolve is by adopting intelligent automation.
Nevermind the name. This summer-ready cocktail is both delicious and accessible enough share with grandma.
