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How Scribd Turns The Page On eBook Subscription Fatigue

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A pair of major tech companies appear to be ready to venture into subscription-based video gaming. Online retail giant Amazon is reportedly developing a cloud-based video game streaming service, which will allow users to access video games from their smartphones instead of through a gaming console or computer.

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Walmart Teams With Eko To Develop Content

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To drive customer engagement and bring in shoppers, Walmart has teamed up with video content developer Eko for a joint venture dubbed W*E Interactive Ventures. said the eBook platform will complement its physical book assortment and offer customers an entirely new category that hasn’t been available at Walmart before. With a $9.99

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Amazon May Account For Close To 50 Percent Of Online Sales This Year

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In addition, those with an Amazon Prime membership are happy with their subscriber perks, which include free two-day shipping, discounts on overnight delivery, access to Amazon’s streaming video library, free eBooks and more.

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India’s Festive Season Starts Strong For Flipkart, Amazon

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It already has music, as well as video streaming and grocery delivery, in many of the country’s cities. In an effort to compete, Flipkart introduced a Hindi version of its app that will include free videos — as well as other tech perks, like premium content — in August.

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Amazon To Enter Food Delivery Business In India

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And, while the rising middle class of India has brought growth of the online food delivery sector, profitability is said to remain “elusive” per the report. It already has music as well as video streaming in addition to groceries delivery in many of the country’s cities.

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Be advised: helping financial services adapt to hybrid work

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At Vyopta we’ve looked closely at the state of hybrid work, and our new ebook gives guidance for how to use data and analytics around your unified communications and collaboration assets to make the best decisions going forward. Even still, online meetings with inside teams and outside VIPs are a permanent reality of business going forward.

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Demand For Books Surprisingly Outstrips Supply During Pandemic

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billion people — more than a quarter of the world’s population — will play a video game this year. Many long assumed that a great digital transformation of reading widely forecast about a decade ago would lead to an increase in eBooks. Similarly, Netflix said in its last earnings report that it added a record 15.8

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