Writer Charlotte Alter’s tweet noted how she and Ocasio-Cortez were born in the same year and claimed that millennials are embracing democratic socialism because they’ve “never experienced American prosperity.” Read more…
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Rogers began to scale back its print magazine business in 2016, while focusing on sports content, including its ownership of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team. Read more…
Amazon said the number of Alexa “skills,” the voice-powered apps created for Amazon’s virtual assistant, topped 80,000 worldwide in early 2019.
The number of Alexa skills in the United States more than doubled to 56,750 in January 2019 from 25,784 a year earlier, according to Voicebot.ai. Alexa skill growth in the U.K. rose 233% to 29,910, while Germany’s skill count rose 152% to 7,869.
Number of Alexa Skills by Country, January 2019
| US | 56750 |
| UK | 29910 |
| Canada | 22873 |
| Australia | 22398 |
| Germany | 7869 |
| Japan | 2364 |
| France | 981 |
Google Assistant has “actions” as the apps that expand its capabilities beyond search.
Number of Google Assistant Actions in United States
| January 2019 | 4253 |
| January 2018 | 1719 |
| October 2017 | 724 |
| August | 468 |
| July | 378 |
| June | 304 |
| May | 232 |
| April | 165 |
Google Assistant Apps by Category – January 2019
| Category | % |
| Education and reference | 15.07 |
| Games and fun | 11.07 |
| Kids and family | 9.29 |
| News and magazines | 7.69 |
| Home Control | 6.91 |
| Travel and transportation | 5.60 |
| Shopping | 5.58 |
| Business and finance | 5.41 |
| Arts and lifestyle | 4.73 |
| Health and fitness | 4.25 |
| Social and communication | 4.03 |
| Music and audio | 3.83 |
| Food and drink | 3.50 |
| Productivity | 3.41 |
| Sports | 2.92 |
| Music, photos and TV | 2.76 |
| Local | 2.62 |
| Weather | 1.32 |
Fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger partnered with mobile app Unfold on an Instagram Stories template collection. Read more…
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Instagram is one of the most popular social media channels to reach young adults and teens. Almost three-fourths (71%) of U.S. adults ages 18-24 use Instagram, second only to YouTube (94%) in popularity among the demographic group, per Pew Research Center. Almost three-fourths (72%) of U.S. teens use Facebook-owned Instagram, and 15% said they use the image-sharing app most often, per a separate Pew survey.
The action follows criticism of the video-sharing platform for monetizing videos that exploit children. Starting on February 25, YouTube’s revised “strikes system” will give a one-time warning to users who post content that crosses the line. Read more…
Apple is asking publishers to hand over half of the subscription revenue they earn from the tech giant’s planned “Netflix for magazines.” The iPhone maker doesn’t add enough value to media distribution to merit such onerous fees, and publishers should demand a better return on their investments in original content. Read more…
Mike Bloomberg: Amazon Deal Is Great for NYC
Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, praised the deal.
“Amazon’s decision to locate to Long Island City is an affirmation not only of N.Y.C.’s growing tech talent,” Mr. Bloomberg wrote on Twitter, “but also of all the investments — in housing, schools, parks, transportation and culture” made in Long Island City.
Mike Bloomberg Statement on Long Island City Chosen as Amazon’s Second HQ Location
NOV. 13, 2018
Following the Great Recession, we set out to make New York City the technology capital of the world. Today’s decision by Amazon to bring thousands of new jobs to Queens is the latest big step toward that goal. We always believed that the Applied Science competition would help catalyze the city’s tech industry, and that the birth of Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island would help make Long Island City a magnet for start-ups and big companies alike. Amazon’s decision to locate there is an affirmation not only of the city’s growing tech talent, but also of all the investments – in housing, schools, parks, transportation, and culture – that have turned Long Island City into such a thriving neighborhood. Congratulations to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and everyone in our administration and beyond who helped make this progress possible.
Mike Bloomberg: Amazon Deal Isn’t Great for NYC….um, someone help me make up my elitist…er, populist mind?
Bloomberg vs. Bezos: Ex-NY mayor knocks subsidies for Amazon
Bloomberg on Tuesday took issue with the $3 billion in incentives the city and state are providing the e-commerce giant, while celebrating Amazon’s decision to open a new headquarters in Long Island City, Queens.
“You read in the paper Amazon opened one of their new two headquarters, or are in the process of doing it, very close to here. It’s just right across the river,” Bloomberg said during a 15-minute address on higher education inside his financial news service’s Manhattan headquarters. “But the reason they came here was not the tax breaks they got, which I didn’t think they needed.”
“Fortnite,” the hit battle royale game that is adding more sponsorship opportunities for mobile marketers, reached $500 million in revenue on Apple’s iOS devices in 326 days, a record for multiplayer action games. Read more…
Restaurant chain IHOP teamed up with food-delivery app DoorDash to deliver a pizza-sized pancake in celebration of National Pizza Day on Feb. 9. Read more…
Google’s ad sales rose 20% to $32.6 billion in Q4 2018 from a year earlier, helping to drive parent company Alphabet’s revenue by 22% to $39.3 billion. Read more…