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Apple Card Change-Up and Rentable Holiday Sweaters
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership (paywall-free link) Quotes: Apple is pulling the plug on its…
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Colin Wright
Streaming Music and Dietitian Influencers
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music (paywall-free link) Quotes: In 2022, on-demand music streams in the U.S…
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Colin Wright
Doritos Software, the Cost of Fun, and Single's Day
What happens when ads generate themselves? (You end up with images that show a product in context, but in a less-useful way because of sizing issues…
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Colin Wright
Big Oil in Fortnite and Peanuts in Japan
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: Big Oil's Using Fortnite, TikTok, And Twitch In Effort To Convince Kids Fossil Fuels Are Cool Quotes: As reported…
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Colin Wright
Useless Medications, Credit Card Debt, and Zero Consumers
Useless congestion medications are being pulled from shelves following an FDA finding that they don’t work (at least not when taken orally), and some…
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Colin Wright
YouTube, Amazon Healthcare, and Snack Food Stores
YouTube is getting serious about ad-blockers (and triggering a record number of ad-blocker uninstalls). American homes are getting bigger:You Probably…
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Colin Wright
Food Deserts, Olive Oil, and Refund Fraud
Local governments thinking of taking control of grocery stores to address food deserts. Also: America’s downtowns are empty, and fixing them up for how…
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