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☆ DirecTV is on the warpath against Disney in a battle it says is existential for cable TV
  + stars: | 2024-08-27 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
They really just want to disintermediate all of pay TV and drive everyone to themselves. Fresh off a vicarious victory over Disney, Thun is still looking for revenge. For DirecTV, it's skinny bundles or bustDirecTV believes these strict bundling requirements are to blame for putting pay TV on life support. Disney is "completely responsible" for the fall of pay TV, Pachter said, "because they think the only direction that retransmission fees should go is up." Without skinny bundles, pay TV is 'going to die'If skinnier bundles can't solve pay TV's woes, it's unclear what could.
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☆ All the ways Apple is a monopoly, according to its critics
  + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Here are some of the ways the DOJ says Apple is a monopoly. AdvertisementHere are a few ways the DOJ argues that Apple maintains a tight hold over the iPhone ecosystem — and keeps competitors out. The suit argues that Apple sets conditions for the apps it allows on the App Store and imposes anti-competitive rules and regulations. The suit argues that Apple makes third-party messaging apps on the iPhone "worse" than Apple messages. Digital WalletsIt's becoming more common for iPhone users to pay for items with Apple Pay, the company's digital wallet system.
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☆ Exclusive: Ex-Truepill CEO just scored $6 million to help health plans and pharma companies ditch middlemen and work closely with patients
  + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
He's launched a new company, Foundation Health, to help them do that quickly and at a low cost. Foundation aims to make it easy for insurers to set up their own online pharmacies and pharma companies to sell drugs directly to consumers. "The main focus area for us is to help health plans disintermediate PBMs," Afridi said. Foundation Health wants to help customers ditch big PBMsFoundation's software enables a few different things. Finally, direct-to-consumer health companies can plug into Foundation's technology to power their services, instead of building their own pharmacies and hiring doctors.
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☆ Compass CFO Kristen Ankerbrandt explains how the fast-growing brokerage company can reap profits
  + stars: | 2021-12-07 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The CFO of Compass believes profits will catch up to the real-estate brokerage's rapid growth. The conversation took a turn when Compass' CEO and cofounder, Robert Reffkin, suggested instead that Ankerbrandt join as its chief financial officer. Earlier this year, Ankerbrandt helped steward Compass' much-anticipated initial public offering that valued the firm at about $7 billion. "We had $370 million in revenue in 2017, and we did $3.7 billion in 2020, which is pretty incredible," Ankerbrandt said. For years, upstarts in the residential real-estate business have sought to displace or deprioritize the role of the broker.
☆ Emerging markets, M&A, and new services: here are the key trends to watch in the fast-changing payments space
  + stars: | 2019-09-23 | by ( Shannen Balogh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Emerging markets, led by Latin America, powered 6% growth in global payments revenue last year, according to a brand new report from McKinsey. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company published its 2019 Global Payments Map report on Monday at the Sibos conference in London. It flagged strong growth in areas of global payments revenue, and drilled down into changes that legacy financial institutions may need to make to capture some of the broader space. Emerging markets driving revenue growthMcKinsey expects payments revenues to top $2.7 trillion by 2023. One key factor of growth here is the increase in electronic payments, especially in emerging markets, the report said.
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