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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

MishTalk

The sites fall into the same category as video-on-demand services, the organization said; so they would be subject to French cultural protection laws that require distributors to hand over some of their revenues to help subsidize productions. Subsidies For Films No One Watches Forbes has some interesting comments as well.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. For one, instead of establishing their own online sales site, they partnered with Amazon, a formidable rival. This company was doing great as the leader in video rentals. billion in 1991.

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How Netflix’s Content Strategy Is Reshaping Movie Culture

Harvard Business

” If you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that one line probably conjures up memories of Oh yeah, chicka chicka, Ferraris, playing hooky, and dating in high school — all of which feature heavily in the hit coming-of-age film. This is how Blockbuster used to operate, at least when it came to mainstream domestic films.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business

A famous example is YouTube, which began as a video dating site back in 2005. The site failed to gain traction so the founders, leveraging what they learned while building the original platform, launched another version of the website focusing on sharing videos online, with significantly more success. customers in order to boost sales.

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NFTs are a dangerous trap

Seth Godin Blog

Like a Pokemon card, or an original Picasso drawing or the actual frame of a Disney animated film from 1955, NFTs are designed to be the one and only, a shred of non-fungible reality in a world gone digital. They sell at garage sales for dollars, not millions, and original (and beautiful) works of art go unsold every day.

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Options for Post Consulting Careers

CaseInterview.com

I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. Or are clients unhappy because your products stink? Or a problem involving sales and marketing over-selling and over-promising in their messages, causing the client to have unrealistic expectations? Work in product management.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business

Many leading American digital firms, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Uber, have successfully expanded internationally by introducing their products, services, and platforms in other countries. It does not include traditional IT firms that rely on sales of hardware or software as their main source of revenue.). Related Video.