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• Netflix is testing ads for its original content that will play while you binge watch, and users are not pleased (NFLX)

  19-08-2018 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is testing ads for its original content in between TV episodes, the company confirmed to tech-website ARS Technica.
  Netflix referred to the ads as "recommendations" it is testing.
  But Netflix users are not pleased, and took to social media this weekend to criticize the move.
  Netflix isn't calling the new ads for its original content "commercial breaks", but that hasn't stopped subscribers from voicing their displeasure.
  The company confirmed to tech-website ARS Technica on Friday that it
  
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• There’s a $1 trillion question hanging over stocks right now — and the answer could determine the ultimate fate of the market

  19-08-2018 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Followers of the stock market have been focused on Apple's ascent above $1 trillion in market value, but there's a different trillion-dollar threshold that's more important to the long-term health of the stock market.
  Whether the breaking of the $1 trillion milestone is a good or bad thing for equities depends on how one interprets the data, and both sides are laid out below.
  If you follow the stock market in any capacity, you know that Apple's recent climb above $1 trillion in market value
  
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• 'Crazy Rich Asians' dominates the box office with a $25.2 million weekend take, $34 million 5-day opening (T)

  19-08-2018 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Crazy Rich Asians" won the weekend box office with an estimated $25.2 million, and has taken in $34 million since it opened on Wednesday.
  It's the latest movie this year to prove that if Hollywood offers movies with authentically diverse voices, audiences will come.
  For the second-straight weekend, a Warner Bros. movie is atop the domestic box office mountain.
  "Crazy Rich Asians" won the weekend box office with an estimated $25.2 million, and has earned $34 million since it opened on Wednesday.
  
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• Even after massively diluting its stock, MoviePass' parent company could issue billions of more shares, and there's little investors can do about it (HMNY)

  19-08-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Helios and Matheson, the parent company of MoviePass, has already massively diluted shareholders by issuing hundreds of millions of shares.
  But investors could see a lot more dilution to come.
  The company has the authority to issue billions of additional shares and has shown that it will sell stock to fund MoviePass' ongoing losses.
  The tactic could come to an end if the company's stock gets delisted or if it hits a cap on the number of shares it can issue.
  Be warned, MoviePass investors: your s
  
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• It looks like 'Y2K all over again' for stocks as evidence of an imminent crash continues to pile up

  19-08-2018 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The market is facing a growing number of alarming comparisons between the dot-com era and current conditions.
  The most recent observation, from Leuthold Group, relates to the jagged, uninspiring recovery by US stocks since their 11% correction earlier this year.
  Other bearish parallels — specifically those relating to valuation — tie into arguments raised by reputed market bear John Hussman, who sees a 67% stock-market drop brewing.
  As stock market valuations have swelled to within s
  
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• Trump's fight with Turkey is helping Russia and Iran

  19-08-2018 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trump's trade war is driving Turkey into the arms of Iran and Qatar.
  Russia and China won't mind that at all.
  What does the US gain from all this?
  Trump might get that preacher back.
  And, er ... that's it.LONDON — Late on Thursday night, the White House threatened further economic sanctions against Turkey if it fails to release detained American pastor Andrew Brunson.
  Brunson has been under house arrest for almost two years in Turkey for his alleged links to a banned Turkish political move
  
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• The 'conundrum' at the heart of the British economy is getting worse — and economists are baffled

  19-08-2018 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  UK unemployment fell to a fresh record low this week, but wage growth is still failing to gain momentum.
  Andrew Goodwin, lead UK economist at Oxford Economics, calls this the "conundrum" at the heart of the British labour market.
  Sadly, there seems to be no end in sight to stagnant wage growth for British workers.LONDON — UK's unemployment rate fell to just 4% this week — it's lowest level since comparable records began in the early 1970s — and some commentators took it as a si
  
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• How an invite-only meeting at Apple's luxury loft in New York set the stage for one of the world's biggest subscription businesses (AAPL)

  19-08-2018 02:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Apple's App Store may be the world's largest software distribution platform.
  But there are concerns that the competitiveness of the marketplace may make it difficult to maintain high-quality utility apps.
  Apple is strongly encouraging developers to transition to a subscription, software-as-a-service model, and held an invitation-only meeting in the spring of 2017 to convince developers to lean in to the new business model.
  In April 2017, a group of over 30 software developers gathered at a luxur
  
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