AMC scraps plan to charge more for better seats

[ad_1] AMC Theaters has announced that it’s dropping plans to charge more for preferred seats and less for front-row ones through a tiered pricing system. The plan, called “Sightline,” was being tested in three U.S. markets since March. The company says it saw “little or no increase in patronage of front row seating, despite a … Read more

Leave sex workers out of your NPC TikTok discourse

[ad_1] Every time a woman monetizes the absurd, she’s accused of making fetish content. It’s a symptom of the anti-sex moral panic sweeping pop culture — and this time, it’s coming for TikTok’s NPC creators.  Snippets of these creators’ livestreams keep going viral, and because the internet loves to hate on women, the nonsensical mannerisms … Read more

Amazon is building a $120M facility in Florida for Project Kuiper satellite processing

[ad_1] Amazon will spend $120 million on a new satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), as the company gears up to launch the first batch of Project Kuiper prototype satellites in 2024. Construction is already underway on the new facility, the company said Friday. It will be strategically located near the launch … Read more

Red Hat saved IBM’s bacon this quarter

[ad_1] The Apptio acquisition is looking even more critical to IBM’s future success Ron Miller Alex Wilhelm 7 hours IBM reported earnings this week, and if we’re being honest, the results were rather uninspiring. The company generated revenue of around $15.5 billion, down a disappointing 0.4% from its year-ago result. However, even inside its less … Read more

Pitch Deck Teardown: CleanHub’s $7M seed deck

[ad_1] Plastic in ocean bad. Plastic not in ocean good. That’s, in a nutshell, the pitch for CleanHub. The company has designed a whole business model and a track-and-trace model around that, so brands can rest assured that their plastics don’t end up in the oceans. Who these brands are, and what happens to the … Read more

Paradigm’s CEO dives into diversity on the Builder Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

[ad_1] Despite current culture wars turning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies into a political punching bag, most business leaders understand that they’re very good for business. Yet in a more conservative VC market, the discussions focus more on financials than on how to construct an intentional culture. However, younger generations are bringing updated values … Read more

Telegram rolls out its Stories feature to Premium users

[ad_1] Telegram is rolling out its Stories feature to Premium users, the company confirmed in a tweet on Friday. The official roll out for Premium users comes a month after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the messaging app would be adding Stories in July. It’s currently unknown when Telegram plans to launch Stories for non-Premium … Read more