The European Union’s antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer more than €110 million (~$130M) in four separate decisions for imposing fixed or minimum resale prices on their online retailers in breach of EU competition rules. It says the four companies engaged in so called […]
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AMC comes for MoviePass with $20/month Stubs membership — and it sounds awesome
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AMC is adding a monthly subscription service that allows customers to see more movies at lower cost – you know, like MoviePass. The new program will cost $19.95/month for up to three movies a week along with AMC Stubs membership benefits.
AMC denounced MoviePass in 2017 after its unprecedented $9.95/month unlimited subscription, which allows users to see up to one movie per calendar day.
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AMC A-List, launching June 26, is sufficiently different from MoviePass and may prove to be steep competition. Even though it limits users to three movies a week (no rollover), there’s no calendar day restriction, and they can see the same movie more than once, which MoviePass users can’t. Read more…
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Company’s Christmas competition results in very awkward Instagram hashtag fail
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When you’re running an Instagram competition, it’s important to get your hashtag game on point.
You want something snappy, something catchy — maybe something with a bit of alliteration. Something that will be memorable.
This was clearly the thought process British baking company Warburtons had recently when they decided to launch a Christmas crumpet competition.
They had their celebrity — former McFly star Tom Fletcher was on board — and they had their hashtag: #crumpetcreations. They were ready to roll.
A post shared by Warburtons (@warburtonsuk) on Dec 8, 2017 at 9:10am PST Read more…
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View More Company’s Christmas competition results in very awkward Instagram hashtag failWhen you’re on the high school diving team, get ready for some fails
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If you’ve ever been pushed into or tried out for a high school sports team, you probably had your fair share of embarrassing moments.
But don’t worry, you’ll never have to relive them – unless they’re posted on social media…
Twitter user Lesley Goynes (@lesleygoynes) shared a cringe-worthy video of a friend over the weekend, failing to gracefully dive into a pool during a high school diving competition.
So this girl I volunteer with showed me this video last week of her leg giving out during a HS dive competition and I now watch regularly when i need a laugh pic.twitter.com/UalGTUeb9C
— Lesley Goynes (@lesleygoynes) December 2, 2017 Read more…
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View More When you’re on the high school diving team, get ready for some failsAWS kept the announcements coming at a frenetic pace this week
Deep breath. That was quite a deluge of announcements this week at the AWS:reinvent customer conference in Las Vegas. The pace left journalists covering the event dripping in sweat as they put us through our paces like a trainer at a brutal worko…
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