Google today announced that it is raising the price of its G Suite subscriptions for the first time. In the U.S., the prices of G Suite Basic and G Suite Business editions will increase by $1 and $2 per user/month, respectively, while increases in other regions will be adjusted according to the local currency and […]
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Miles gives you reward miles for almost everything
Reward miles are nice if you fly a lot but what if you bike or take Lyfts or just like to wander around town? A new app called Miles aims to give you rewards for all of those things, bringing the concept of rewards out of the air and onto the ground. Miles, co-founded by […]
View More Miles gives you reward miles for almost everythingEU fines Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing
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 […]
View More EU fines Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixingMoviePass launches surge pricing and ugh, it’s higher than expected
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MoviePass will now charge extra for peak showtimes of popular movies. As of Thursday, that means up to $3.43 on top of the flat monthly rate the service charges for unlimited movies in theaters.
When we learned in June that MoviePass would be getting surge pricing, it didn’t sound all bad. The surge was estimated to be $2, and the company also planned to add IMAX/3-D tickets.
The example provided Thursday by MoviePass listed Avengers: Infinity War at 7 p.m. with the $3.43 surcharge, per the Hollywood Reporter. Other peak prices could vary, though probably not much higher than this one; Infinity War is an in-demand movie if there ever was one. Read more…
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Huawei’s MateBook X Pro, one of the few Windows-based laptops that I find to be a worthy alternative to Apple’s MacBook Pro, is now available in the U.S.
Rest of the world be warned, though: The U.S. price tags on this Windows laptop are infuri…
Interiors marketplace eporta raises $8M, led by Canvas Ventures
In this day and age of higher expectation in offices, sourcing your furniture from Ikea no longer cuts the proverbial mustard. But the furniture industry is notoriously old fashioned, forcing buyers to leaf through hundreds of paper catalogues, most of which are outdated by the time you get around to ordering. The global design and […]
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One of the truisms of software business strategy is that services is bad business; heck, we’ve also said it. The reason, put bluntly, is that it’s a business with low margins and is not as scalable. So in the early days of bringing to market a complex enterprise software product, the repeated feedback I got from nearly all my advisors was to make sure customers were… Read More