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• CNN+ is no more after just a few weeks

  • Only 10,000 daily users 150k subs
  • Netflix 221M subs, Disney+ 129M
  • Move comes as Warner and Discover merge. New CEO, David Zaslav, who wasn’t pumped about the project said he will be working to merge all the companies streaming services into one (HBO Max, Discovery)
• Cox Automotive released 10 key insights this week from its KBB Team
  • Toyota is still on top
  • EVs sales continue to increase
  • Only four brands delivered year-over-year sales gains: BMW, Genesis, Mini, and Tesla
  • Ford’s F-Series is still king
  • Fiat sold only 340 vehicles in Q1
  • Luxury brands grabbed more share in Q1
  • Tesla is still the dominant player in the EV market
  • Small vehicles are more popular than mid-sized, but the large are the most popular models
  • In luxury, new is important
  • Three segments account for 49% of US auto sales: Compact SUVs, Full-Size Pickups, Mid-Size SUVs
• Times Square went dark as part of a marketing campaign by crypto mining company Algorand
  • The entire block went dark between 8 and 9 pm to conserve 23.4 billion joules of energy
  • That amount would only power 1.5 seconds of Bitcoin network operations and only 6 transactions…however, on Algorand, that amount would power 350 million transactions and 2 weeks of network operations
  • This is due to the manner in which the company authenticates transactions
  • The tech was developed by MIT professor Silvio Micali

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