A few months ago, Walmart released its highly anticipated competitor to Amazon Prime, Walmart+. While the service is slowly becoming a success for the company, studies show that only 11% of US shoppers have signed up for Walmart+. Meaning millions of Walmart customers still have not subscribed to Walmart+.

Understandably so, many consumers question why they would pay for Walmart+ when they could receive the same benefits plus more from Amazon Prime.

Compared to Amazon Prime, Walmart+’s valuation proposition is nowhere near Prime’s when compared side-to-side. Amazon Prime includes many more benefits than Walmart+ and recently released a new pharmacy option for its members. …

This article is a direct successor to the recent product review I did on the IOS time-blocking app, Sorted 3. Again I want to state that I have no direct affiliation with the Sorted team. I am only a daily user of this app. Sorted 3 has added an enormous amount of value through effectiveness to my life. Below I continue to share my experience and how I utilize Sorted 3’s functions for total daily productivity.

Elon Musk and “Time-Blocking”

Like previously mentioned, time-blocking is a scheduling method used by professionals to maximize productivity. Those who utilize the time-blocking method know that to maximize productivity fully, you schedule something productive for every waking hour of your day. …

Determining the long-term value of a party-like driving range company in its early stages is difficult to do. Especially when Topgolf International Inc. was planning to IPO at $4 billion earlier this year but put those plans on hold due to COVID-19. Now, Callaway Golf Co has announced that it plans to buy the remainder of Topgolf Entertainment Holdings.

Bloomberg says the deal values Topgolf at roughly $2 billion, a significant drop from the $4 billion price tag it was searching for in its IPO earlier this year. Callaway, known for its drivers and other golf equipment, already owned about 14% of Topgolf. …

Snap Inc surged over 24% after the software company reported well ahead of analysts’ estimates on quarterly revenue and user growth. Snap’s revenue jumped 52% to $678.7 million and reported 249 million daily active users during the quarter.

Winning Streaks

Snap attracted more advertisers this quarter because of a rise in spending and increased usage of mobile devices for communication and entertainment during the pandemic. Snap’s CEO, Evan Spiegel, was pleased with this quarter’s results and noted that the company would be further investing long-term on things including augmented reality for its app.

Specific consumer stats:

- The average number of Snaps created every day grew 25%…

Before reading this product review, I wanted to state that I have no direct affiliation with the Sorted team. I am only a daily user of the app. I also wanted to say that this is my first ever product review. And I want anyone reading this to know I will only ever recommend products that I have used for more than three months, as I believe I have created a strong enough opinion on said product. And if a said product has provided immense value to my life, I will write about it. …

Let’s paint a picture: Two standalone streaming platforms, one serves users movie and tv content while the other music and podcasts. Each is dominant in their perspective platforms, with more than 100 million subscribers each, and competitors looking to defeat them with any angle. You may have guessed it, but today I am writing about Netflix and Spotify, two digital streaming companies that look very similar on the outside but are entirely different on the inside.

Below, I break down how different Spotify is from Netflix, Spotify’s money-saving playlist algorithm, and exactly how Spotify’s move to buy the popular podcaster, Joe Rogan, is Spotify showing its hand that it aspires to become more like Netflix. …

Two weeks ago, Disney announced that its new streaming service, Disney Plus, had surpassed 50 million subscribers. This news came only a little more than two months following Disney reporting just 28 million subscribers in February.

At the same time, content rival Netflix reported a similar jump in numbers picking up nearly 16 million subscribers over the last quarter. Both of these subscriber jumps are partially due to the extensive government stay-at-home orders brought about because of this year’s COVID-19 pandemic.

While almost doubling its Disney Plus subscribers, many of the major news outlets have failed to mention and carefully review Disney’s all-encompassing content strategy. Below is a small, yet comprehensive analysis of how Disney expects to prevail in all areas of streaming (not just family-friendly) for the next decade. …

Over the past few weeks, America’s “favorite” billionaire started showing up in various media platforms after an old TED talk he gave in March 2015 resurfaced. Just five years ago, Bill Gates shared a fortune most were short of throwing away rather than reread or align themselves and their leadership with.

He said (speaking of a future outbreak), “We’re not ready.”

And Gates was unbelievably right. The coronavirus pandemic will be something that changes the way countries think about mass disease, business, and society for ages to come.

So what has the Microsoft cofounder and problem-solving machine decided to spend his time on besides going on air to say, “I told you so?” Gates has developed a plan to spend billions in fighting the Coronavirus. Just this week, Gates announced that his foundation would spend billions on building seven factories for the makers of the most promising efforts in finishing a Coronavirus vaccine. …