monopolies

Vivenu, a ticketing platform that offers an API for venues and promoters to customize to their needs, has closed a $15 million (€12.6 million) Series A funding round led by…

Vivenu, a ticketing API for events, closes a $15M Series A round led by Balderton Capital

As college football’s second week draws to a close, one storyline has gotten an unusual amount of attention: the game’s slumping attendance numbers.

As college football attendance slumps, new ways to ticket may hold an answer

Among the many myths that were laid low in 2018, perhaps none was as welcome to throngs of live-event fans as the fantasy of the sold-out show.

In 2018 the ticketing industry finally killed the ‘sold-out’ show

Comcast and Ticketmaster are rolling out a feature to let Xfinity X1 customers search tour dates and begin the ticket buying process directly through their televisions — using voice search…

Buy tickets for concerts on TV with the new Comcast and Ticketmaster feature
Media & Entertainment

Makers or breakers?

9:54 am PST • November 26, 2017

The weight of problems being demonstrably attached to heavily used tech services has acquired such a gravitational and political pull that it’s becoming harder and harder for these businesses to…

Makers or breakers?

Forget Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — we need a trust-buster like Teddy Roosevelt, who in 1902 attacked the Northern Securities Company, a railroad holding company led by J.P. Morgan…

Why AI consolidation will create the worst monopoly in US history

We’ve all heard horror stories about Comcast and, let’s face it, every large corporation has its share of dismal customer service experiences from time to time. The problem with Comcast,…