October 28, 2017

In this week’s subscription news, Amazon introduces paid subscriptions for Alexa skills, Facebook and Apple can’t agree on terms for subscriptions, and Porsche is the next luxury car maker to launch a subscription program. Also this week, we are reading about Disney’s plans to compete with Netflix, CBS’s renewal of ‘Star Trek: Discovery,’ available exclusively on CBS All Access, and speculation that a Spotify IPO could raise $100 million.