Weekly Subscription News: Amazon, Apple and Uber Eats

In this week’s subscription news, Amazon agrees to acquire Eero to help customers connect to their smart home devices, Medium buys The Bold Italic,

In this week’s subscription news, Amazon agrees to acquire Eero to help customers connect to their smart home devices, Medium buys The Bold Italic, and Sling TV is now the largest live streaming TV provider. Also this week, Apple hits publishers hard with a 50 percent revenue split for Apple News, Fiverr plans to acquire content marketing platform ClearVoice, and TechCrunch launches its first subscription product.

Medium Buys Bay Area Mag The Bold Italic to Add to its Paywall
TechCrunch

Amazon to Acquire Eero to Help Customers Better Connect to Smart Home Devices
Amazon

Sling TV Beats Hulu, YouTube to Largest Live Streaming TV Provider Title
Tech Radar

Apple Goes for the Jugular with Subscription Revenue Deal
Columbia Journalism Review

How Uber Eats is Turning into a Billion-Dollar Business to Rival Grubhub
Forbes

Fiverr Acquires Premium Subscription-Based Content Marketing Platform ClearVoice
Globe Newswire

TechCrunch Introduces Subscription Product, Expands Coverage, Membership Offerings
Media Post

How Everyone Got It Wrong About Facebook’s Friendly Fraud Problem
Monica Eaton-Cardone, Chargeback

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Dana E. Neuts

Dana Neuts is Subscription Insider's Editorial Director, covering our daily subscription news as well as member features, case studies, premium content, and reports. Dana is also a writer, editor, marketer and communications professional. Her work has appeared in AARP Bulletin, The Seattle Times, Seattle Business, 425 Business, 425 Magazine, South Sound Magazine, Northwest Travel and more. Her specialties include business writing, community news, senior issues, travel and, of course, subscriptions!