All articles by Pedro Rodríguez – Page 8
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ArticleNew alliance, and new level of business, in pickleball
Major League Pickleball by Margaritaville (MLP) and Carvana Pro Pickleball Association Tour (PPA Tour) have merged “under a unified and definitive professional pickleball holding company.” The deal will preserve the two brands – the PPA Tour being a “traditional, bracket-style tour” and the MLP being a “team-based, coed league.” Combined, ...
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ArticleHave NFT-issuing sports brands entered a new business?
BlockFi, OpenSea, Coinbase, Binance, FTX, Ripple, Impact Theory, Grayscale – all of them companies that have undergone investigation and government-initiated lawsuits over the past couple of years. The land of crypto, where sports brands have begun to tread over the past few years, is a land of confusion, and not ...
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ArticleMeta up in Q2 except in the metaverse
“We had a good quarter,” is CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s summation. “We continue to see strong engagement across our apps, and we have the most exciting roadmap I’ve seen in a while with Llama 2, Threads, Reels, new AI products in the pipeline, and the launch of Quest 3 this fall.” ...
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ArticleTwitter to become nothing, anything, everything
It appears that we were on to something a few months ago. Twitter has taken another step towards becoming X – “the everything app.” But what does this mean, and why the change in a brand as iconic as Twitter? We take a look.
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ArticleA “courtside” look at the pádel market
Sales have been flat so far this year at Padel Courts Deluxe, CEO Fernando Cánovas tells CMDsport. Now that mid-year is behind us, moreover, he believes it safe to say that 2023 will be a year of transition in the pádel-court business, with growth picking up once more in the ...
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ArticleFashion fast and slow, preferably slow
A number of European mayors, many of them attending the latest edition of the ChangeNOW show in Paris, have signed the “Declaration to Drive Sustainable Fashion.” The declaration is an appeal to the EU, the G7 and the OECD to tip the fashion industry’s playing field in slow fashion’s favor. ...
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ArticleAmazon puts the moves on France
In the Pixar movie of the same name, a Provençal dish called ratatouille serves to save the soul of a crotchety old food critic in France. The stewed vegetables produce an epiphany, hitting the critic like the madeleine hit Proust, and transport him back “in search of lost time” or ...
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ArticleWhat if the metaverse settled for something simple?
BitNile Metaverse says that its metaverse at BitNile.com has surpassed 500,000 “active users” in the month since it opened its “early-access phase.” Question is, why should we care? After all, a single metaverse like Roblox – which, as our readers might recall, has deals with Nike, Adidas, H&M and FIFA ...
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ArticleTowards a money tweet?
The Delaware corporation known as Twitter was merged into a new Nevada corporation known as X Corp. on March 15. This is according to SilverFlume, the business portal for the latter U.S. state. The owner of both, Elon Musk, has since tweeted a message consisting of a single letter: X. ...
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ArticleTokens here and everywhere
In a study it has recently released titled “Digital Assets Trends,” a company by the name of Reply has concluded that tokenization can be universal. In other words, just about anything can be turned into or paired with a digital asset on a blockchain. Over the past couple of years, ...
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ArticleFor indie sneakers, all players in one arena
A first decentralized brand for sneakers has seen the light of digital day on a platform created by a company called Madeium and run in part with tech from a company called Intertrust. Under the name Yxung, the brand runs on a peer-to-peer (P2P) model. You might remember P2P as ...
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ArticleRevenues up by 18% at Decathlon France, up 21% globally
While global sales reach a new record with €13.8 billion in 2021, France remains the most important market for Decathlon.
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ArticleNike sues StockX, and explores the nature of NFTs
The age-old philosophical debate over the nature of simulacra has found new life in new forums: the metaverse, where big brands have been recreating their products in virtual form, and the courts, where those same brands are now clashing with other business entities over the realities, virtual and other, of ...
