Gary Neville believes Manchester City must win at Anfield this afternoon to prove one final point under Pep Guardiola.
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Retail giant Walmart is acquiring smart TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in a deal that will alter the streaming advertising landscape.
While Vizio is a leading manufacturer of televisions, rivaling Samsung for supremacy in North America, Walmart is not mainly interested in its hardware business, however. Instead, it has coveted Vizio’s SmartCast Operating System, which has 18 million active accounts to be targeted by advertisers. With Amazon knitting together e-commerce and streaming ads with increasing potency, Walmart identified an opportunity in Vizio to counter-attack.
Walmart has had phases of interest in the U.S. media business, selling its Vudu streaming subsidiary to NBCUniversal’s Fandango in 2020 after a 10-year run.
Given that Walmart is a top retailer of smart TVs, integrating Vizio should be a more streamlined process than building out Vudu. It also sends a shot across the bow of Roku, whose interface is in one-third of all smart TVs in North America. The company will now face another scaled competitor for streaming ad dollars. Shares in Roku, which plunged 24% last Friday in the wake of a mixed quarterly earnings report, slid another 5% in premarket trading today on the Walmart-Vizio news.
“There is a lot to be excited about with this acquisition,” said Seth Dallaire, EVP and chief revenue officer, Walmart U.S. “We believe Vizio’s customer-centric operating system provides great viewing experiences at attractive price points. We also believe it enables a profitable advertising business that is rapidly scaling. Our media business, Walmart Connect, is helping brands create meaningful connections with the millions of customers who shop with us each week. We believe the combination of these two businesses
Gary Neville believes Manchester City must win at Anfield this afternoon to prove one final point under Pep Guardiola.
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interview with “Good Morning America,” where he hinted that the recent health woes could have a “reunifying effect” on his family.But it seems as though that feeling is not reciprocated 5,459 miles away from Montecito, Calif., as sources close to the monarch say he’s “firmly of the opinion” that Harry can’t return as a working royal.“Have the King and Harry been speaking? Yes. Does this mean a return to the fold even on a temporary basis? No,” a source told the Daily Mail.Another insider added, “Aside from a small number of investitures, the King does not plan to offload a great number of duties on other family members while he undergoes treatment.”Other sources noted that Harry’s “half-in, half-out” approach simply isn’t enough to see him return to the royal fold with his wife, Meghan Markle.Despite that, insiders claim that Charles, 75, would be open to fixing his damaged relationship with his youngest son.The Post has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.Over the weekend, sources close to Harry told Page Six that the Duke of Sussex would be willing to return to royal duties if he was asked to.“I have a hard time believing if his dad asks for his help that Harry would say no, I think he would try,” an insider said.But at the same time, the source added: “I don’t think it’s something that Harry would ask [to do] on his own.”During his interview on “GMA” Friday, Harry said, “I think any illness, any sickness brings families together.