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Austin Carr

@austincarr.bsky.social

Features writer at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine & Bloomberg News. Signal: acarr.54 X: https://x.com/AustinCarr

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Cecilia D'Anastasio@cecianasta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New -- Valve: anticorporate hero or big tech but small? Gamers know Valve as a freewheeling enterprise, but previously unreported docs show controversial business practices that, critics say, restrict both gamers and game-makers. Feature w @austincarr.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Valve, the Anticorporate Hero of the Games Industry, Has Its Antitrust Moment

Lawsuits in the US and the UK allege the company’s Steam store is abusing its market power. Valve disagrees.

bloomberg.com

Dina Bass@dinabass.bsky.social · last yr.

2 years ago Microsoft set out to spin an early GenAI lead (courtesy of the OpenAI deal) into corporate & consumer AI gold. @austincarr.bsky.social I take a look at how it's gone, how Satya is hedging bets, building new AI models & navigating changing OAI conditions www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Microsoft’s CEO on How AI Will Remake Every Company, Including His

Nervous customers and a volatile partnership with OpenAI are complicating things for Satya Nadella and the world’s most valuable company.

bloomberg.com

cale weissman@caleweissman.bsky.social · 2y ago

I still have an app on my phone called "birthcandle" that i downloaded at a bar over 10 years ago so my friend could blow out candles on her birthday. The app no longer opens but I refuse to delete it. bsky.app/profile/aust...

Austin Carr@austincarr.bsky.social · 2y ago

God, I really miss the simpler days of Yo and HQ Trivia... New @bloomberg.com essay on why I keep "ghost apps" on my iPhone like Foursquare & Vine: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Alex Blechman@alexblechman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Walgreens lost $200 million installing 10,000 video doors nobody wants or needs. We could already see soda bottles through the glass. What they should have done is install 10,000 video doors that all display Han Solo frozen in carbonite

Those stupid video screen fridge doors at Walgreens that show bottles on a shelf. The bottles behind the door
Austin Carr@austincarr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Walgreens putting food and drinks behind high-tech refrigerator screens also turned out to be a disaster. New @bloomberg.com feature on the $200 million lawsuit sparked from Walgreens' attempt to digitize the cooler aisle www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco

A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.

bloomberg.com

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’

Austin Carr@austincarr.bsky.social · 2y ago

They also can be insanely profitable on secondary markets if you're clever enough www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Robbing the Xbox Vault: Inside a $10 Million Gift Card Fraud

A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme in the ultimate virtual currency cheat.

bloomberg.com

Barry Ritholtz@ritholtz.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's called "Breakage" and it's a large part of why Gift Cards are so popular with retailers -- they are insanely profitable... "Americans are sitting on an estimated $27 billion in unused gift cards, with the average person holding $244 in unspent balances." qz.com/americans-27...

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 2y ago

Heavy rains Wednesday night flooded a ramp in the Ted Williams Tunnel along with other highways and left some 2,000 customers without electricity early Thursday, according to the National Weather Service and MassDOT. trib.al/WEqmC4a (Video courtesy of @mariabarajas_ and @drevankappler)