 |  | | Friday, November 08, 2019 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy Friday YouTube’s homepage gets a new look, Disney reveals streaming plans in the U.K. and elsewhere and we take a closer look at Microsoft’s strategy to become more innovative. Here’s your Daily Crunch for November 8, 2019. | | | |
| The company announced an updated, cleaner design that does away with information density, instead giving more room to the videos and their titles. Other new features include an "Add to Queue" option on the desktop, a desktop version of YouTube's stop suggesting feature and more. The design changes, which started rolling out yesterday, are focused on the desktop and tablet versions of YouTube, not the YouTube mobile website or app. Read more | |  | | |
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| Disney has revealed more details about its international streaming plans. Keep in mind, though, that Disney+ won’t be exactly the same in every territory, thanks to rights/licensing deals that may already be in place. Read more | | | |
| Across the board, the company is trying to find ways to become more innovative, especially around its work in AI. Microsoft is unusually open about this process, too, and actually made it a focus at this week’s Ignite conference. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | |  Image Credits: TechCrunch | | |
| Alibaba is doubling down on its logistics affiliate Cainiao, two years after acquiring a majority stake in the firm. The Chinese giant said today it would invest an additional 23.3 billion yuan (about $3.33 billion) to raise its equity in Cainiao to 63%. Read more | | | |
| This is the first time there's been a high-bandwidth satellite network for any central Arctic ground-based use, Kepler says, and this connection isn't just a technical demo: it's being used for the hundreds of researchers in the MOSAiC team. Read more | |  Image Credits: By Rear Admiral Harley D. Nygren, NOAA Corps (ret.) - NOAA under a public domain license. | | |
| Sanjay Gupta previously served as a managing director at Disney India and Disney-owned Star. He’ll be replacing Rajan Anandan, who left the company to join VC fund Sequoia Capital. Read more | | | |
| Sir Martin Sorrell has enjoyed huge success, having built the world's biggest advertising conglomerate, WPP, over 32 years. He's also out for revenge, after he left WPP due to allegations of misconduct. Read more | | | |
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