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Three Twitter problems Elon Musk needs to worry about and Two potential solutions to bring Twitter back into the revenue game

Twitter is struggling to gain users and it is impacting the ad revenue. It is definitely time for Twitter leadership to step back and reevaluate the business strategy. Twitter as a services company and Twitter as a social company should be separated. Allow third parties to connect and moderate their own content.

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3 problems faced by OTT/entertainment industry and why gaming is a potential solution

OTT industry is fighting hard for user attention, building IP, and producing content that will bring back subscribers. Gaming is a potential solution to these problems. Gamers across the world are rising and are attracted to franchise-based games. Live streaming is another solution. Both will provide an alternate revenue stream and attentive user time.

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Unity and Meta – A formidable combination, it’s a win-win 

Unity software is on a staggering journey growing their revenue over 40% CAGR for last 5 years. Their Metaverse vision to build RT3D content and their control over creator market in gaming makes them a perfect candidate for Meta (FB) to acquire. I explore the opportunity for M&A of Unity and Meta.

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Read more about the article Metaverse and Numbers: Understanding the COST and TAM – Part III of the Metaverse series
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Metaverse and Numbers: Understanding the COST and TAM – Part III of the Metaverse series

What we need are the social attitudes to change to experience this new era on the internet. Metaverse is the grand vision to provide a parallel universe. Costs of building it are high (in the range of ~$700B). The market is close to $14T. Is it all speculative or can companies like Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, etc. make it happen? There is a lot to unpack and understand. I explore these scenarios and dive more to understand the market of a metaverse in this article.

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Three things we need to make Metaverse happen – Part 2 of the Metaverse series

In part 1 I questioned the future of metaverse. Here I am presenting the top three things required to make it happen. 1. Network - high bandwidth and low latency 2. Hardware - Consumer hardware (AR/VR/haptic gloves) to Compute hardware 3. Interoperability to allow virtual environments to talk to each other. Transfer your NFTs from one world to another.

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