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Wednesday, January 5, 2022
HBO Max shows growth despite industry slowdown
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| The logo for HBO is pictured during the HBO presentation at the Cable portion of the Television Critics Association Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser |
HBO ended the year with 73.8 million subscribers to its streaming service and its eponymous cable network, up from 69.4 million in September.
Those gains, coupled with the addition of nearly 900,0000 monthly paid phone subscribers, pushed the stock up 3% to $ 26.46. in the midday exchanges.
“I think the streaming service's cap is much higher than what we've seen to date,” WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said in an interview.
“This will quickly become a three-way race for storytelling companies.
HBO Max still has a long way to go to capture market leader Netflix Inc, with 214 million subscribers, and Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) Disney +, with 118 million. Disney's growth slowed in the company's fiscal fourth quarter, prompting a banker to downgrade the stock. Disney + added just 2.1 million in the October quarter. Netflix, which slowed sharply in the first half of 2021, saw its subscriptions increase in October, adding 4.4 million during the quarter, driven by the global sensation “Squid Game".
WarnerMedia's HBO Max logged gains as it expanded the server reach from a single market, the United States, to 46 countries. Kilar said global expansion will continue this year, eventually targeting 190 countries.
AT&T (T.N) announced last May that it would split its WarnerMedia unit and merge it with Discovery (DISCA.O). The deal is expected to be finalized in the middle of this year.
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Improving Performance With SQL Aggregate Functions
In this article, you will learn how SQL aggregate functions can represent an easy way to significantly improve your application's performance. Mainly, you will see how they were a game-changer in a real-world scenario based on a data-driven application developed for a startup operating in the sports industry.
Let's now delve deeper into this scenario and learn why you can't ignore SQL aggregate functions in data science.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022
NullPointerException in Java: Causes and Ways to Avoid It
NullPointerException: The Most Common Exception
NullPointerException (NPE) is the most common exception in Java. The cause of this exception is known but looks like that in most cases developers prefer to ignore it and don't take any action. I personally expect that reasons for such behavior are the following:
- Most of the developers don't see any problem here and recognize all NPE exceptions as the developer's fault.
- Developers who are aware of this design problem don't know how to fix it.
In this article, I'll explain what is the root of this problem and provide ways to fix that problem.
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