Re/code Daily - What You Should Know About the Biggest Commerce Weekend of the Year - Nov 30, 2015

Read Now  • Here are some digital commerce takeaways from Thanksgiving-Black Friday 2015: The shopping season starts on Thursday, not Friday, and more than half of online shopping traffic now comes via the phone. But more people still end up buying things on desktop sites than on mobile sites -- an indicator that retailers haven't figured out phones quite yet. [Jason Del Rey | Re/code] • Google wants to build its own high-speed Internet system. The company is also toying with taking on pay TV, and it's figuring out new ways to expand broadband availability. Meet Access, the unit of its Alphabet holding company tasked with making all this happen. [Mark Bergen | Re/code] • On the new episode of "Re/code Decode", Kara Swisher talks with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky about the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Airbnb's major political battle in San Francisco. Later on, Lauren Goode goes over The Verge's 2015 holiday gift guide. Look out for Peter Kafka's new weekly interview show that starts on Thursday, with inaugural guest Ricky Van Veen, co-founder of CollegeHumor. [Eric Johnson | Re/code] • As a global summit on climate change kicks off today in Paris, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and a group of other well-known billionaires are launching The Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a consortium dedicated to making big investments in clean energy. [Mark Bergen | Re/code] • People who make TV shows — the studios and the talent — make a lot of money from putting their stuff on Netflix. They're less happy about the deals that networks are inking to put current season TV show episodes on Hulu, which they argue cuts into their share of the profits. [Shalini Ramachandran | The Wall Street Journal]  Top Stories from Re/code  Media Kobe Bryant Takes NBA Retirement News to Twitter, Not TV. Chris Sacca Is Pumped. By Mark Bergen Social media and Derek Jeter's site over ESPN. General Amazon Drones Are Ready. Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Says So. By Edmund Lee What does the Stieg think? General Capital Gains: Jet.com’s Thanksgiving Haul, Even More Big Delivery Rounds and More By Noah Kulwin Jet.com lands $350 million, Deliveroo nets $100 million. Culture Cards Against Humanity Sells Nothing on Black Friday, Makes $71,000, Spends It Immediately By Eric Johnson It's the third annual anti-Black Friday stunt from the card game company. Media Adele Didn’t Need Streaming Services to Break the Charts, but Everyone Else Probably Will By Mark Bergen The queen of music. Media Rupert Murdoch Twitter Is the Best Twitter By Kenneth Li He said what?!  This Is Cool  New York Magazine Talks to Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Others About "The Big Short" The housing market collapse that induced the Great Recession almost a decade ago doesn't sound like it would make for a Hollywood comedy replete with household names like Brad Pitt, Steve Carell and Christian Bale. But "The Big Short," based on the bestselling book by Michael Lewis, is for real. New York Magazine's Jessica Pressler interviewed everyone worth talking to that worked on the movie about how to make a comedy about economic catastrophe, and what little has changed since 2008. Read more Re/code Daily here! Your friends can also receive Re/code Daily! They can sign-up for FREE here. For Reprints and Permissions, click here. |  News  |  Podcasts  |  Events  | Follow Us: You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Re/code Daily. If you would like to unsubscribe, click here. Mailing Address: Re/code – PO Box 1830, Morgan Hill, CA 95038 Copyright © 2015 Vox Media, Inc.

 

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