Looks like McDonald's is taking a page from the Yum! playbook as it explores shedding chunks of it's Asian business.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-looks-to-sell-part-of-stake-in-japan-business-1484219630
To say that Snapchat's growth prospects have looked somewhat darkened would probably be an understatement. The one-time unicorn of tech just wrapped up its second-ever earnings on Thursday missing analysts’ expectations and reporting slower than expected daily active user growth = no good. Add on top of this that Facebook's Instagram is constantly copying Snapchat's innovation and the picture gets dimmer. BUT, is there still light at the end for this fading star? Perhaps. With a few recent acquisitions Snapchat may be pivoting/repositioning itself in much the same way Foursquare did to move from being a check-in app to a location data-collection manager with a social element. Which means not only will advertisers know where their key consumer is but also how they may be interacting with their brand and if not how to seamlessly introduce their brand in the path-to-purchase. The first of these acquisitions that points Snapchat in this general direction was Zenly, a French ...
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