Disney “called it exactly right” when it shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic last year to the three-pronged strategy of releasing some feature films direct to theaters, others exclusively through Disney+, and still others as a hybrid Premier Access option through theaters and on Disney+ streaming, CEO Bob Chapek told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference virtually Tuesday. Amid the market's "vast uncertainties," deciding which film goes to which channel is akin to working a stick shift, he said: "We’re making the right calls at the right time”

The summer surge in COVID-19's delta variant appears to be having a “significant impact” on anticipated consumer shopping behaviors before the peak holiday selling season, a Pitney Bowes survey found. The company canvassed a nationally representative sample of 2,000 U.S. consumers in the past month, finding one in three plans to shop more online compared with current shopping patterns, it said Tuesday.

If there are lessons from the semiconductor shortage, it’s that major supply chain disruptions “don’t have quick fixes,” reported Bain & Co. Monday. Lesson 2 is that the current chips shortage is “unlikely to be the last tech supply chain disruption that affects multiple industries, as more products across sectors rely on components that share the same manufacturing capacity,” said Bain’s Technology Report 2021.

Roku is heading into the holiday quarter with new 4K streaming sticks with voice control, a revamped Ultra LT player and an upgraded operating system, said the company Monday.

An FTC investigator met this month with a group of Nebraska farmers who allege John Deere is abusing data privacy. Deere’s “monopolistic” data practices are preventing farmers’ right to repair, they alleged.

Widespread demand and critical shortages have forced traditionally cautious semiconductor industry players to add capacity, said Tien Wu, CEO of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, on a supply chain panel at Wednesday's Silicon Labs Works With 2021 conference.

CES 2022 organizers are “still moving ahead” with the Jan. 5-8 in-person show at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), emailed a spokesperson Thursday in reply to our queries about the fate of the event after surges in COVID-19's delta variant forced the cancellation of the Oct. 9-13 NAB Show 2021 at the same venue (see 2109150064 or 2109150062).

The Bureau of Industry and Security should establish a blanket exemption for U.S. people and companies to participate in standards-setting bodies that have members designated on the Entity List, industry officials said. Though BIS has been working on a final rule that would clarify how export restrictions apply to the release of controlled technology at standards-setting organizations, tech-sector officials said they're unsure how the rule’s final language will read and are concerned some of the agency’s restrictions, which they view as unnecessary, may continue.

The FTC voted along party lines in passing eight omnibus resolutions designed to increase investigative powers for agency staff, the agency announced Tuesday. Cracking down on manufacturer restrictions on independent, third-party repairs was one area of focus.

The 2021 NAB Show is shifting to a virtual event, and won't convene in-person at the Las Vegas Convention Center Oct. 9-13, the association announced Wednesday. The 2022 NAB Show, set for April 23-27, is still planned to be in-person, NAB said. Several other conventions are still set to proceed, including CES 2022 in early January..