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In this week’s subscription digest, we feature Bloomberg’s digital transformation story with their foray into subscriptions. In addition, we feature two big announcements from Amazon and an interesting organic baby food subscription service.

After taking on groceries, Amazon now has its sights set on the fashion industry with the Amazon Prime Wardrobe. Keeping in mind Amazon’s history of gradual domination of retail markets, Prime Wardrobe seems to be a step in the right direction. Shashank Venkat with the report 

Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods fits neatly with Jeff Bezos’ strategic vision of making Amazon the ‘everything’ store. This latest announcement is in line with Amazon’s unpredictable strategic moves which can take everyone by surprise. Shashank Venkat decodes the e-commerce giant’s latest acquisition and explores its impact on Amazon’s fast growing Prime subscription service.

In this week’s subscription weekly digest, we bring you a brand new announcement from Facebook - the tech giant is planning to roll out a paid news subscription feature on its Instant Articles platform. Will Facebook be successful with its new subscription model? Read this and our other top stories this week:

Apps are ubiquitous these days but there is still a lot of confusion about how to bill and pay for goods and services within them, especially on the iOS platform. Brian Coombs takes a look at the problem and solutions available.

Fierce competition is driving down prices and creating a race to the bottom for mobile data services. How can Telcos turn the tables and transform their fortunes? 

In this week's subscription weekly roundup, we feature another gaming company that has joined the subscription bandwagon. Nintendo’s announcement comes close on the heels of Microsoft Xbox’s foray into the subscription space. Will the subscription model change the gaming industry forever? Read this story and our other top headlines this week: 

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which aims to strengthen data protection and harmonise data regulations in the European Union, will have a significant impact on subscription-based businesses. But are these businesses primed for this milestone regulatory change? 

The challenge of supporting the explosion of the Internet of Things has already been set in motion, meaning that Communications Services Providers (CSPs) will have to evolve their existing business models to support these services.

In this week's subscription weekly roundup, we feature an interesting story from the White House. It seems that even the President of the United States, Donald Trump, seems to be a fan of the subscription business model as he launched a subscription box for his supporters. Will this spark off a new trend among political parties? Read this story and our other top headlines this week: