Sources: Disney explores a membership program similar to Amazon Prime, bundling streaming, theme parks, and merchandise, and adding commerce features to Disney+ (Wall Street Journal)

MK Manoylov / The Block:
MoonPay helps Universal Studios create a “Halloween Horror Nights” NFT scavenger hunt in its Orlando and Hollywood theme parks, minting up to 7M NFTs  —  – MoonPay will use its utility minting service Hypermint to create up to 7 million NFTs for an in-person scavenger hunt at Universal Studios Theme Parks.

Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney’s other units  —  Incoming CEO championed Disney+, but needs to steer streaming business toward profitability without cannibalizing other Disney units

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk:
US Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Durbin, and Tina Smith ask Fidelity to reconsider its upcoming Bitcoin 401(k) offerings announced in April 2022  —  The asset management giant said in April it would offer retail investors the option to put bitcoin in their 401(k) accounts at some point this year.

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in its Q4, above Netflix’s 223.1M in its Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M  —  Disney reported results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In the coming weeks, a new Gmail feature will show live package tracking updates for order confirmation emails as a label under the sender’s name in the inbox  —  Google announced today a small but useful update to Gmail that will allow users to soon be able to track their upcoming package deliveries directly from their inbox.

Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Adobe’s Figma retention package may be the biggest since Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014, exceeding deal packages from Auth0, LinkedIn, Mobileye, and Slack  —  Figma’s cofounder and some employees are set to make billions more in a historic retention package following its acquisition by the software giant.