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Wesfarmers' $6bn profits off Aussie illness | Google loses its advantage | Assassin's Creed going private? · What the Flux

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  Speaker 1: This is what the flux I'm Brett and I'm Justin
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  Speaker 1: and it's Wednesday, the night of October.
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  Speaker 2: Dozy Boy.
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  Speaker 3: With the AFL and NRL Grand Finals featuring interstate teams
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  Speaker 3: over the last couple of weeks, there is no surprise
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  Speaker 3: that hotels were booming. Hotel occupancy during the NRL Grand
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  Speaker 3: Final in Sydney that was eighty five percent and the
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  Speaker 3: AFL Grand Final in Melbourne was at eighty two percent,
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  Speaker 3: but still doesn't beat Taylor Swift Concerts, where occupancy was
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  Speaker 3: ninety two percent if you don't mind so. In summary,
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  Speaker 3: swifty has beaten basically the biggest codes in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Not even Katie Perry could be swifty Bucks out. Did
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  Speaker 1: out your credit score and seeing if it's gone up
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  Speaker 3: Three truly riveting stories today, Dozzy Boy, Let's do it
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  Speaker 3: for our first West Farmers is expected to generate around
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  Speaker 3: six billion dollars in revenue this year via its health division.
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  Speaker 2: Because Australians are apparently getting sicker.
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  Speaker 1: That's coop cough sick, not fully sick. It's a telling more.
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  Speaker 3: We all know West Farmers, the giant Wa based conglomerate
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  Speaker 3: that owns a heap of the biggest companies in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: We'd be talking Bunnings, We'd be talking Kmart, we'd be talking.
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  Speaker 2: Target now Juzzy Boy.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two, West Farmers saw a massive gap
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  Speaker 3: in the Aussie health space and they decided to fill
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  Speaker 3: that gap.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Since then they've been on what you'd call a
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  Speaker 1: buying spree, buy UPGPS, dental clinics, radiology clinics.
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  Speaker 3: It acquired Australian Pharmaceutical Industries for one billion bucks in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, which owns Priceline.
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  Speaker 1: It acquired telehealth company Instance Scripts.
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  Speaker 2: Also Clear Skincare and Silk Laser Clinics and.
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  Speaker 1: Bman Across the West Farmers' Health division. It generated more
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  Speaker 1: than five point six billion dollars in twenty twenty three's
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  Speaker 1: financial year.
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  Speaker 3: But now Jazzy Boy, it's expected to top over six
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  Speaker 3: billion dollars in the upcoming financial year and.
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  Speaker 1: Talk me through the reason for this growth be man.
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  Speaker 3: Well, West Farmers has run the numbers on about three
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  Speaker 3: million health checks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they found that the number of ousi's getting
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  Speaker 2: sick is supposedly increasing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the data shows arise in obesity, diabetes and heart
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  Speaker 1: disease risk.
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  Speaker 2: Bad news for our health, but good news for West Farmers.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the key learning here?
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  Speaker 3: Would you collect a treasure trove of data you can
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  Speaker 3: use it to fine tune your offerings down to the
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  Speaker 3: very last detail.
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  Speaker 1: West Farmers has gathered a massive amount of health data
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  Speaker 1: for over three million digital health checks across Australia and.
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  Speaker 3: Johnsie Boite data is now one of the most valuable
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  Speaker 3: assets for businesses. So you could say West Farmers is
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  Speaker 3: sitting on a gold mine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We've already seen West Farmers do this through its
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  Speaker 1: part steak In Cole's Flyby program, and now we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: them do it across healthcare as well. For example, across
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  Speaker 1: all their businesses, they now know that one in two
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  Speaker 1: Australians had an elevated risk of heart disease.
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  Speaker 2: And twenty nine percent had high blood.
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  Speaker 1: Pressure twenty six percent were obese.
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  Speaker 3: And by using data analytics, they can predict which medications
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  Speaker 3: may be in demand.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe where health trends are heading.
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  Speaker 3: Or even they could spot new opportunities for expanding services
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  Speaker 3: and the.
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  Speaker 1: Result is even healthier profits for our set.
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  Speaker 3: Second story, Google will be required to open its app
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  Speaker 3: store to rivals so its users can have more choice
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  Speaker 3: when downloading and using apps.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is setting a scary new precedent for Google and
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  Speaker 1: possibly Apple too, be man, so tell me more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, dosyboy.
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  Speaker 3: We all know Google, the tech behemoth behind Google Search
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  Speaker 3: and Maps and Google Mail and Google Drive and Google everything.
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  Speaker 1: And it also happens to be the owner of Android
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  Speaker 1: i e. Apple iOS is arch rival yep.
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  Speaker 3: Android's the operating system on pretty much every single smartphone
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  Speaker 3: device other than Apple.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking Samsung, Murderoller, HGC, Huawei LG, and a squillion more.
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  Speaker 3: And as you know, if you want to download an
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  Speaker 3: app like the Flux app from Google or Apple, you've
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  Speaker 3: got to do it through their app store.
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  Speaker 1: The b Man, a US judge, has just ordered Google
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  Speaker 1: to open up Google Play to its rivals.
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  Speaker 3: That means Google can't pay developers to launch their apps.
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  Speaker 3: Exclusively on Google Play.
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  Speaker 1: It also can't force developers to use Google Play's billing system.
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  Speaker 3: And Google also can't block other app stores from being
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  Speaker 3: downloaded from within.
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  Speaker 2: Google's app store.
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  Speaker 1: Very meta review.
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  Speaker 2: Aha, So you you.
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  Speaker 3: Better believe Dussie Boy that Google was shocked and appalled
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  Speaker 3: and their shares dropped more than two percent following this news.
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  Speaker 1: And Apple shares also dropped two percent on this news.
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  Speaker 3: And it's all because their walled garden could be about
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  Speaker 3: to fall.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the key learning here?
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  Speaker 3: A walled garden is a closed platform or ecosystem where
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  Speaker 3: the owner of the platform has total control.
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  Speaker 1: And be man. What we're seeing here is that the
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  Speaker 1: warmed garden is potentially falling down to give consumers more choice.
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  Speaker 3: We know that Apple and Google both created a pretty
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  Speaker 3: tight ecosystem across their products. For some context, Josey Boy,
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  Speaker 3: Apple and Google, they both charge anywhere between fifteen to
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  Speaker 3: thirty percent commission for purchases in these apps.
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  Speaker 1: But this court decision gives developers a way to circumvent
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  Speaker 1: these fees.
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  Speaker 3: And Josie Boy, given that Google's play Store generated eleven
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  Speaker 3: point two billion US dollars in gross revenue, and that
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  Speaker 3: was just for last quarter. Wow, this is a major
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  Speaker 3: concern for their investors.
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  Speaker 1: For our third and final story, the creator of popular
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  Speaker 1: video game Assassin's Creed is considering going private after it
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  Speaker 1: lost close to half its market value.
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  Speaker 3: This year not the best year for the makers of
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  Speaker 3: Assassin's Creed. Juzzy boy, I'm very keen to know what
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  Speaker 3: the story is here, your little gamer.
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  Speaker 1: So be man. The name of the company is Ubisoft Entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: It's the French video game publisher that started in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Josey boy, you may not have heard of Ubisoft,
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  Speaker 3: but it's best known for games like Assassin's Creed, Just Dance,
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  Speaker 3: Prince of Persia, and your favorite watch Dogs.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard of it, but man. Ubisoft is allegedly considering
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  Speaker 1: going private and delisting from Eurodex, which is the largest
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  Speaker 1: stock exchange in Europe.
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  Speaker 2: YEP.
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  Speaker 3: Ubisoft's founding family and also Chinese tech company ten Cent
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  Speaker 3: are thinking about buying the company out and taking it private.
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  Speaker 1: And be man. Ubisoft's been struggling big time, with a
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  Speaker 1: share price down forty percent just this year. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Ubisoft's found it challenging to come out of a pandemic rut.
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  Speaker 1: And it's had to delay the release of new games
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  Speaker 1: and also cancel some games as well.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not canceling Watchdogs or Just Dance?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Juzzy Boy?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not and b Man. Just last week, Ubisoft
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  Speaker 1: cut it's twenty twenty five financial year Ernie's guidance to
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  Speaker 1: just under two billion euros, down from two point three
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  Speaker 1: billion made in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not surprising that shareholders were putting pressure on
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  Speaker 3: UBISAFT to.
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  Speaker 2: Bring about some change. So what is the key learning here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, when profits sink, shareholders often want changes at the
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  Speaker 3: helm you.
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  Speaker 1: See, be Man. When shareholders invest their money into a business,
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  Speaker 1: they also hold those businesses accountable for how they operate,
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  Speaker 1: and when a company isn't performing up to scratch, shareholders
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  Speaker 1: often will push to make some changes. In Ubisoft's case,
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  Speaker 1: minority shareholders have been pushing for them to go private
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  Speaker 1: or at least for a strategic investor to come in.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, they're not happy with how the company's been managed.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes shareholder pressure can be enough to bring about
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  Speaker 1: major changes in a business. YEP, Flux am every single month.
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