Business

Foxconn cuts 60,000 factory jobs and replaces them with robots

By Nick Statt 60

How Genius annotations undermined web security

By Vijith Assar 9

Dinner is Shipped

By Kaitlyn Tiffany 119

Netflix and Amazon face quotas for European movies and TV shows

Amar Toor May 25, 2016 06:10 am15 hours ago

The European Commission today announced a new proposal that will require streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to devote at least 20 percent of their libraries to European content, as part of an...

EU proposal aims to promote cultural diversity

Why Facebook will never resolve its trust issues with conservatives

Casey Newton May 20, 2016 03:03 pm05.20.2016 57

When Facebook hosted a group of leading conservatives to its campus this week, it pledged to open a new dialogue about trust. "I know many conservatives don’t trust that our platform surfaces content...

Algorithm and blues

Verizon admits it 'overhyped' Go90

Jacob Kastrenakes May 24, 2016 06:37 pm05.24.2016 16

Verizon, in a rare moment of honest self-reflection, acknowledged today that its Go90 streaming service "did get a little bit overhyped." According to FierceCable, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam made the...

"Our expectations are realistic." Lowell McAdam, Verizon CEO

Apple just revealed the future of its retail stores

Nick Statt May 19, 2016 04:02 pm05.19.2016 160

In downtown San Francisco, situated across the street from the city's iconic Union Square Park, Apple's newest vision for retail is close to being realized. The new store, which opens this Saturday,...

With an outdoor plaza and literal trees inside

Google and Facebook still dominate tracking on the web

By Russell Brandom 5

Charter officially owns Time Warner Cable, creating the US's second largest cable provider

By Jacob Kastrenakes 13

Apple announces app development accelerator in Bangalore, India

Sam Byford May 18, 2016 01:06 am05.18.2016 11

After a visit to China earlier in the week, Apple CEO Tim Cook's next stop is India, an increasingly important market for the company. Apple has just announced a iOS design and development accelerator to...

Set to open early 2017

New rules allow anyone to invest up to $2,000 a year in startups

Ben Popper May 16, 2016 03:44 pm05.16.2016 6

Way back in 2012, Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act into law. Part of the legislation was aimed at making it easier for average people to invest in startups, potentially reaping the rewards on the next...

Who wants to be a VC?

Trump: Bezos and Amazon have 'a huge antitrust problem'

Vlad Savov May 13, 2016 04:02 am05.13.2016 56

Donald Trump, widely known for playing a successful businessman on TV, has some pointed business advice for Amazon: beware the regulator. Now the presumptive nominee to become the Republican party's...

Trump beef

How Genius annotations undermined web security

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Charter gets final approval to buy Time Warner Cable

Adi Robertson May 12, 2016 02:54 pm05.12.2016 5

Charter Communications has gotten the last stamp of approval it needs to acquire Time Warner Cable, creating the nation's second-largest cable provider. Bloomberg reported this afternoon that the...

Deal expected to close next week

A long talk with Facebook about its role in journalism

Casey Newton May 12, 2016 01:00 pm05.12.2016

A year ago today, Facebook introduced Instant Articles — a quick-loading news format, hosted on Facebook’s own servers, that opens inside the company’s flagship app up to 10 times faster than the mobile...

With its eyes on VR and indoor mapping, Google will expand Project Tango next week

Ben Popper May 12, 2016 12:07 pm05.12.2016

Project Tango is one of Google's stranger lines of research. At its core, the technology uses cameras to map the space around you in detailed 3D. It uses that data to create indoor maps, layering guided...

It takes I/O to Tango

Western Digital officially closes SanDisk acquisition

James Vincent May 12, 2016 08:32 am05.12.2016 4

Western Digital has now officially purchased flash memory manufacturer SanDisk after regulator approval was passed earlier this week. The agreement between the two storage companies was originally a...

memory overload

Huawei sees ample business opportunity in our dystopian future

Vlad Savov May 11, 2016 09:02 am05.11.2016 3

Kevin Ho, president of Huawei's handset business, is clearly a man of fine judgment, having recently started following me on Twitter. He also appears to be a part-time futurist, as evidenced by his...

Turning cyborg immortality and robot apocalypse prevention into big business
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