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
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, 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
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
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
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?
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
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 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...
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 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
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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