In this articleMTCHBMBLDating apps are creating badges displaying vaccination status and offering vaccinated Americans free premium benefits.TinderThe largest dating apps in the U.S. are banding together in support of Covid-19 vaccines, in the hopes that it'll be a hot vax summer. For the uninitiated, hot vax summer plays on the idea that once single Americans...Read More
In this articleDRHSignage for the AT&T Inc. WarnerMedia HBO Max streaming service is displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 28, 2020.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDuring its annual upfront presentation to advertisers this week, Fox ran a spoof pharmaceutical ad...Read More
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, arrives at U.S. district court in Oakland, California, on Friday, May 21, 2021.Nina Riggio | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesApple CEO Tim Cook faced sharp questioning on Friday from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers about Apple's App Store business model at the end of his testimony in the...Read More
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during the company's annual shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Washington, on Nov. 29, 2017.David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella said Friday that executives should not abuse the power they are given. It was some of the first commentary coming from the top of...Read More
In this articleVZTMUSTSOPA ImagesAs consumers deal with a deluge of streaming video services, an obvious solution is rebundling. We still don't know which company will be the first to offer a batch of subscription products for a discounted price — similar to traditional pay TV.The answer is an important one. The aggregator of content is...Read More
In this articleAAPLSNAPEvan Spiegel, CEO of SNAP Inc.Stephen Desaulniers | CNBCSnap CEO Evan Spiegel on Friday said the social media company is happy to pay Apple's 30% commission rate on in-app transactions."We really feel like Snapchat wouldn't exist without the iPhone and without the amazing platform that Apple has created," Spiegel said on TechCheck. "In...Read More
Netflix has already won the streaming wars, media mogul Barry Diller told CNBC on Friday."Netflix won this several years ago, they're the only ones who have the scale and momentum to keep making these somewhat lunatic investments in programming," Diller, the chairman of IAC, said in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin. "You cannot compete...Read More
Business mogul Barry Diller ripped into Apple on Friday over the fees it charges companies that have applications on the iPhone maker's App Store.In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box," the chairman of IAC and Expedia said his companies, and others like them, are "overcharged in a disgusting manner."For large companies, Apple takes a commission rate of 30% on...Read More
In this articleSNAPEvan Spiegel, CEO of Snap, announces new Spectacles AR glasses that let you overlay digital objects on the real world.Source: SNAP Inc.Snap is acquiring WaveOptics, a company that creates lenses and other parts that are used in augmented reality glasses. The acquisition will give Snap many of the components to create glasses that...Read More
A picture taken on June 9, 2016 shows Amazon warehouse in Paris, part of the new service 'Prime Now'.Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images Amazon is shutting down its standalone Prime Now platforms and directing users who want fast delivery on groceries and other goods to order them through the Amazon app or website,...Read More
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