Apple’s long-rumored streaming TV service failed to materialize due to its brash negotiating tactics, according to The Wall Street Journal. Potential deals between the tech giant and major networks including CBS, Disney and Fox went south because Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of software and services, came across as arrogant during negotiations, the newspaper …
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An online activist group is petitioning to keep Donald Trump out of security briefings after the Republican presidential candidate said he hopes Russian hackers get into rival candidate Hillary Clinton’s email. Credo Action is seeking 75,000 signatures urging national intelligence Director James Clapper to not allow Trump to be privy to classified information after Trump said Wednesday he wishes Russia …
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It could’ve been much worse. Enlarge Image Iowa football player Faith Ekakitie, left, was playing Pokemon Go in a park when he was searched at gunpoint by police looking for a bank robber. Matthew Holst, Getty Images A US college football player wrote in a poignant post on Facebook that he feared for his life after being mistaken by police …
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Now playing: Watch this: Donald Trump outlines his vision for America in RNC speech 2:17 Vowing he’s the only man who can do the job, Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night. The “blue-collar billionaire” has used social media to propel his once-unfathomable campaign. But Trump’s Twitter account, naturally, was radio silent during his more than hour-long speech …
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Four years ago, Facebook and Twitter shared the same small space on Radio Row at the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Both social networks were growing, but not quite mainstream. Not anymore. Social networks — including Snapchat, Instagram, Medium, and YouTube — this week were an inescapable presence that rivaled traditional media at the RNC in Cleveland. Radio Row is …
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Despite years of batting away cyberattacks, Max Everett is still on high alert. The Republican National Committee’s chief information officer has been working 20-hour days, and they seem to be getting longer as the convention‘s main event — Donald Trump’s acceptance of the party’s nomination on Thursday night — approaches. Hacktivist groups, like Anonymous, have already targeted Trump’s campaign. It …
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You flew into Cleveland hoping to catch a glimpse of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Bad news: Roughly 50,000 people are expected to hit the city for the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena. Get in line. The good news: There are plenty of other things to do on the North Coast. Here are five …
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Samantha Osborne is in her element. Just hours before the event begins, the 29-year-old digital director of the Republican National Convention is scanning Google Trends. Her eyes narrow when she notices Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, is being searched more than Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent. Osborne’s 90-person team, 80 of whom are volunteers, can capitalize on this. “You …
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Are you a political junkie hungry for Republican National Convention news? Are you suffering FOMO because you’re not in Cleveland? Are you just craving for gavel-to-gavel action at the Quicken Loans Arena? Well, here’s how you can peep the action from anywhere in the world. If you’ve got a phone, download the official RNC app to see if presumptive GOP …
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Just as Tom Burke hoped, hundreds came from across the country to march in Cleveland. “Racist. Sexist. Anti-gay,” the protesters chanted as the Republican National Convention was getting underway on Monday to nominate a billionaire real estate mogul-turned-reality-TV-star-turned-serious presidential candidate. “Donald Trump go away.” Burke, the co-founder of the Coalition to Stop Trump and March on the RNC, watched as …
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