T-Mobile is getting into the the television business with the acquisition of Layer3 TV, a TV tech company. The new service will launch next year, according to T-Mobile CEO John Legere. The wireless carrier is billing the service as a breakthrough for people who “love their TV, but … hate their TV providers.” The service …
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T-Mobile is getting into the the television business with the acquisition of Layer3 TV, a TV tech company. The new service will launch next year, according to T-Mobile CEO John Legere. The wireless carrier is billing the service as a breakthrough for people who “love their TV, but … hate their TV providers.” The service will combine streaming TV and …
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YouTube says it’s trying to make the video site safer for kids. After recent criticism that YouTube is not doing enough to crack down on disturbing and exploitative videos aimed at children, the Google-owned video service on Wednesday announced a five-point plan to “toughen” its approach on family-friendly content. The new guidelines are: Tougher application of community guidelines and faster …
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Disney’s future streaming service will challenge Netflix, the reigning streaming champ, with lower prices, CEO Bob Iger said in an earnings call earlier this week. In August, Disney announced its plans to pull movies like “Moana” from Netflix and instead stream them along with future films like the sequel to “Frozen” on its own service, which will launch in 2019. …
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The patent licensing battle between Apple and Qualcomm keeps getting more heated. Wednesday, Qualcomm filed another lawsuit against Apple, this time alleging Apple shared confidential Qualcomm software information with its chip rival, Intel. The breach of contract lawsuit said Qualcomm gave Apple “unprecedented access to Qualcomm’s very valuable and highly confidential software, including source code.” In return, Apple agreed to …
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The marriage between T-Mobile and Sprint may be over before it even begins. Sprint’s parent company, Japanese carrier SoftBank, plans to break off merger talks, according to a new report from Nikkei. The publication cited a dispute over ownership of the combined entity. SoftBank may approach T-Mobile’s parent company, German carrier Deutsche Telekom, as early as Tuesday to end the …
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For today’s podcast, we go through some of the tools Russian trolls have used to draw lots of attention to their posts online, as well as what Facebook and Twitter are doing to stop them. Plus, we talk about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos becoming the world’s richest person thanks to his company’s strong third-quarter results, and Nintendo enjoying solid earnings, …
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Samsung may be known for its phones, but when it comes to its earnings, it’s all about the chips. The South Korean technology giant on Monday reported its biggest operating profit ever as it benefited from strong demand for its memory chips and other components. Samsung not only uses processors it manufactures in its own devices but also sells them …
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Three months ago, Jeff Bezos was for a brief moment the world’s richest person. This time, Amazon’s CEO and founder may get to keep that title for a little longer. On Friday, the online retailing giant’s stock shot up a whopping 13 percent, a huge amount for such a large company, after Amazon easily outpaced its third-quarter earnings expectations. That surge …
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Apple is liking the early reaction to the iPhone X. “We can see from the initial response, customer demand is off the charts,” said an Apple spokeswoman. Dutiful Apple fans were able to preorder the iPhone X starting at 12:01 a.m. PT this morning, and within 10 minutes, the shipping dates began to slip past the Nov. 3 launch date. …
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