Alphabet’s Google has expanded its YouTube TV streaming service into 14 new U.S.markets to reach half of American households, with an additional 17 markets to launch in the next few weeks, the company said on Thursday. YouTube is broadening access to live TV streaming as younger viewers increasingly watch shows online and traditional broadcast networks […]
Read moreFacebook is testing a feature in the Facebook News Feed that provides customized links to news on topics of interest to individual users, as the company continues to search for ways to increase the amount of time that people spend using the world’s largest social media network. The offering, called “Featured Topic,” is being tested […]
Read moreTwo lawyers appointed to senior jobs at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have ties to major companies including financial firms Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo that could complicate efforts to regulate them, according to government documents viewed by Reuters. Steven Peikin, the new co-head of enforcement at the SEC, held as much as $9 […]
Read moreApple and Aetna conducted a series of meetings late last week to discuss the next step in their partnership, as reported by CNBC. The primary topic of discussion was Apple’s health-tracking smartwatch — Apple Watch — and whether it could be used to improve health outcomes. Currently, Aetna is gathering feedback from its own employees, […]
Read moreThis year may finally be the year that global investors put Chinese internet companies alongside American giants like Facebook and Amazon. On Thursday, Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, said its profit for the three months that ended in June almost doubled, while its revenue rose more than half. But just as impressive a jump […]
Read moreA lot of corporations have venture capital arms or find other ways to invest in start-ups. But Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has at least three VC arms that we know about, plus a lot of other start-up investment activities. This makes it an unusually influential player in Silicon Valley’s start-up scene. From a […]
Read moreIt took bloodshed in Charlottesville to get tech companies to do what civil rights groups have been calling for for years: take a firmer stand against accounts used to promote hate and violence. In the wake of the deadly clash at a white-nationalist rally last weekend in Virginia, major companies such as Google, Facebook and […]
Read moreCiti’s commodities research team has tempered its outlook for oil prices over the next five years, but it sees room for price shocks if oil supply disruptions increase dramatically or fall off significantly in the coming years. The bank had projected in February that U.S. crude prices would likely trade mostly in a range of […]
Read moreMark Zuckerberg says Facebook is doing the best it can to both be a place where everyone can share their ideas and also feel safe. Right now — with emotions running high days after white extremists violently clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., leaving one woman dead — that’s a painfully delicate task. And it’s […]
Read moreTension in Uber’s upper ranks have already ricocheted to every corner of the company. An early investor has sued ex-CEO Travis Kalanick just as he tussles with the board over the search for his successor. Meanwhile, deep-pocketed suitors are circling for a piece of the $70 billion startup. We know Uber is in advanced talks […]
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