Everything old is new again. Someone leaves a prototype in a bar, prototype makes its way into some blogger’s hands, chaos ensues. It’s hard to imagine another device coming along soon that’s shrouded in the same layer of security as the iPhone 4. Both gadgets and tech journalism have evolved since those halcyon days, but nothing like a high-profile leak to get the blood pumping in these old typing fingers. Companies’ protect-the-IP-at-all-cost approach has shifted, too, over… Source link
Read More »Why Big Pharma’s main argument about drug prices doesn’t hold up, according to Rep. Katie Porter
The pharmaceutical industry has drawn strong criticism over the past decade for driving up the prices of prescription drugs. Although Big Pharma executives and supporters argue that these price hikes are necessary in order to sustain research and development (R&D), i.e. innovation to help the development of new medications, not everyone agrees with that rationalization. According to Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), the money from increased pricing isn’t being used for the right reasons. “The facts… Source link
Read More »Bears WR Byron Pringle arrested for reckless driving
Chicago Bears wide receiver Byron Pringle was arrested on Saturday after Florida Highway Patrol allegedly found him doing donuts in his car on a state road with a small child in the backseat. Pringle, 28, was spotted after an officer saw a cloud of smoke and smelled burning rubber on a road about 30 miles from Tampa. “I could smell the distinct smell of burnt rubber as I proceeded to turn around in the same median break,” Bloom wrote. “I observed a series of tire marks on the roadway… Source link
Read More »Musk Nears $43 Billion Deal for Twitter as Soon as Monday
(Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. is in the final stretch of negotiations about a $43 billion sale to Elon Musk that could rank as one of the biggest-ever leveraged buyouts of a listed company, people with knowledge of the matter said, placing an influential blogging platform under control of the world’s richest person. Most Read from Bloomberg An agreement would cap a monthslong saga that saw Musk amass a stake of about 9%, launch a fusillade of criticism at Twitter’s management, turn down a… Source link
Read More »Trump held in contempt of court for failing to turn over documents to N.Y. AG Letitia James
A New York judge held former President Donald Trump in contempt of court Monday because of the Trump Organization’s refusal to turn over documents to New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an ongoing investigation into whether it fraudulently reported the value of real estate holdings in financial statements. State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump must pay a fine of $10,000 per day until he complies with a subpoena for business records related to the… Source link
Read More »Former Dallas Cowboys QB fumbles away celebrity division title in playoff
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo had a spotty playoff record behind center – 2-4 lifetime – and it didn’t get any better Sunday on the golf course. Playing in the celebrity division of the ClubCorp Classic, a PGA Tour Champions event in Irving, Texas, Romo, 42, held the lead until he hit into the water at the par-5 18th hole at Las Colinas Country Club and made bogey, while former tennis pro Mardy Fish responded with a clutch birdie. That forced a tie with 106 points in the… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud’s new content delivery network opens up the tech that keeps YouTube running
Companies like Netflix, Disney, and HBO do battle over media streaming of movies and TV shows, but all of their services combined pale in comparison to YouTube, which says it delivers over a billion hours of video streams every single day. Now, Google Cloud is announcing general availability of its Media CDN, a network for media companies to use for their own streaming experiences. Competitors like Microsoft Azure, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Cloudflare are already in the market, but… Source link
Read More »Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter may unleash other activist billionaires: experts
If you have the paper, flaunt it like Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. That could be what other billionaires are about to do as they seek to drive headline-grabbing change at well-known public companies as Musk did with Twitter. “It’s the beginning of a wave,” Lawrence Elbaum, co-head of Vinson & Elkins’ Shareholder Activism practice, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It’s not the first time this has happened. There’s lots of billionaires who have bid for companies in the past. There’s… Source link
Read More »Google donates the Istio service mesh to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation – TechCrunch
This has been a long time coming: Google today announced that it is submitting its Istio service mesh project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Google’s Kubernetes has long been the flagship project for the CNCF and the company recently also brought Knative, a project that aims to make it easier to build and deploy serverless applications on top of Kubernetes, to the CNCF as well. It’s maybe no surprise then that Istio,… Source link
Read More »‘Copycatting TikTok is a big trend,’ analyst says after Snap earnings
TikTok’s massive popularity is shaping trends among social media companies, including Snap (SNAP), which reported earnings last week, said Ygal Arounian, an analyst at Wedbush (video above). “Snap and the others are moving kind of further deeper into this creator economy world, which TikTok has done a great job capturing,” he said. “So there’s a lot of focus on creating platforms that are similar to TikTok. Copycatting TikTok is a big trend right now.” Snap’s earnings were mixed…. Source link
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