Tag: media
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Apple partners with ABC on 2020 presidential coverage in the Apple News app
Apple announced today it will collaborate with ABC News on coverage of the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election in its Apple News app. The efforts will kick off with the Democratic primary debate on February 7, 2020, in New Hampshire, and will feature ABC News videos, live streams, plus FiveThirtyEight polling data, infographics and analysis during key…
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Tesla will deliver in-car YouTube and Netflix video streaming ‘soon’
Tesla is getting ready to “soon” deliver a number of video streaming services that CEO Elon Musk proposed would eventually arrive at the automaker’s cars. Musk shared this (slightly vague) updated timeline on Twitter on the weekend, even after noting previously in June in E3 that Tesla’s infotainment screens would eventually be getting YouTube and…
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Tesla’s in-car touchscreens are getting YouTube support
Tesla has consistently been adding software to the in-car touchscreen infotainment screens — including sometimes things that probably leave a great deal of people scratching their heads. During a unique Q&A today at yearly gaming event E3 in LA, Tesla CEO Elon Musk demonstrated that Tesla’s in-car screen will support YouTube someday soon. This isn’t…
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Stripe and Precursor lead $4.5m seed into media CRM startup Pico
Google and Facebook are increasingly slurping up every ad dollar on the internet. Their dominant position is upending the business versions of conventional and startup media companies alike. The click-driven advertisement model of yore is leaving a graveyard in its wake, as high-flying companies like Mic collapse. Learning in the tide of SaaS startups who…
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How far can a viral tweet get you? Be careful what you wish for
Adam Koszary’s ‘absolute unit’ sheep led to a job at Tesla, but his new boss, Elon Musk, has had less social media success – with one missive landing him in court Twitter is a game with two objectives. The first is to scream your opinions at people who hold an identical set of opinions, in…
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Going beyond its Apple roots, 9to5 sees success in new verticals
In an effort to go beyond Apple news and scoops, a play is being made by 9to5 . 9to5, the network of news sites that rose on the back of its frequent scoops of Apple newshas five verticals ranging from renewable energy. The newest of those brands, Electrek, which launched in 2016, reports on the consumer…
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‘You are good’: New York Times zinged after story on Donald Trump’s billion-dollar loss
As Twitchy reported Tuesday night, The New York Times obtained printouts of President Trump’s 1040s from 1985 to 1994 and found that he’d lost over a billion dollars within the course of the decade. Since nothing was out of order on the tax forms, the Times ran with the angle that lauded businessman Trump had lost…
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Tesla Warns Employees About Leaks…In Leaked E-Mail
The paranoia from inside of Tesla continues. The company is still not happy about the amount of information that is escaping its closed, so it recently wrote another email to its employees threatening, among other things, criminal charges, for leaking information or talking to journalists. The threats, ironically enough, were documented in an email that…
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The Future Is Accelerating – Will Humans Fit In?
From Deepak Chopra, MD and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS The star inventor, thinker, and entrepreneur has joined other voices who fear of a future dominated by supercomputers and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In a widely publicized podcast, Musk announced that Neuralink, a company he cofounded, plans to declare in a couple of months that a brain-machine…
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Friday Wake-Up Call: The SEC goes after Elon Musk, and prosecutors probe media-buying
Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, promotion, media and electronic information. You can find an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Look for”Ad Age” below”Skills” from the Alexa app. What folks are talking Elon Musk’s Twitter habit might be his undoing. Following the Tesla CEO tweeted that…