Amazon & NY Breaks-up on V-Day
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| Amazon & NY Breaks-up on V-Day | |
| Number | 3469 |
| Broadcast Date | FEBRUARY 14, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 31:30 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Justin Robert Young |
Apple’s news subscription service wants newspapers to fork over half their revenue. Extortion or shrewd business sense?
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Quick Hits
- Apple said Thursday it will resume selling older iPhone models in its German stores. iPhone 7 and 8 models were banned last year due to a patent infringement ruling in favor of Qualcomm. In order to comply with the ruling, Apple said it had “no choice” but to stop using modem chips from Intel in iPhones headed to Germany. Those iPhones will contain Qualcomm's modem chips instead.
- Canalys reports that 32 percent of smartphone shipments in Europe in 2018 were from Chinese manufacturers, mostly from Huawei. Samsung finished the year on top in Europe with 28.7% of the market, down 1% over 2017. Apple was second with 26% down 5.1%. Huawei stormed into third with 23.6% up 55.7%. Xiaomi rose 62% to take fourth at 6 percent of the market and HMD Global, AKA the seller of the Nokia brand had 2.4% for fifth.
- Sources tell Nikkei that Google plans to release a lower-priced smartphone this year, and moving quickly to take advantage of disappointing iPhone sales. Google's new phone is said to be priced lower than Apple's iPhone XR, which starts at $749. Google's latest Pixel line, released last October, started at $799. Other products planned for this year include smart speakers, wearables and web cameras, sources say, plus a new premium phone in its Pixel lineup.
Top Stories
- Amazon has canceled plans to build a corporate campus in New York City. The campus was set for Long Island City, Queens and Amazon claimed it would create more than 25,000 jobs in the area, and sought nearly $3 billion in state and city incentives. Several local lawmakers criticized providing subsidies and Amazon said because of that opposition it cannot create "the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project." Amazon does not intend to re-open the HQ2 search but will proceed with its expansions in Northern Virginia and Nashville.
- Wired's Tom Simonite reports that OpenAI, founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman in order to give away new AI discoveries, has developed something they don't feel safe giving away. The system was designed to learn patterns of language and scores better on reading comprehension tests than any other automated system. But it's the ability of the system to generate text that feels real that has OpenAI concerned. A research paper was published but not the full model or training data. Google has also put constraints on sharing AI research over fear of misuse.
- EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
- ARTICLE 13 DISASTER FOR MUSIC BIZ, JOY FOR YOUTUBE, AS LABELS CALL FOR EU COPYRIGHT BILL TO BE CANCELLED
- The trilogue negotiations over the EU Copyright Directive have ended with an agreement that keeps Article 11, the snippets rule, and Article 13 the upload filter rule. The final version of Article 11 will require any site of any size that reproduces more than “single words or very short extracts” of news stories to get a license. Article 13 requires commercial sites and apps to make best efforts to buy licenses for anything that users might upload and prevent unlicensed works from being uploaded. Sites become liable for infringements that are a result of insufficient efforts. The final text now returns to the EU Council and EU Parliament for approval, starting Monday, February 18, with a vote by the EU Parliament's Legal Affairs committee with a plenary vote expected in late March or early April, a few weeks before EU parliamentary elections. -- Oh and btw, India is seeking public comment on proposed rules that among other things would require internet companies to screen and prevent publication of “unlawful information or content.”
- JP Morgan has created its own blockchain-based crypto-currency to help settle payments between clients of its wholesale payments business. JP Morgan hopes it can reduce risk and enable instant transfers. JPM Coins will each be worth one dollar and will only be available to the company's retail customers to be used with each other on JP Morgan's Quorum blockchain. Customers must be approved by regulators to use Quorum in order to avoid money laundering. All blockchain nodes on Quorum are operated by JP Morgan. In a related move, Ant Financial - operators of AliPay-- is buying 15-year old payment processor WorldFirst which is based in London. WorldFirst lets businesses and people move money between countries at prices lower than regular banks.
- Preorders are getting ridiculous. Samsung has a page up where you can preorder "the next Galaxy device" that you "know is coming." Let's assume it's the Galaxy S10 expected to be announced February 20. You have until that day to reserve the right to place an order. After the announcement, you'll have 72 hours after the device goes on sale to place an order and get priority. Delivery is expected by March 8 while supplies last.
Discussion
Thing of the Day
- Chris Christensen is back with some tips for those of us who don't always want to work in one place.
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| Preceded by: "Called Off Duty" |
Amazon & NY Breaks-up on V-Day |
Followed by: "Dancing With Copyrights" |