LAST YEAR, when American officials visited Beijing for trade negotiations, they spent more time fighting among themselves than against China. They could not agree on who should lead the talks or what their goal should be. Seeing such amateurism, their Chinese interlocutors figured that they had little to worry about. Many of the same Americans…
PARKLAND, Fla. — The name “Parkland” has become a shorthand for the tragedy that many hoped would mark the beginning of the end of school massacres. But ask the survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in more quiet moments about the awful year since last Feb. 14, and they tell you…
Netflix has come knocking for Breaking Bad. The streaming giant has landed the initial broadcast rights to a feature-film sequel to the hit series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie, which will focus on Jesse Pinkman—the oft-troubled meth-cooker played by Aaron Paul—will air on Netflix before eventually landing at AMC, the network that aired…
Google pays Apple to be the default search engine on the iPhone, a deal worth billions to Cupertino. In 2018, Google may have paid Apple as much as $9.46 billion in what's called "traffic acquisition costs," or TAC, according to Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall, citing Google financial results. The amount Google pays Apple could…
THERE HAS never been such an agglomeration of humanity as Facebook. Some 2.3bn people, 30% of the world’s population, engage with the network each month. Economists reckon it may yield trillions of dollars’ worth of value for its users. But Facebook is also blamed for all sorts of social horrors: from addiction and bullying to…
As Mr. Trump weighed his options, one person familiar with his thinking described him as frustrated by months of Republicans not doing what he hoped to see done at the border. Conservatives saw the deal as a capitulation by the Republican leadership, one that put Mr. Trump in a difficult spot. A few weeks ago,…
Hulu has found its inner Wu. The streaming giant—whose stakeholders include such giants as Comcast and The Walt Disney Company—has announced the cast for its forthcoming drama Wu-Tang: An American Saga. The ten-episode drama series, set in the early ’90s, will trace the history of New York City’s beloved Wu-Tang Clan, one of the most…
Amazon is acquiring the home "mesh" Wi-Fi router company Eero, the companies announced in a press release on Monday. The deal is the latest indication of Amazon's expansive effort to control the electronic "plumbing" of modern homes and lifestyles, adding to a lineup of Amazon products that includes smart speakers and internet-connected doorbell cameras. Amazon…
IT IS a story even a supermarket tabloid could not make up. The world’s richest man, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, has accused David Pecker, who runs the National Enquirer and other tabloids, of trying to blackmail him over intimate photographs of Mr Bezos and his mistress. Mr Pecker is a close friend of President Donald…
Amazon is acquiring home Wi-Fi network startup Eero, the two companies announced on Monday. San Francisco-based Eero was founded in 2014, emerging as one of several popular home mesh network solutions for consumers desperate for total wireless internet coverage in their homes, regardless of the space and layout. The announcement makes sense when you consider…
