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Now YouTube is set to pay millions in royalties to songwriters, in its latest salvo in a campaign to make amends with the music industry. The platform will pay music publishers “millions of dollars” for unpaid royalties from songs used in YouTube videos that have been difficult to identify, the company said. The agreement follows…
President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate as labor secretary Andrew Puzder, chief executive of the company that owns the Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. burger chains and who opposes raising the minimum wage, according to people familiar with the plans. Puzder, who served as an economic adviser to Trump during the campaign and is a major…
Alphabet’s CFO Ruth Porat wants to bring focus to Mountain View. Can the moonshot factory adapt? Photographer: Justin Fantl for Bloomberg Businessweek Earlier this year, Astro Teller, a ponytailed scientist and science fiction writer, gave a TED Talk. It was a first for Teller, but not for X, or Google X, as the research lab…
Bloomberg/Getty FOUR MORE YEARS Donald Trump’s Carrier Victory Speech Shows We’re Stuck With the Crazy Candidate What was supposed to be a jobs speech turned into another torrent of self-congratulations, diversions, and shtick. Donald Trump won the presidency, but judging by his Thursday appearance to announce a deal with Carrier, the heating and air conditioning…
President-elect Donald Trump promised to drive down the cost of medicines, defying investors who saw a boon in his election last month and injecting himself again into a contentious economic debate. “I’m going to bring down drug prices,” Trump said, according to a transcript of an interview posted on Time magazine’s website as it named him its…
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that he would separate himself from his businesses before he enters the White House. More details about the arrangement will be announced in mid-December, but it sounds as if he plans to step away from only the management of his business, which presumably will be turned over to his children,…
Anyone familiar with Team Pebble knows full well: keeping quiet isn’t our style. We love sharing Pebble’s story with you—whether it’s a new product, fresh feature, or simply staying in touch online and in person. Aside from announcing Pebble’s 4.3 software updates, our silence over the past month was deafening and out-of-character—we’re sorry for that….
Adrianne Jeffries Nov—26—2016 10:38PM EST In the movie Rushmore, the teacher Miss Cross asks, “nihilo sanctum estne?” The question is a mistranslation, but it’s supposed to mean is nothing sacred? That’s how I felt reading Jia Tolentino’s article about how a company called Emogi plans to invade our text messages with advertising. Travis Montaque, Emogi’s…
“The ambition of having 10 million digital subscribers is possible for us,” New York Times CEO Mark Thompson said Monday afternoon at the annual UBS Global Media Conference in New York City. While that’s still a long way away — the Times had about 1.6 million digital subscribers as of September, counting its crosswords product…
The rising adoption of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) by advertisers and consumers will deliver transformative creative experiences. Yet as much as creative and production shops will need to change to meet the new artistic and technical demands, media shops will face the more critical questions. At this point, VR and AR technologies…