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AOC Joins Forces With Red Bull – AOC Now A Backer Of 2019 Red Bull Player One Events

AOC today announces a long-term partnership with Red Bull. As of now, teams and gamers competing at prominent esports events powered by Red Bull will be provided with AOC’s cutting-edge gaming monitors. In addition, ten Red Bull Player One events taking place across Europe will be sponsored by AOC over the entire course of 2019. […]

Disney Takes Control Of Hulu – Will Buy The Streaming Service From Comcast At Later Date

Today Comcast has agreed to sell its ownership stake in Hulu to Disney. While sale won’t happen for at least another five years, Disney will take full operational control of Hulu going forward now. Hulu was at one time a joint venture between Disney, 21st Century Fox (Which both Comcast and Disney tried to acquire) […]

Bitcoin Has Hit a 10 Month High – Over $8000 US

Bitcoin has surged to more than $8,000 late today, its highest level since July last year. There isn’t consensus on the street on to why bitcoin hit a 10-month high on Monday. Bitcoin was last up nearly 17% at $8,131 on the Bitstamp exchange, the largest daily percentage jump since early April. It hit a […]

US Supreme Court Rules Apple App Store Case Can Move Forward

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that an antitrust lawsuit can proceed against Apple for the way it runs its App Store. Today’s ruling only affirms that the consumers bringing the suit have the right to do so; it does not touch on the merits of the case. The case will now proceed in lower […]

Alphabet’s 2019 Q1 Results Are In

Alphabet has announced Q1 2019 earnings to start the new year with revenue of $36.33 billion. It notably takes into account the $1.7 billion fine levied by the European Commission over Google AdSense violations. These numbers range from January to March, and did not meet analysis expectations with the stock down over 4% in after-hours […]

Google Removes Do Global Games From Play Store Over Fake Ad Clicks

DO Global has just had 46 of their apps taken off the Google Play Store, after it was found that they used code which triggered fake clicks on advertisements. In response, DO Global has published a statement apologizing for their tactics: In the past week, we have noticed a series of reports about our apps […]

Junk Bond Offering Raises $2.2 Billion For Netflix

Netflix just went deeper into hock: The company announced the pricing of unsecured bonds in a transaction raising around $2.2 billion, giving it more cash to invest in content, real estate and infrastructure. The streamer had said Tuesday that it planned to raise $2 billion through a new debt offering, bringing its long-term debt to […]

Twitter Blocks French Government Voter Campaign Due To Fake News Law

France since late last year requires online political campaigns to declare who paid for them, and how much was spent. It requires online platforms to provide “fair, clear and transparent” information about the person or company, and the amount paid, in an open and accessible database format. But Twitter has rejected a government voter registration […]

GoFundMe Plans To Remove Anti-Vax Campaigns

GoFundMe is removing anti-vaxxers from its platform, according to an exclusive report by The Daily Beast. The firm is currently conducting a review for anti-vax campaigns on the platform and will ban any fundraisers found to be promoting bad science. GoFundMe prohibits campaigns that make dubious health claims in its terms of service, saying users must […]

Ford Hires Amazon Veteran As New CFO

Ford’s  new chief financial officer is an Amazon finance veteran who led the  Whole Foods acquisition. Tim Stone, 52, starts with Ford on April 15, just in time for the shareholder annual meeting on May 9. Stone, who worked at Amazon from 1998-2018, left as vice president of finance. Previously, he was CFO of Amazon […]

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