Bruce Houghton at hypebot: Access Industries has taken control of global music stream Deezer. The move advances the goal of the conglomerate, which also owns Warner Music Group and has made major investments in Songkick ($25M), Shazam ($9M) and in … [Continue reading]
“Reading and the Demand for Books”
Joshua Gans at Digitopoly: If eBooks are seen as competing with physical books, then you are going to worry about the price of eBooks and want them to be priced higher so as to keep up demand for physical books. But if they are not competing, then … [Continue reading]
“Warner Bros. Issuing Takedowns For Its Own Site Is No Laughing Matter”
Mike Masnick at Techdirt: But here’s why this isn’t really a laughing matter: many of the legacy industry players, including Warner Bros. and the MPAA who represent WB, have been pushing very heavily for a revamp of the DMCA that would include a … [Continue reading]
“Apple’s EU Tax Problem, How Apple Pays Taxes…Eventually, Everyone is a Loser”
Ben Thompson at Stratechery: It was a little over one year ago that Tim Cook made what I called an “unfair and unrealistic privacy speech” where he claimed that “morality demands” an approach to privacy that basically delegitimized Google and … [Continue reading]
“Inside the unprofitable world of (Lenovo’s) Android tablets”
Charles Arthur at The Overspill: In his meta-analysis of the Android-iOS landscape, Benedict Evans estimated that there are 150m–200m Google Android tablets in use, and perhaps another 200m “naked Android” (no Google services) in China. For … [Continue reading]
“Doubling battery power of consumer electronics”
MIT News: In October 2015, SolidEnergy demonstrated the first-ever working prototype of a rechargeable lithium metal smartphone battery with double energy density, which earned them more than $12 million from investors. At half the size of the … [Continue reading]
“Midea’s masterplan to become China’s robot powerhouse”
Frank Tobe at The Robot Report: Chinese consumer manufacturer Midea, after having spent over $4 billion to acquire 94% of German robot maker Kuka, is planning to spend an additional $1.5 billion to turn itself into China’s preeminent robot … [Continue reading]
On-Site Comments Are Overrated
Elizabeth Jensen for NPR on why NPR.org is disabling comments: In July, NPR.org recorded nearly 33 million unique users, and 491,000 comments. But those comments came from just 19,400 commenters, Montgomery said. That’s 0.06 percent of users who … [Continue reading]
“The Worry Piece”
Jenny Davis at Cyborgology: This round of interviews is bearing out a relationship to technology that is decidedly settled. New platforms emerge, but this too is ordinary. A frequently changing technological landscape is expected and does not … [Continue reading]
“Why can’t we see that we’re living in a golden age?”
Johan Norberg at The Spectator: If you think that there has never been a better time to be alive — that humanity has never been safer, healthier, more prosperous or less unequal — then you’re in the minority. But that is what the evidence … [Continue reading]
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