This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. In what may be the least surprising tech news development of 2021 so far, Intel announced on Wednesday morning that CEO Bob Swan is leaving and will be replaced by […]
One of the early lessons I learned as a journalist came in 2012 when I was covering the science beat for the Cornell Daily Sun. I was writing up the rare blooming of a Titan Arum, a giant Sumatran plant known as a corpse flower. (The plant smells like death when it blooms—a trait that […]
It’s pretty dead along the strip in Las Vegas right now, though to be fair it’s also about 3 a.m. Pop in anytime via the great WorldCams site and take a peek. Internet video is about as close as any of us are going to get to Vegas this week, even though it’s CES®, the […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. The shock waves from Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol continue to reverberate. And as Danielle explored in yesterday’s newsletter, the crisis is roiling social and online media, where the […]
Yesterday was a dark day for American history as pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol over what they believed to be a stolen election. And, true to form, social media services struggled with how to handle the President’s comments. After angry mobsters broke windows, invaded the Capitol buildings, and in some cases brawled with police, […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf must have been born with a bullseye on his back. During his seven-year tenure, activist hedge fund JANA Partners demanded that he break up the company; […]
Every so often I like to undergo a digital cleanse. Sometimes that means unplugging completely and tramping in the woods, like the weekend I spent camping along Devil’s Path in the Catskills last month. Other times it means taking a break from the notifications to stroll around the neighborhood, usually while listening to an audiobook. […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. 2020 will most certainly not go down in the history books as the year 5G became mainstream. To be fair, the newest, fastest, coolest wireless technology made some strides last […]
Prepared for 2021? Since you monitor the milestones leading to the conclusion of this dreadful year, this ’s This is the previous Data Sheet for 2020, since we aren’t publishing to the following two months. So, I ’ll be recharging through a stirring staycation at Boston with immediate loved ones and our snow-loving puppy Luna: […]
Subscribe to receive it sent directly to your inbox. That old saying that the next time is a charm could employ in antitrust. Since you might have figured from the page count, then this really is really a Texas-sized doozy of blockbuster allegations which Google has monopolized every area of the marketplace for electronic advertisements: […]