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We will discuss. First, a check on your top headlines. Alibaba is paying one . 4 million for a majority stake in the Chinese Media group. Access to china vision film and Television Shows as they try to diversify their offerings and compete with other technology giants. Alibaba is considering an ipo. They said just last week that the company has decided on a time frame. Music streaming see streaming service, beat music, has raised 50 million in its second round of funding from investors. , will followed by dr. Dre use the money to challenge spotify and other streaming services. The asian military says that the malaysian flight that went milesg was last detected west of course of its flight path, which means that it flew for roughly one hour with its transponder and tracking system turned off. The airplane was carrying an ibm ofcutive and 20 employees austin; dr. Dr. Semi conductor. I think that this is a huge deal. He really believes he is going to convince washington to let this go thr
Get out of jersey . But first, our top tech headlines. An outage hitting twitter. It is the longest since twitter went public. The outage was caused with a fan to its services. It rolled back the change. Salesforce will put 18 acres of land for sale in the San Francisco mission bay area. Salesforce bought the land back in 2010 four 200 78 million with the intention of building a new headquarters there. Instead, salesforce has rented more than 1. 3 million square feet in downtown San Francisco. Tv sweeney will leave ompany next january. She says she is leaving to pursue a new career in tv directing. Aother big story today Bank President in d. C. Making his case for a sprintmobile merger. I believe this is a big deal. But at t and tmobile were able to merge is suggested that tmobile will not be able to be gobbled up by someone bigger. He is not summoned to be deterred. And is not pulling any punches. Take a listen. American consumers use less data traffic, but pay more. Pay more. Is that
Because, as Susan Crawford explains, our government has allowed a few giant conglomerates to rig the rules, raise prices, and stifle competition. Just Like Standard Oil in the first gilded age a century ago. In those days, it was muckrakers like ida tarbell and Lincoln Steffens rattling the cages and calling for fair play. Today its independent thinkers like Susan Crawford. The big Telecom Industry wishes she would go away, but shes got a lot of people on her side. In fact, if you go to the white house citizens petition site, youll see how fans of captive audience are calling on the president to name Susan Crawford as the next chair of the federal communications commission. Prospect magazine named her one of the top ten brains of the digital future, and Susan Crawford served for a time as a special assistant to president obama for science, technology and innovation. Right now she teaches Communications Law at the Benjamin Cardozo school of law here in new york city and is a fellow at t
Because, as Susan Crawford explains, our government has allowed a few giant conglomerates to rig the rules, raise prices, and stifle competition. Just Like Standard Oil in the first gilded age a century ago. In those days, it was muckrakers like ida tarbell and Lincoln Steffens rattling the cages and calling for fair play. Today its independent thinkers like Susan Crawford. The big Telecom Industry wishes she would go away, but shes got a lot of people on her side. In fact, if you go to the white house citizens petition site, youll see how fans of captive audience are calling on the president to name Susan Crawford as the next chair of the federal communications commission. Prospect magazine named her one of the top ten brains of the digital future, and Susan Crawford served for a time as a special assistant to president obama for science, technology and innovation. Right now she teaches Communications Law at the Benjamin Cardozo school of law here in new york city and is a fellow at t