No car company is making more headlines right now than Tesla. Can the electric vehicle company stay ahead in the battle for electric car dominance?
Mark Rechtin, Executive Editor at Motor Trend, says Tesla's competitors are quickly gaining ground. Motor Trend tested out the Tesla Model 3, Nissan Leaf, and Chevrolet Bolt. Rechtin says that the Leaf and Bolt offer the best options, especially if you don't have $60,000 to spend on a Tesla.
Rechtin also discusses the ongoing problems Tesla is having with its Model 3 production. The company continues to fall behind its original target numbers, while its CEO Elon Musk is tweeting about a possible Tesla pickup truck. Rechtin says Musk should focus more on the Model 3 and less on his dream projects.
Employees of big tech companies hold their leaders to a high moral standard and force them to speak out, says Dana Wollman, executive editor at Endgadget. Microsoft staff recently protested against letting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been criticized for its treatment of migrant children at the border, use the company's Azure cloud technology.
The bidding war for Fox is on. Disney upped its bid for 21st Century Fox on Wednesday morning, offering $71.3 billion in cash and stock for Fox assets. Disney's latest bid tops Comcast's offer from last week, valued at $65 billion.
AT&T and Sprint are following in Verizon's footsteps to change their privacy practices. The wireless carriers vowed to limit their agreements with third parties that allows them to track the location of consumers through their phones.
Peter Naylor, senior vice president of advertising at Hulu, sits down with Cheddar founder and CEO Jon Steinberg at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Naylor talks about the role of advertising on its platform and why advertisers prefer streaming platforms to cable networks.
Dennis Williams, SVP at HBO, discusses how the AT&T-Time Warner merger will impact the company's programming. Plus, why you need to understand the evolution of technology to make amazing content.
The wireless company, fresh off its deal to buy Time Warner, wants to build out an ad platform to rival Facebook and Google.
The cannabis culture company launched an equity crowdsourcing campaign on its own website Tuesday ahead of an official IPO expected this quarter. CEO Adam Levin told Cheddar shares will be offered at $11 apiece.
The founder of the streaming platform, DeShuna Elisa Spencer, created KweliTV after realizing that there was barely any content she could relate to on other channels. KweliTV now has 30,000 paying subscribers and is home to independent films, shows, and documentaries by and for the black community.
IBM on Monday hosted a debate between live humans and an AI-powered robot that managed to hold its own, scanning through research and news reports to formulate arguments against its opponents. It even managed to convince the audience to favor its stance, displaying its nuanced ability to create persuading opinions. "This is a great tool for helping educate the public," says Arvind Krishna, SVP & Director of IBM Research.
Each team competing in the hugely popular esports competition, which culminates in the sold-out Grand Finals at Brooklyn's Barclays Center next month, is attached to a city, giving fans a reason to follow. "We wanted to make an esport league that was really easy to follow," says Overwatch commissioner Nate Nanzer.
In Cheddar's interview with Gary Vaynerchuk, the CEO of VaynerMedia talks about the state of advertising, if it is the year of independent agencies, and what type of growth to expect.
Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, joins Cheddar CEO Jon Steinberg from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to discuss the future of voice technologies like Amazon's Alexa and the Google Home. He says development for the platform is just getting started.
