Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) spoke with Cheddar about sexual assault allegations against his Democratic colleague Senator Al Franken. He said he supports and investigation by the Ethics Committee into the incident.
Moments after the House Republicans passed its version of a tax reform bill, the Michigan Senator gave us his thoughts on the plan. He worries about the debt younger generations will inherit if the House or Senate versions of the bill make it to President Trump's desk.
Senator Peters also believes the autonomous vehicles will cause a technology revolution, similar to the assembly line. He is working on legislation to advance testing and development of self-driving car.
Shares of Tenable opened on the Nasdaq at $33 a share, well above the IPO price of $23. CEO Amit Yoran told Cheddar that cyberhacking is an "existential threat to so many organizations," and he wants to protect governments, the public sector, retailers, and cloud-computing companies from these dangers.
Aneesh Chaganty is the writer-director of "Searching," an experimental film shot entirely from the point of view of smartphones and computer screens. A former video maker at Google, Chaganty explains to Cheddar that his experience at the company prepared him for his film's technical complications.
Anthony Pompliano, partner at investment firm Morgan Creek Digital Assets, explains why he thinks prices of the cryptocurrency could increase more than sixfold by the end of the year.
Shares of Facebook plunged Thursday after its latest earnings report. But Jefferies analyst Brent Thill tells Cheddar the company won't suffer in the long term, particularly because Europe's new data rules are "great hygiene" to work out the kinks.
President Trump accused Twitter of so-called "shadow banning" high-profile Republicans from the platform. Twitter has said that, while some users appear to not be showing up in auto-fill search results, down-ranking the results has been based solely on user behavior, not on their political leaning.
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Revenue growth at the music streaming service took a bit of a hit from new data regulations in Europe, but subscriber growth continued as the company hit 83 million paying users in the second quarter.
Cheddar's Hope King sat down with Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian on Wednesday. Ohanian, whose wife Serena Williams gave birth to their first child last year, has been an advocate for increased parental leave.
Sergio Marchionne, who resigned as CEO of Fiat Chrysler over the weekend, died in Zurich on Wednesday. Mark Rechtin, executive editor for Motor Trend, emphasized Marchionne's brilliance as a CEO, and the impact his death will have on the company.
The stock was down more than 20 percent after hours after the company reported monthly active users of 2.23 billion in the second quarter, below Wall Street estimates for 2.25 billion. Revenues also fell short of expectations in the first report to cover a full quarter since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.
