Some of the world's leading automakers are all turning to the same company to help bring past the self-driving finish line. Aurora CEO and Co-Founder Chris Urmson joins Cheddar at CES to discuss his firm's newly-announced partnership with Volkswagen Group. He describes his company's goal as providing the "drivers," by way of software, for autonomous vehicles.
The partnership is focused on developing "mobility as a service" initiative in major cities. Urmson describes how Aurora will help Volkswagen Group's fleet of self-driving cars, known as Sedric, connect people in urban communities. He explains how the service initiative will help people with mobility issues of their own, as well as making transportation easier for commuters.
Urmson reveals how his company spent the past year working with Volkswagen Group to integrate its system into the automaker's fleet. He breaks down Aurora's high-pedigree founding team, including himself, a veteran of Google's self-driving initiative, and Sterling Anderson, one of the minds behind the launch of Tesla's Model X.
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.
Video games and esports, which are front and center at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this week, have caught the attention of the entrepreneur and CEO of VaynerMedia. "I have been lurking in the grass, as they say," he told Cheddar's Jon Steinberg.
