Pour one out for Roku City
…But the most significant thing that Murdoch buys with this deal is direct access to the 100 million households that make up Roku’s user base. It’s precisely because Roku and…
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The US gets the worst phones
…Tim Cook, ever the pragmatist bent on slow-rolling product upgrades that maximize profit, presumably bristled at attempts to cut into the iPhone’s profit margins. I’ve just started testing…
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
…So I think setting the company up to operate profitably and to do that for the long term, and then have a strong foundation that we can build on top of, and…
Tim Cook was an innovator — just not the Jobs kind
…Apple managed unheard-of profit margins on the iPhone, and Foxconn became a trillion-dollar industry leader. Cook may not have been a Jobs-level product innovator, but he did figure out…
The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
…Meanwhile, Anthropic is going to be turning an operating profit of $559 million in the second quarter of this year. Yeah, you read that right: Profit. In the quarter. Of course, you…
Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire
…As you’ve said several times now, Starlink is the only profitable part of this business. It generated $11.4 billion in revenue last year. It goes up and down. Everything else…
AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle
…Based on the idea that Blackness is “inherently exploitable” and “up for grabs,” digital Blackface is used to “extract value from Black bodies in whatever way [non-Black people] see fit,” Davis…
Can Puck reinvent news for the influencer age?
…Are you profitable right now? We are very close to profitable. Like a dollar away or like a million dollars away? I’m not going to answer that question, but we’re…
Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
…Amazon and OpenAI clearly wanted a closer partnership, especially as Amazon is playing catch-up in the AI market and trying to push agents to businesses through its Bedrock service. OpenAI told…
Xbox exclusives are back and more complicated than ever
…With a new Xbox CEO in charge, hardcore fans have been ramping up the pressure on Microsoft to bring back Xbox-exclusive games, and the company finally relented during the Xbox Games…