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- White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci to delete tweets the internet already recorded
Empty transparency. Just one day into his job as White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci announced on Twitter that he’d be deleting past tweets. Not only is this a highly counterintuitive move for the person charged with communicating between the Trump administration and the press — not to mention ...12 hours ago - Watch: Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ trailer released at Comic-Con
We’re ready. The long-awaited first trailer to “Ready Player One” was released today at San Diego’s Comic-Con. Based on the 2011 Ernest Cline novel of the same name, the movie follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) as he tries to navigate a dystopian future in which life has become so ...14 hours ago - Big smartphones ate the tablet market
And they’re getting more popular. Big smartphones have finally eroded tablet usership. Global tablet sales declined for the first time in 2015, but the number of tablets in active use is expected to decline for the first time this year, according to data in a new forecast by research ...18 hours ago - Tickets On Sale: Saturday, July 22, 2017
If you’re one of the legion of people who thinks Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” to be one of the marquee modern holiday classics, you’re in luck – the singer has a December 20th date for her residency at Las Vegas’ Colesseum at Caesars Palace up ...21 hours ago - Why tech companies are spending so much to lobby the U.S. government on tax reform
You have to spend money to make money. For the likes of Apple, Microsoft and Google, their approach to Washington, D.C., is straightforward: They’re willing to spend money to make money — at a lower tax rate. The industry’s record lobbying spending in the second quarter of 2017 — disclosed ...23 hours ago - Full transcript: Tolga Kurtoglu, CEO of Silicon Valley research company PARC, on Recode Decode
Spoiler alert: He’s not building a time machine. On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, PARC CEO Tolga Kurtoglu dropped by the studio to talk about what’s new and what’s next at the storied Silicon Valley research and development company. You can read some of the ...2 days ago - More women and minorities than ever are taking college-level computer courses in high school
Thanks to a new course and a newish nonprofit. The share of women and underrepresented minorities taking computer science for college credit in high school spiked, thanks in part to a second Advanced Placement computer science course that launched this year. Part of the credit also belongs to Code.org, ...2 days ago - 7 Ways to Fundraise for Breast Cancer Awareness All Year LongIn the U.S. alone, more than 230,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Chances are you or someone you know has or will be affected by Breast Cancer making Breast Cancer Awareness super important to all women in our country. As a community we can help by ...2 days ago
- Market Heat Report: Beautiful Numbers for the Beautiful GameIt’s feeling awful European (or, rather, awful ‘everywhere but the United States’) these days, as the secondary market continues to be absolutely dominated by soccer, which took eight of the Top 10 spots in the daily tally on TicketNetwork. While Kenny Rogers remained at No. 1 with his farewell show ...2 days ago
- Why Microsoft stock is at an all-time, 31-year high
It’s still here. Microsoft’s share price set an all-time record high yesterday, $74.30. This morning, it’s down a bit, in the $73-$74 range. But yesterday, after Microsoft reported strong fourth-quarter results, it passed $77 in after-hours trading. This is significant because Microsoft has been a public company since 1986, so ...2 days ago - Sean Spicer’s resignation as White House press secretary will rob Melissa McCarthy of her greatest role
We’ll always have the memories. Sean Spicer, arguably the most well-known White House press secretary in recent memory, has resigned. Spicer’s resignation came somewhat abruptly today after he told President Trump that he “vehemently disagreed with the appointment of the New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.” Spicer ...2 days ago - Recode Daily: Twitter’s anti-abuse actions are working — and they apply to the Tweeter in Chief, too
Plus, Tesla rival Lucid Motors faces a choice, corporate ethics are on trend, and Instagram is influencing restaurant design. Twitter claims that its recent efforts to curb abuse are helping. The company has launched several product updates to curb abusive behavior, including changes to its private messaging feature and algorithmic ...2 days ago - 5 Tips for Building an Effective Nonprofit Annual Report
Nonprofit annual reports are not a requirement of the IRS, or any government agency. However, keeping supporters in the dark about your organization is frowned upon. Donors want to know how far their money is going, and what effect their donation has had. Not only is your annual report a ...2 days ago - Apple, Amazon and Google spent record sums to lobby Trump earlier this summer
They focused their efforts on immigration, taxes and privacy, new records show. Amazon, Apple and Google each spent record sums lobbying President Donald Trump and the rest of Washington, D.C., over the past three months, new federal records show, shelling out a combined $10 million to shape federal policy on ...2 days ago - Lyft wants more leverage in the self-driving ecosystem so it’s building its own tech
The company will be offering automakers a hardware and software suite that enables self-driving. It’s early days for the self-driving industry and yet the network of alliances among companies in the space is already incredibly complex. Now, it’s only going to get more complicated as Lyft begins to expand ...2 days ago - Tickets On Sale: Friday, July 21, 2017A farewell show from Kenny Rogers with special guest Dolly Parton (among others) is up for sale at 11AM (EST), headlining the day’s onsale action in the ticketing world. Other highlights on the day include regular sales for Jay Z’s 4:44 show in Toronto, dates from Aaron Lewis, LCD Soundsystem, ...2 days ago
- WhatsApp is building out its business team to start bringing in revenue
The company is hiring for a number of positions related to monetization. WhatsApp, the standalone messaging app that Facebook bought for $19 billion back in early 2014, doesn’t make any money. That’s about to change — apparently soon — as WhatsApp is hiring for a number of key monetization ...2 days ago - WIcreations Makes Some Moves for Epic Vasco Rossi ConcertPhotos : Louise Stickland WIcreations provided StageCo with specialist automation services to move four massive towers onstage at the epic Vasco Rossi concert and spectacle in Modena – the Italian rock superstar’s only scheduled live appearance in 2017 – attended by 250,000 rapturous fans on a blisteringly hot summer’s day ...2 days ago
- Dreamland for Loudsound at Demon DayzWhen AEG Presents launched the Dream Dayz Festival, in a new venue, Dreamland, they entrusted Loudsound to manage the event on their behalf, June 10th, 2017. The first ever Demon Dayz Music Festival at Margate’s newly refurbished and re opened Dreamland Amusement Park was hosted by multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning ...2 days ago
- Liam Muldoon appointed Managing Director of Wernick EventsEvents General Manager, Liam Muldoon was promoted to the role of Managing Director on the 1st July 2017. Liam has been with Wernick Events for over a decade. Before joining Wernick, Liam worked for his Father’s events business, but when the company was sold, Liam didn’t like the new direction ...2 days ago
- Is the future VR … or AR?
Google VR boss Clay Bavor explains why the two technologies aren’t so different on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask. Google isn’t trying to hide what it’s doing with virtual reality. The long-term goal, said Google VR boss Clay Bavor on the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, is ...2 days ago - Marshall McLuhan envisioned the Internet before anybody
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates McLuhan, who would have turned 106. Marshall McLuhan envisioned the internet decades before it was invented — that’s the popular position, anyway. He never witnessed the web, but McLuhan did anticipate its coming in a way few would, coining the now overused digital proverb, "the medium ...2 days ago - Global event planners struggling to leverage technology to enhance attendee satisfactionetouches, today announced the results of a global survey analyzing the top pain points event planners encounter throughout the event lifecycle. The survey asked 239 event planners from the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regions to identify their technology pain points and found most event professionals are only scratching the ...2 days ago
- Event technology just took a giant step forward (with a little help from Apple)At DoubleDutch, we’ve long known that the White Label Event App model (siloed, disposable apps for each customer) was not ideal. It was bad for attendees, overly complex for our customers, and inefficient and inelegant as a way to deploy software. We also knew that the right model looked more ...2 days ago
- Vinod Khosla: Venture capital has less sexual harassment than other industries
Still he wasn’t “surprised” by the revelations. To hear Vinod Khosla tell it, sexual harassment isn’t quite as common in venture capital as you might think. As a spate of allegations rock the business, Khosla said he was “a little surprised” by the revelations, but is still arguing that venture ...2 days ago
