Following Discovery Communications $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive in March, the company is now toying with the idea of launching its own direct-to-consumer service. According to remarks made by Discovery CEO David Zaslav at an industry event, AdWeek reports [paywalled], the company is considering a service with all of Discovery’s networks at a price…
Internet of Business says A report by Comparitech has ranked the USA’s 50 states by the online privacy protections provided by local law, highlighting huge disparities across the country. The study evaluates each state based on 20 key criteria, covering customer data, social media, protection for journalists, employee communications, law enforcement agencies’ access to data,…
More bad news for subscription movie ticket service MoviePass, which acknowledged yesterday that there was an unidentified issue preventing people from using their MoviePass credit cards to get tickets. A regulatory filing from parent company Helios & Matheson offers more insight about what happened. The filing (first spotted by Business Insider) announces a “demand note”…
Cisco’s cybersecurity arm Cisco Talos has published several vulnerabilities discovered in the firmware of Samsung’s SmartThings Hub. The device is designed to be controlled using a smartphone app, giving the owner oversight of all connected devices in the home, meaning that any security flaw could have serious consequences. Cisco Talos’ Claudio Bozzato found that the SmartThings Hub was severely compromised.…
Microsoft has partnered with Black Girls Code, led by Kimberly Bryant, to enable the organization to launch a chapter in Seattle, Microsoft announced on LinkedIn today. Since launching in 2011, Black Girls Code has introduced technology and computer science to young black girls in 13 cities throughout the country. Seattle marks Black Girls Code’s 14th…
Research from global satellite communications services provider Inmarsat reveals the rapid ascendency of the industrial IoT (IIoT), along with its capacity to boost revenues and the obstacles that exist to greater adoption. Overall, businesses expect the IIoT to boost revenues by a total of $154 million. The survey, conducted by market researchers Vanson Bourne, focused…
The UK parliament has provided another telling glimpse behind the curtain of Facebook’s unregulated ad platform by publishing data on scores of pro-Brexit adverts which it distributed to UK voters during the 2016 referendum on European Union membership. The ads were run on behalf of several vote leave campaigns who paid a third company to…
Forget about tweeting: some IoT companies could benefit from chirping instead. Malek Murison catches up with an intriguing startup, Chirp, and finds out why sound could be the safest and most efficient data-transfer medium in some situations. James Nesfield is CTO of data-over-sound startup, Chirp. He believes that transmitting data using sound waves, at both audible…
Qualcomm today said it wouldn’t extend its offer to buy NXP for $44 billion today as part of its release for its quarterly earnings, and instead be returning $30 billion to investors in the form of a share buy-back. So, barring any last-second changes in the approval process in China or “other material developments”, the…
On the back of last night’s unveiling of its enterprise Cloud Services Platform, Google has just announced two new products aimed at helping customers develop and deploy intelligent connected devices at scale. Edge TPU is a new IoT-focused chip for the edge environment, and Cloud IoT Edge is a software stack that extends Google Cloud’s AI…
