1. Google’s Self Driving Taxi Goes Live Yesterday, Waymo became the first autonomous ride-hailing company to hit the streets without engineers riding shotgun. It’s just you, the car, and nothing be…
YouTube’s Highest Paid Vlogger—Only 7 Years Old!
1. YouTube’s Highest Paid Vlogger 7-year-old YouTube Star, Ryan of Ryan ToysReview, has reportedly made $22M this year playing with toys. Talk about a sweet gig for a first grader! Ryan, with 17.3M…
Samsung Beats P&G as Largest Advertiser
1. Samsung Beats P&G at Advertising Samsung Electronics has taken the title of World’s Largest Advertiser by spending $11.2B on advertising and promotions this past year. The former titleholder…
Google Employees Boycott China
1. Google Employees Boycott China Back in August, leaked documents surfaced regarding Google’s plans to build a censored version of its search engine for the Chinese market. The project (codename: …
Facebook’s Diversity Downfall
1. Facebook’s Diversity Downfall Former Facebook partnerships manager Mark Luckie sent an internal memo to his former co-workers on his last day of work earlier this month accusing the company of d…
Black Friday Shatters Online Sales Record
1. Black Friday Shatters Online Sales Black Friday foot traffic was unsurprisingly lower this year by 1.7% compared to 2017, while online sales were up 23.6%. Shoppers spent $6.22B, with $2B of th…
Amazon Bids on Disney’s Sports Networks
1. Amazon Bids on Disney’s Networks Amazon aims to increase its offerings for Prime subscribers after bidding on all 22 of Disney’s regional sports networks acquired from Fox in a merger earlier th…
Facebook Ignores Warning Signs
1. Implications with FB Facebook has been quote-unquote unraveling this past year. Privacy issues, data breaches, and hackers (oh my!) are all key problems the tech giant has been facing. Advertise…
2019’s Most Highly Anticipated
1. 2019’s Most Highly Anticipated In 2019, we can expect to see the most US-based tech IPOs of this century. Candidates include: Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Slack Messenger. The last time we saw this m…
Elon Musk’s “Teslaquila” Alcoholic Drink
1. Elon Musk’s “Teslaquila” Drink Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk and Mexico’s tequila producers could be heading for a collision after the agave-based drink’s industry group opposed the billionair…