At a White House event, Apple commits to spending another $100B on US manufacturing and aims to bring more of its supply chain to the US to avoid iPhone tariffs
Made In USA iPhone Still Off The Table Snaggy / The Joy of Tech : The Joy of Tech comic... Tim and Trump! MarketWatch : Dow Jones Top Markets Headlines at 11 PM ET: U.S. Trading Partners Race to Secur...
OpenAI's pitch deck to news publishers promises priority placement to partners in chat conversations and payment contingent on “display success”
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Apple and Major League Soccer announce a 2023-2032 broadcasting deal, with games available via MLS Apple TV app or Apple TV+; source: deal is worth $250M+/year
In a historic first for sports, fans can stream every single MLS match through … Tim Baysinger / Axios : Apple builds sports empire with MLB, MLS deals Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Apple signs 10-year s...
Sources: WarnerMedia is weighing two new streaming services, with a subscription service based on CNN content in 2021 and a free entertainment service for 2022
With Ads Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Hope you weren't planning to watch Wonder Woman 1984 with an HBO Max free trial Tweets: Jessica Toonkel / @jtoonkel : WarnerMedia is discussing a couple more vide...
Sources: Amazon in talks with big US publishers about paying them to expand internationally so it can reach more shoppers with its affiliate business
Amazon is in talks to pay publishers to expand the content they're making that is filled with affiliate links to Amazon.I wonder at what point this sort of thing becomes sponcon / a conflict of intere...
AT&T CEO on 5G deployment, how 5G may replace broadband in 3 to 5 years, new applications it will enable, and leveraging Time Warner for its streaming services
Recode : Tweets: @pkafka Tweets: Peter Kafka / @pkafka : Here's my chat with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson from last week: Friends, 5g, sports betting, TV sports rights and more. Words: http://www.reco...
NBCUniversal says it will launch an ad-supported streaming service in Q1 2020 that is free for pay-TV subscribers; source: non-subscribers could pay ~$12/month
totally different than what the rest of the industry is doing. It will be free for pay-TV users and about $12 for cord-cutters. Lots of stuff here: http://www.cnbc.com/... Alex Sherman / @sherman4949 ...
Sources: Apple strikes deal with Steven Spielberg to remake Amazing Stories, an 80s sci-fi series, in its first major foray into creating original content
What SoftBank's Masayoshi Son Is Up to With $100 Billion Financial Times : Apple eyes iconic studio as base for Hollywood production push Karl Utermohlen / InvestorPlace : Apple, Steven Spielberg Team...
Facebook is in talks with TV shows and video producers about licensing content including original, licensed, scripted, unscripted and sports programming
Peter Kafka / Recode : Tweets: @brianstelter and @pkafka Tweets: Brian Stelter / @brianstelter : ->@PKafka scoop about Facebook's next step paying $$ to “seed video content.” Including “original & li...
The New York Times and The Guardian Sign On for Google and Twitter's Instant Article Push
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