Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Carl Pei’s ‘Nothing’ now owns the Essential brand, and I’m kinda hyped
Here’s one bit of surprising tech news: Essential, the smartphone company launched by Android co-creator Andy Rubin, is not dead quite yet. The brand has instead been acquired by Nothing, the upstar...

OnePlus cofounder's new smart device startup Nothing acquired Andy Rubin's troubled, now-defunct Essential brand
Nothing founder Carl Pei Steve Jennings / Stringer Carl Pei's London-based consumer tech firm Nothing acquired Andy Rubin's defunct Essential brand. The OnePlus co-founder has raised roughly $22 ...

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson says the Capitol riot 'didn't seem like an armed insurrection'
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin). STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images Sen. Ron Johnson on Monday downplayed the severity of the January 6 Capitol riot. During an interview, Johnson said that the riot "didn...

Marketing Briefing: As vaccine rollout picks up steam, marketers are beginning conversations about in-person events
This time last year, the last of the in-person events for the ad industry were taking place prior to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in early March. Now, nearly a year into the crisis, marketers...

After 18 months in the oven, Forbes’s first party data play hits the market
Forbes has spent the past several years trying to build out an ecosystem that can attract and support professional communities. It hopes the diversity of that ecosystem will help set its first-party ...

How a proposed antitrust law could rein in tech platforms with ‘long overdue’ enforcement money
Over the past few years, U.S. lawmakers have talked about taking tech giants to task for potential antitrust violations. But a new antitrust reform bill, introduced by Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on ...

CBS News Digital’s Christy Tanner doesn’t expect to see a ‘Trump Slump’ in news consumption
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify News outlets experienced a surge in traffic and viewership during Donald Trump’s presidency right through to when he left o...

Why ESPN decided to put some of its top writers behind the ESPN+ paywall
Since launching ESPN+ nearly three years ago, ESPN has steadily increased the volume of videos exclusive to the $5.99-per-month service that mixes live sports, studio shows and documentary programming...

Sorry ’murica, no Mercedes-Benz EQC for you
After delaying the launch of its electric SUV, the EQC, in the US, Mercedes-Benz has decided to cancel its launch all together. According to US car site Autoblog, the EQC was originally supposed to de...

Android 12’s rumored one-handed mode could make big phones more usable
People love big phones, and companies oblige that demand by releasing devices with monster screens. Heck, even the “mid-sized” iPhone 12 has a 6.1-inch screen. Phones with big displays give you mo...

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