Google has received more than two times the number of requests from copyright holders to pull links with content that reportedly infringes on legal rights. Alphabet's subsidiary reported on March 7, Monday that it received over 76 million requests to pull such content from search results URLs that link to it.
Netflix stock prices rose almost 3.4 percent on March 4, Friday due in part to RBC Capital Markets' survey results. The questionnaire showed that an all-time high 53 percent of the streaming service's customers use it to watch movies and TV series. Those high figures beat the ones earned by Google's YouTube and Amazon.com.
Nintendo-themed land will be coming to Universal Studios Japan that will cost $351 million in total.
Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin recently sent an email to the company's investors to inform them the livestreaming app is failing. The email explained that the company started last year on a "high note," but the situation became worse during the year because mobile broadcast video did not become as popular as the company had hoped. Tech rivals including Twitter and Facebook had more early users and Meerkat was unable to grow as fast.
Snapchat already raised $175 million in new venture funding from Fidelity Investments and other investors.
Samsung and Six Flags have teamed up to produce a promotion for Gear VR headsets to be used on actual roller coasters. Visitors to the nine Six Flags coasters in the United States will have the option to wear a Gear VR headset for the "Superman" and "New Revolution" virtual reality coaster. New Revolution will include interactive shooting that probably involves Gear VR's trackpad.
Reports say that Apple’s iPhone 7 baseband modem will be supplied by Intel.
Top tech companies, security experts, and civil liberties supporters filed court papers that back Apple in its battle with the FBI over a locked iPhone used during the San Bernardino shootings last December. Meanwhile, many law enforcement groups filed briefs backing federal officials in their request for Apple to hack the iPhone 5c owned by the mass killer.
FBI Director James Comey admitted on March 1, Tuesday that the federal bureau made a mistake when it changed the Apple ID password of the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5c. The United States House Judiciary Committee asked Comey during a hearing about the issue of encryption. A committee member asked if the FBI had considered it would be unable to get a backup of the mobile device of Syed Farook by changing the account's password.
AT&T has announced it plans to stream cable TV over the Internet in the fourth quarter of this year via DirecTV products. It will allow subscribers to stream content to devices with a wired or wireless web connectivity including smartphones, tablets, PCs smart TVs, and set top boxes.
