How to Get Away With Murder actor Jack Falahee and DJ/producer Elephante (a.k.a. Tim Wu) met years ago as high school classmates in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They’ve since found success in their respective fields, and more recently they’ve teamed up as Diplomacy, a duo whose new single, “Undertow,” is a brooding, triumphant track worth hearing. A mid-tempo rocker with a sparse beat that churns and grinds its way towards a chorus you can’t help but feel, this song is like picnicking on Valentine’s Day under dark gray skies.
- 2/20/2020
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Washington — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-ma) rolled out the most ambitious policy plan of her presidential campaign — and arguably of any 2020 candidate — when she called for breaking up of the nation’s three tech giants: Facebook, Amazon and Google.
Amazon’s e-commerce sales made up almost half of all U.S. online spending last year. A staggering 70 percent of Internet traffic flowed through websites controlled by Facebook or Google. More than 67 percent of digital advertising revenues in 2018 went to Google, Facebook and Amazon. “Today’s big tech companies have too much...
Amazon’s e-commerce sales made up almost half of all U.S. online spending last year. A staggering 70 percent of Internet traffic flowed through websites controlled by Facebook or Google. More than 67 percent of digital advertising revenues in 2018 went to Google, Facebook and Amazon. “Today’s big tech companies have too much...
- 3/12/2019
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Tim Wu is a hero to many who worry that telecoms might take advantage of being the gatekeepers of online traffic. In 2003, the Columbia Law School professor coined the phrase "network neutrality," eventually leading the Federal Communications Commission to enact tough measures stopping ISPs from blocking and throttling online content. He's now in the cross-hairs of a case that has become significantly more important since the FCC voted in December to repeal net neutrality rules. This week, Charter Communications alleged a conspiracy, with Wu playing a lead role.
The New York state attorney general, which ...
The New York state attorney general, which ...
- 5/24/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
There’s something “rotten” in the state of Facebook, and it’s tied directly to the company’s core business model, according to a former Federal Trade Commission advisor. Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, who helped the FTC settle its dispute with Facebook over its handling of user privacy in 2011, said the social network is busy serving “two masters” — advertisers and its massive audience. The disconnect between the two has made user privacy an afterthought in Facebook’s efforts to build an advertising behemoth, according to Wu. “The fact is that privacy, it’s like kryptonite to their business model,” Wu told...
- 3/27/2018
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
“We are all here tonight because this is an issue that involves all of us, and it involves America, and it involves democracy,” said Tina Bennett, the important literary agent whose employer, William Morris Endeavor, had rather hastily arranged last night’s sold-out (albeit free) panel at the New York Public Library, “Amazon: Business As Usual?” It was “a loya jirga for book people,” Bennett said. On the agenda was What Is to Be Done — if anything — in the matter of Amazon versus Hachette.The mix of seven panelists included some broad thinkers — not just Amazon bête noire James Patterson (a Hachette author) and outspoken Grove Atlantic publisher Morgan Entrekin, but anti-Amazon attorney Bob Kohn, “net neutrality” coiner and advocate Tim Wu, and political theorist Danielle Allen. All of them had something informed and levelheaded to say about the e-tailer’s increasingly aggressive drive to control publishing. And then there...
- 7/2/2014
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
Credit Manohla Dargis for kicking up a big discussion about the intertwined economics and cultural worth of independent film with her much-debated “As Indies Explode, An Appeal for Sanity” published in the New York Times. While her plea to distributors to stop buying so many movies struck Sundance-bound hopefuls as, well, a little mean, others are viewing her commentary in different ways. The latest is Columbia professor and journalist Tim Wu, who has penned a New Yorker response, “More is More in Independent Film.” “Dargis is wrong,” he flat-out writes, “making lots of films to yield a few hits is […]...
- 1/16/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Credit Manohla Dargis for kicking up a big discussion about the intertwined economics and cultural worth of independent film with her much-debated “As Indies Explode, An Appeal for Sanity” published in the New York Times. While her plea to distributors to stop buying so many movies struck Sundance-bound hopefuls as, well, a little mean, others are viewing her commentary in different ways. The latest is Columbia professor and journalist Tim Wu, who has penned a New Yorker response, “More is More in Independent Film.” “Dargis is wrong,” he flat-out writes, “making lots of films to yield a few hits is […]...
- 1/16/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Breaking: Tina Bennett, a longtime agent at Janklow & Nesbit, has just joined the New York-based literary division of Wme. Bennett had been with Janklow & Nesbit since 1994 and was most recently a director there. Her clients include Malcolm Gladwell, Laura Hillenbrand, Eric Schlosser, Atul Gawande, Jill Lepore, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Peter Bergen, Lev Grossman, Tim Snyder, Terry Castle, Amy Chua, Matthew B. Crawford, Sheri Fink, Alex Ross, James Carroll, Eliza Griswold, James Risen, Tom Reiss, Patrick Keefe, Tim Wu, Fareed Zakaria, and many others. She specializes in narrative nonfiction, cultural history, idea books, literary fiction, politics and current affairs, and academic crossover titles. Bennett is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and serves on the board of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
- 7/23/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Apple's visionary leader isn't really a computer guy at all – he's an old-style media mogul
As I write, the most valuable company in the world, in terms of market capitalisation, is Exxon Mobil. This is a huge corporation, based in Texas and operating across the world. It drills for, and refines, oil; sells thousands of oil-derived and petrol-related products; and operates in all the major markets in the world. In the UK, it owns Esso, for example, and the chances are that if you bought engine oil or other lubricants in the last year you were purchasing an Exxon product. And last Thursday morning it was worth $416.3bn.
Question: on the same morning, what was the second most valuable company in the world? Another oil giant? A global retailer such as Walmart? A multinational mining company?
Answer: none of the above. It was a California-based computer manufacturer that makes outrageously...
As I write, the most valuable company in the world, in terms of market capitalisation, is Exxon Mobil. This is a huge corporation, based in Texas and operating across the world. It drills for, and refines, oil; sells thousands of oil-derived and petrol-related products; and operates in all the major markets in the world. In the UK, it owns Esso, for example, and the chances are that if you bought engine oil or other lubricants in the last year you were purchasing an Exxon product. And last Thursday morning it was worth $416.3bn.
Question: on the same morning, what was the second most valuable company in the world? Another oil giant? A global retailer such as Walmart? A multinational mining company?
Answer: none of the above. It was a California-based computer manufacturer that makes outrageously...
- 2/13/2011
- by John Naughton
- The Guardian - Film News
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