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At the start of 2020, it was seen by some as the future of "snackable" smartphone entertainment. Shows were shot so they could be watched full-screen in both portrait and landscape mode, with users able to switch with a turn of their handset. And the firm spent hundreds of million of dollars of the near $2bn (£1.5bn) it had raised to create an library of exclusive short, bite-sized content. Many media companies signed up, including the BBC, which had its own news show on the platform. But somewhere along the way things went very wrong. image copyrightGetty Images I spoke to three of Quibi's content creators.
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USA TODAY That was fast. Short form video streaming service Quibi, the brainchild of former Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, announced Wednesday that it was shuttering for good, just six months after it launched in April. "Although the circumstances were not right for Quibi to succeed as a standalone company, our team achieved much of what we set out to accomplish, and we are tremendously proud," the executives said in an open letter to employees, partners and investors. Quibi said Thursday it expects to shut down the service on or about Dec. 1. No one could possibly have seen this turn of events, except, you know, everyone who wasn't involved in the creation of Quibi itself.
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Huawei: 'Clear evidence of collusion' with Chinese Communist Party. US tech giants accused of 'monopoly power' Image copyright Getty Images/EPA/Reuters A report backed by Democratic lawmakers has urged changes that could lead to the break-up of some of America's biggest tech companies.
The recommendation follows a 16-month congressional investigation into Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. "These firms have too much power, and that power must be reined in," Democratic lawmakers working on the probe wrote. But Republicans involved in the effort did not agree with the recommendations. In a statement, one Republican congressman Jim Jordan dismissed the report as "partisan" and said it advanced "radical proposals that would refashion antitrust law in the vision of the far left. " Should you be buying a second-hand smartphone? Subway rolls ruled too sugary to be bread in Ireland. Image copyright Getty Images The rolls used in Subway's hot sandwiches contain too much sugar to be considered bread, according to Ireland's Supreme Court.
Ireland's highest court made the ruling in a case about how the bread is taxed. An Irish franchisee of the US company had claimed it should not pay VAT on the rolls it uses in heated sandwiches. But the court ruled that because of the level of sugar in the rolls they cannot be taxed as bread, which is classed as a "staple product" with zero VAT. Disney to cut 28,000 jobs at US theme parks. Image copyright Getty Images Walt Disney has announced it will lay off 28,000 employees, mostly at its US theme parks.
Disney cited the parks' limited visitor capacity and uncertainty about how long the coronavirus pandemic would last as reasons for the layoffs. The company's theme parks have taken a major hit from the pandemic. Disney shut all its parks earlier this year as the virus spread, but only Disneyland in California remains closed. "We have made the very difficult decision to begin the process of reducing our workforce at our Parks, Experiences and Products segment at all levels," Josh D'Amaro, chairman of the parks unit, said in a statement.
Amazon One: Palm scanner launched for 'secure' payments. Image copyrightAmazon Amazon has announced a new payment system for real-world shops which uses a simple wave of the hand.
Its new Amazon One scanner registers an image of the user's palm, letting them pay by hovering their hand in mid-air "for about a second or so", it says. The product will be trialled at two of Amazon's physical stores in Seattle. Meng Wanzhou: The PowerPoint that sparked an international row. Image copyright Getty Images When Meng Wanzhou's flight landed in Vancouver on 1 December 2018, she was expecting to make only a brief stopover.
But nearly two years on, the chief financial officer of Huawei and daughter of the telecoms giant's founder looks set for a prolonged stay - placing considerable strain on relations between Canada and China. The next round of hearings in a protracted legal battle over her extradition to the US begin on Monday. Those involved say the whole process could drag on for as long as a decade, leaving Canada caught in the escalating tension between Washington and Beijing, focused on one of China's most prominent companies. At the centre of the story is a sixteen-page corporate PowerPoint presentation. GE: Industrial giant will stop building coal-fired power plants. Image copyright Getty Images In a dramatic reversal, one of the world's biggest makers of coal-fired power plants is to exit the market and focus on greener alternatives.
US industrial giant General Electric said it would shut or sell sites as it prioritised its renewable energy and power generation businesses. It comes ahead of a US Presidential election in which the candidates hold starkly different views on coal. NGO the Natural Resources Defense Council said the move was "about time". GE has said in the past it would focus less on fossil fuels, reflecting the growing acceptance of cleaner energy sources in US power grids. Uber's self-driving operator charged over fatal crash. Image copyrightReuters The back-up driver of an Uber self-driving car that killed a pedestrian has been charged with negligent homicide.
Elaine Herzberg, aged 49, was hit by the car as she wheeled a bicycle across the road in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018. Investigators said the car's safety driver, Rafael Vasquez, had been streaming an episode of the television show The Voice at the time. Ms Vasquez pleaded not guilty, and was released to await trial. TikTok: What is Oracle and why does it want the video-sharing app? Image copyrightGetty Images Software giant Oracle is believed to be the frontrunner in the bidding war for short-form video app TikTok.
Microsoft dropped out of negotiations with Chinese-company Bytedance on Sunday night, after which Reuters reported that Oracle would become its technology partner and assume management of TikTok's US user data. The partnership should address US security concerns but not be a complete sale, sources told the agency. ARM: UK-based chip designer sold to US firm Nvidia. Image copyrightGetty Images/ARM UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia. The deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn. ARM's technology is at the heart of most smartphones, among many other devices. Nvidia has promised to keep the business based in the UK, to hire more staff, and to retain ARM's brand. It added that the deal would create "the premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence" (AI).
Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects. Image copyrightReuters Netflix's chairman has said working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder. But Reed Hastings, who founded the platform, also said its 8,600 employees would not have to return to the office until most of them had received an approved coronavirus vaccine. And he predicted most people would continue to work for home on one day a week even after the pandemic was over. A new UK government ad campaign is now asking workers to return to workplaces.
Facebook threatens news sharing ban in Australia. The search engine boss who wants to help us all plant trees. Image copyright Shane Thomas McMillan The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Christian Kroll, the founder and chief executive of internet search engine Ecosia. TikTok boss quits as Trump's ban looms. Image copyright Getty Images TikTok chief executive Kevin Mayer has quit after just two months in the job ahead of an impending ban by US President Donald Trump. The Chinese-owned firm has been accused of being a threat to US national security by the Trump administration. Mr Mayer joined TikTok in June after leaving his role as Disney's head of streaming services. TikTok was given 90 days to be sold to an American firm or face a ban in the US. "In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, I have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for," Mr Mayer said in a letter to employees.
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