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Boston summit to guide founders on funding, hiring and AI
TechCrunch has revealed the agenda for its one-day Founder Summit, taking place on 4 November at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. The event is designed to give startup founders practical guidance on fundraising, leadership, hiring, AI strategy and building category-leading companies, with advice from experienced investors and entrepreneurs. Featured speakers include Underscore partner Brian Devaney, HubSpot…
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Dead Kennedys Guitarist East Bay Ray Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease
Dead Kennedys guitarist and founding member East Bay Ray has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the band announced on 22 September. Despite the diagnosis, he intends to continue performing and touring for as long as his health permits, making the announcement significant for fans and the group’s future live performances. Ray, born Raymond Pepperell, co-founded…
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Motorola unveils Signature 27 with 200MP telephoto camera
Motorola has unveiled the Signature 27 flagship smartphone at the Snapdragon Summit, positioning it as one of the first devices powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor. The company calls it its most advanced smartphone yet, with upgraded cooling, Bang & Olufsen speakers and a substantially improved telephoto camera. The main camera…
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Saudi billionaire landowner joins furious villagers at war with developers over 13 ‘XXL mega-sheds’ which will swallow six MILLION sq ft of countryside
Saudi billionaire Wafic Said, an 86-year-old Syrian-born businessman and former Conservative donor, has joined residents of Stoke Lyne in Oxfordshire in opposing plans for 13 enormous warehouse developments on greenfield land beside the M40. The logistics companies Tritax Big Box and Albion Land are appealing against Cherwell District Council’s refusal to grant planning permission, in…
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Hung parliament looms, genocide charge filed, FBI hacked
Electoral forecasts predict a hung parliament as Labour collapses. The UK prosecutes its first Rwanda genocide suspect; hackers also breach the FBI, whilst Australian courts hear murder evidence and Discord revamps its age-verification system.
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Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work
Paramount has settled legal challenges from 12 US states to its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, with new conditions requiring the combined studio to significantly increase film output. The settlement aims to protect employment and domestic production in the entertainment industry, though the terms only apply for five years and contain provisions that…
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Trump DOJ Official Minimizes State AGs’ Paramount-WBD Settlement, Says It Yielded No New Antitrust Related Commitments
A senior US Justice Department official has downplayed the antitrust concessions secured by 12 state attorneys general in their settlement allowing Paramount’s proposed $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery to proceed. Stanley Woodward said the agreement introduced no new antitrust commitments, arguing that Paramount’s existing promises were sufficient to protect competition and that consumers…
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Joy Behar doubles down on argument US will not elect a woman president
Joy Behar reiterated on “The View” that she believes the United States would elect candidates from several minority groups before electing a woman president. Her comments, supported by guest host Star Jones, prompted disagreement from co-hosts who argued that Hillary Clinton’s and Kamala Harris’s defeats do not prove women cannot win the presidency. Behar cited…
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Mayor Sheffield tells reporter to ‘calm down’ amid chief’s investigation – FOX 2 Detroit
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield told a reporter to “calm down” and declined to comment further when asked about private photographs at the centre of an investigation into Police Chief Todd Bettison. Sheffield said the city’s Office of the Inspector General should be allowed to complete its work and reiterated her confidence in Bettison’s leadership. The…
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TV Ratings: ‘60 Minutes’ Is Both Up and Down in Week 2
‘60 Minutes’ attracted 6.77 million viewers and around 1.1 million adults aged 25-54 on 20 September, improving on the comparable episode last year. However, its audience fell from the previous week because CBS lacked a major late-afternoon NFL lead-in, highlighting the programme’s dependence on strong football scheduling. The episode’s interview with Patrick Clancy, whose former…