Apple managed to buck a down market Tuesday, closing up more than 2 percent on mostly positive reviews of the iPhone 7 and encouraging (though unspecific) preorder reports from Sprint and T-Mobile. Also Tuesday, Apple released iOS 10 (though not without a glitch) and updates to its watchOS and tvOS.
[Austen Hufford | Wall Street Journal]
Zdenek Gazda, the fellow who shot the 20-second video of a wobbly Hillary Clinton being helped into a van on Sunday, stands to make some hefty cash thanks to his deal with Storyful, a company owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp that sources and distributes user-generated video. Storyful has already generated "a couple hundred thousand" dollars selling the usage rights to news organizations, which it will split with Gazda.
[Peter Kafka | Recode]
Before he co-founded online education startup Udacity in 2012, Sebastian Thrun led Google's early work on autonomous vehicles. Now Udacity plans to ease a talent shortage in that field by offering a "nanodegree" program in self-driving technology, with support from Mercedes Benz, Didi Chuxing, Nvidia and new Uber acquisition Otto.
[Heather Somerville | Reuters]
Jay Z's Tidal music streaming service is leaking money. Aspiro, Tidal's parent company, lost nearly $28 million last year, more than double its loss in 2014, even as revenue rose by 30 percent.
[Matthias Verbergt and David Gauthier-Villars | Wall Street Journal]
Uber invited reporters to come check out the self-driving Fords it is going to start using in a portion of Pittsburgh today.
[Mike Isaac | New York Times]
Facebook
By Kurt Wagner
It’s all part of his pledge to give away all his wealth.
Google
By Peter Kafka
Your move, Facebook
E-commerce
By Jason Del Rey
The round values the company at about $70 million.
Video
By Peter Kafka
No joke! The guys behind the guys behind Smosh get serious money.
Podcasts
By Eric Johnson
Walker’s six values for disrupting health and beauty: "Courage, inspiration, respect, judgment, wellness and loyalty."
In this short film written and directed by the "Portlandia" star
for fashion label Kenzo, a young woman named Abby (Laura Harrier) is adopted by Natasha Lyonne (from "Orange Is the New Black") after writing "mom" in the comments section of one of her Instagram posts. It doesn't go well.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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