Over content moderation concerns, of course. They follow GM and giant ad agency conglomerate IPG, which also put their Twitter ad budgets on hold. Being associated with the heartless mass layoffs probably isn’t helping either.
Borla, which makes loud performance exhaust systems for cars, has a new “exhaust system” for the Mustang Mach-E... which is just speakers playing preloaded engine sounds that can be controlled by an app. This is silly, but not as silly as Dodge pretending its fake EV exhaust system is not just speakers.
How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up?
The company, which sold wireless home broadband to apartment residents using neat little mmWave antennas, recently laid off half its employees. Now it’s looking to sell itself. Turns out competing with America’s entrenched, monopolistic ISPs is incredibly difficult. :(
[CEO Chet] Kanojia said potential buyers/investors have already expressed interest in Starry. He said some of the parties are financial players and others are strategic investors, meaning companies running businesses that could be synergistic with Starry’s.
[Fierce Wireless]
If $8/month gives everyone priority on the platform, does anyone have priority?
And Amazon Music is a “distant third.” That’s according to Amazon Music VP Steve Boom, who explained how the modern steaming business works and why Prime Music now includes 100m tracks (in shuffle mode) for free on this week’s Decoder podcast.
Apple Music raised its rates. Will Amazon Music follow suit?
She’s the first artist to own all top 10 slots, according to the mag. (There’s a PhD thesis in how this list diverges from the actual track listing of Midnights. Or at least a really intense Tumblr post.)
Thinking a lot about these former Elon Musk superfans who say they’re over it now — the common thread is that the more Elon talks, the more he breaks the myth.
Among these former fans, there’s an overarching sense that they would respect Musk more if he said less. Most give credit to Musk for his contributions to the EV and space industries — the problem they see is his tendency to stride into other conversations as if he’s an informed authority, whether it’s opining on how many Covid cases there would be by April 2020 or how to run a social media platform.
[Vox]
