Warner/Chappell Music will no longer collect about $5,480 per day on royalties for the copyright to “Happy Birthday to You” after federal judge George King ruled Tuesday in Los Angeles that the 1893 lyrics weren’t subject to copyright protection anymore.
The Brookings Institution found that President Obama is using bad data to justify spending an extra $120 billion on “Preschool for All.” Research by the left-leaning think tank discovered that advocates of the policy, which would extend a new entitlement for all low- and
CEO Martin Winterkorn just stepped down as CEO of VW Group after the company admitted that for the last 6 years they had installed sensor “defeat device” software to reduce emissions readings by up to 98 percent in 500,000 diesel-powered cars sold in the United States.
Microsoft has acknowledged that its free Skype Internet-calling, video and text service suffered a worldwide outage on September 20, 2015. The paid business users’ service is reportedly not suffering the same outages.
From fewer than 50 barrels a day in 2009 to 400 barrels today, fracking technology has advanced at a pace that has doubled oil well production every 2 years. That pace of productivity improvement is almost identical to the computer industry’s Moore’s Law, which expects the speed of processing chip to double every 2 years.
The 15 miles that separate Apple and Stanford University now have tech centers for 11 car makers, if you include Apple and Google. Although each company is spending spectacular amounts of money on developing driverless cars, Apple may be about to take the lead by being the first company to gain the state’s DMV permission to test artificial intelligence cars on public roadways.
The Obama Administration’s Dodd-Frank Act, passed early in his first term to supposedly punish Wall Street, has had the adverse effect of actually making billions for Wall Street hedge funds by cutting in half the percentage of Americans that could
A teenage app developer has found a backdoor that opens up the names and e-mail addresses of Kylie Jenner fans who just downloaded her new mobile app.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPQ) announced on Tuesday that the company will cut about 10 percent of its 300,000 member workforce, but appears to be moving “forward” with expanding its use of H1-B foreign immigrant visas.
California picked up an average of about an inch of rain, with some mountain areas collecting 2 inches, as hurricane Linda brought the first of what is expected to be a “tropical train” of El Niño generated and other storms to the West Coast.
California’s office of Environmental Protection issued a “notice of intent” to label Monsanto’s highly effective ‘Roundup’ weed herbicide’s key ingredient glyphosate as a cancer causing compound.
Just weeks after Boeing sold off all the equipment at its 1.1 million square foot Long Beach, CA factory, Europe’s Airbus officially opened in Alabama what the company promises will be the most cost-efficient commercial airliner assembly plant in the world.
Now in the final countdown to the Wednesday, September 16 release of Apple’s mobile iOS 9 and September 30th release of desktop OS X El Capitan, content providers are freaking out revenue loss because the update will feature a “native” built-in ad-blocking extension.
With the two hottest stock markets since the March 9, 2009 bottom being India and the United States, it should not be surprising that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is headed to California’s Silicon Valley to celebrate Indian/American entrepreneurship.
With Microsoft’s Surface tablets generating about $3.6 billion in revenue over the last year, Apple introduced the iPad Pro to protect their iPad franchise where sales fell to the lowest level since 2011. Although Apple’s “Pro” comes with a Surface-like detachable keyboard and stylus, its short comings may limit its popularity with the creative crowd.
California’s top demographer, Joel Kotkin, warned this week about the financial risks of Los Angeles hosting the 2024 Olympics without local corporate underwriting.
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation last week aimed at protecting privacy by banning drones from flying within 350 feet above a property without the owner’s consent.
Ellen Pao’s long-strange-trip included filing a historic gender discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, losing at trial, getting fired as CEO of Reddit, and now dropping her appeal and paying KPCB $276,000 in legal fees.
The Kersten Institute just published a warning that a fiscal storm will arrive in the next few months as new Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) pension and benefit accounting standards push “potentially hundreds of California agencies to the brink of balance sheet insolvency,” causing Moody’s credit rating service to issue a massive number of “junk” downgrades and threaten “another wave of municipal bankruptcies in California.”
Growing El Niño May Launch Huge Latino Migration to U.S.
The latest Gallup poll taken just before the Labor Day weekend reveals that President Barack Obama’s job approval rating among union members has fallen from 69 percent to 52 percent.
California Governor Jerry Brown vowed Wednesday to wage a “life-and-death struggle” to “change the very basis of our industrial economy.”
Apple Inc. threw a party and shareholders got a headache Wednesday when the company introduced a slew of only slightly better stuff.
Facing a coming Supreme Court decision that may permanently end all compulsory union dues collections in California, Sacramento Democrats are trying to slip in new rules that will require an ‘orientation’ on taxpayer-funded time for unions to confront employees about the wisdom of continuing to pay dues.
With Apple’s stock price under pressure, the company is gearing up at the San Francisco Cow Palace for the September 9 World Developer Conference.
