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Friday, April 3rd, 2026.
100 Eleventh Avenue, ICA Building, One High Line.
Chelsea, Manhattan.
On the topic of Net Neutrality:
2014.11.12: AT&T stopped buildout of their fibre-optic network until it has “solid Net Neutrality rules to follow.”
John Thorne, senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Verizon, argued that they would have no incentive to make large investments to develop advanced fibre-optic networs if they are prohibited from charging higher preferred access fees to companies that wish to use them.
The Net Neutrality debate would see Facebook/Google/Netflix fighting Comcast/Verizon/AT&T.
One article grouped together Yahoo!, Vonage, eBay, Amazon, IAC/InteractiveCorp, Microsoft, Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, Daily Kos, and Greenpeace as amongst the proponents of Net Neutrality.
Another article grouped Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Nokia, Qualcomm, Broadcomm, Juniper, D-Link, Wintel, Alcatel-Lucent, Corning, Panasonic, Erikson, and Google.
Oracle is in a lengthy battle with Google over proprietary rights concerning similar aspects of code for Java and Android, respectively.
Every major news network is owned by or implicated with an ISP; the threat of throttling therefore gives ISPs leverage to control the news.
ISPs are now buying internet companies for vertical integration in order to be able to offer comprehensive service packages.
Steam/Valve recently removed support for both BitCoin and usage of Pepe the Frog from their services, the latter at the behest of the cartoon’s author.
2017.12.14: The American FCC repealed Net Neutrality provisions despite the behest of millions including founders of the Net and Web.
A non-neutral Internet would increase the capacity for centralization.
Numerous parties are battling to be at the centre of that centralization.
IAC Building, New York by Peter Westerhof Via Flickr: Architect: Frank Gehry (2007)
Cramer Remix: InterActiveCorp is inexpensive here and is a buy right here CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday investors his blessings to buy shares of InterActiveCorp. The media and internet conglomerate on May 8 released its financial report for the period ending March 31, which delivered earnings per share of ... Business News
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TIL Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com are owned by the same company, InterActiveCorp, who also own CollegeHumor, Vimeo, and 50 other internet websites
TIL Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com are owned by the same company, InterActiveCorp, who also own CollegeHumor, Vimeo, and 50 other internet websites
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Source: Today I Learned (TIL)
Copyright law is so crazy that seemingly the only way you can get away with building a streaming TV service is by using thousands of tiny antennas, like Aereo did. (It sounds crazy, but Aereo was built around a 2008 legal decision. Seriously.) And it's driving the TV networks insane that this technology can even exist. But it's not going away anytime soon: They won a big legal victory today, with an appeals court denying a preliminary injunction to shut the service down. Next step? They're going to trial.
IAC Poaches AOL SVP To Be New Vimeo CEO
By Will Wei
IAC just announced that its popular video sharing site Vimeo has a new CEO. His name is Kerry Trainor and he was poached by IAC from AOL. Poached from AOL -- you don't hear that very often.
Trainor was an SVP and General Manager for the Huffington Post Media Group, and he takes over as Vimeo CEO in place of Dae Mellencamp, who will stay on as Vimeo's president.
Vimeo is known around the Internet as a hipster/artsy YouTube. Launched in 2004 and acquired by IAC in August 2006, Vimeo has reportedly been shopped around by IAC, which -- according to PandoDaily -- is looking to sell a 50% stake in the video sharing site.
One reasoning behind this rumored potential sale is that Vimeo has avoided placing ads on or around its videos. "We consider the video player to be sacred," said Vimeo community director Blake Whitman in a past interview. "The content that you put up there, we feel like it's yours, and we will never put an ad in or on top of your video."
Now, as Vimeo's new CEO, Kerry Trainor is tasked with the big assignment of finding different streams of revenue -- hopefully without intruding on Vimeo's clean, ad-free videos and pages.
Best of luck, Trainor, and here's hoping you keep Vimeo looking like Vimeo, without those annoying overlay and pre-roll ads, a la YouTube.
