It’s Friday tech news time! This week’s new
roundup features Super Bowl social media dominance, Yahoo overtaking Google,
self-driving cars, promising enterprise startups and a groundbreaking net
neutrality announcement.
Last Sunday's Super Bowl XLIX was a game to remember. All the excitement of the last few minutes resulted in incredibly high social media engagement levels with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more reporting record-breaking numbers. Click the link to see TechCrunch's break down of all the impressive social media stats.
Similar
to last week’s news about YouTube ditching
Flash for HTML5, Mozilla Firefox recently made Yahoo their default search
engine. Since then VentureBeat reports
Yahoo surpassed Google in top U.S search shares during January for the first
time in five years. What do you think? Should Google worry about Yahoo?
Business Insider recently
published their annual list of the most promising enterprising startups of
2015. Check out the full list here, and a description of what each enterprise
startup offers.
Everyone
who works in tech got a nice surprise Wednesday morning when Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Feeler published an OP-ED for Wired. Feeler stressed the importance of
having an open Internet and his support for ensuring its protection going
forward. Soon the world will know the fate of Net Neutrality after more than a
decade of debate.
Many
Millennials prefer to not own a car and rely on public transportation instead.
However, according to a recent survey by market research firm GfK, 74 percent of people age 25-34
found owning a self- driving car very appealing. Not everyone think’s it’s a
good idea though. Survey responses from the University of Michigan’s Transportation
Research Institute showed respondents had concerns over safety, labor costs
and unreliable A.I.
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