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For the longest time, record labels have forced Spotify to pay 70 percent (or more) of its revenue for royalties, and anytime they want, these same record labels could increase the pricing and Spotify will not be able to do anything about it. Almost a decade ago upon its debut, Spotify had no leverage because, well, at that time, it was nobody. In its first few years, it had to raise more than $180 million in order to pay the ridiculous upfront advance on royalty payments that labels were demanding. Moreover, Spotify had to sell the record companies equity.
Google has officially announced the existence of Family Link, which is an application that parents can use in setting up their child’s first ever Google account, plus take full advantage of several parental controls that not only can monitor screen time, but also establish daily limits, bedtime limits, and select which apps their kid can access.
Home improvement retail giant Lowe’s is beginning to take full advantage of Google’s Tango in mapping its store’s shelves and even the items being displayed on them. The company is now deploying an augmented reality app that tells its customer where to find the exact item they are looking for.
The instances of border phone searches are increasing. As a matter of fact, Homeland Security has disclosed that such searches conducted by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has grown from less than 5,000 in the entirety of the year 2015, to 5,000 in the last month alone. For those who think this trend is getting out of hand, there may be some bit of good news.
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