Summary: Qualcomm and Apple must like each other a lot. Over the years they've found creative ways to spend so much time together, either as partners or in court as frenemies. What else could it be? This go-round it's Qualcomm amending a prior litigation to allege Apple of having intentionally stolen and provided Qualcomm's modem code to Apple's partner Intel. It doesn't get much uglier than it is right now. Hosts Olivier Blanchard and Fred McClimans attempt to make some sense of this mess, plus: Our Fast Five: Uber rival Lyft partners up with Zipcar, DC's Metro, and Capital Bikeshare to offer 50 lucky people a chance to go car-free for a month (and further distance itself from Uber); Facebook announces a data breach impacting over 50 million users; Collaborator Slack looks like it's ready to collaborate with Wall Street and a 2019 IPO; Google adds creator and copyright metadata to Google Images; And after skipping out on the public congressional hearings with Facebook and Twitter, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai finally makes his way to DC for public testimony and... wait, no, make that private one-on-one meetings. What'ev... Our Tech Bites this week: Elon Musk. And we don't need to say another thing. Our Crystal Ball Prediction? :We take a cut at the most likely outcome from the Qualcomm, Apple, Intel litigation - our winner vs loser take, so to speak. This episode features: Olivier Blanchard (@oablanchard) and Fred McClimans (@fredmcclimans). If you haven't already, please subscribe to our show on iTunes or SoundCloud. For inquiries or more information on the show you may email the team at info@futurumresearch.com or follow @FuturumXYZ on Twitter and feel free to direct inquires through that channel as well. To learn more about Future research please visit www.futurumresearch.com As a reminder, the Futurum Tech Podcast is intended as an informational newsletter only. No investment advice is offered. While equities are frequently discussed, no investment advice is offered or implied.
