US and China Are Now Battling for Control of the World’S Big-Data Monsters and Dragons – And It’S Not About Money

US and China Are Now Battling for Control of the World’S Big-Data Monsters and Dragons – And It’S Not About Money

As the tech war between the United States and China heats up, the political controversy between who ought to own and control ‘big data’ has similarly ignited, and is now about to land a bombshell on Wall Street. When Didi Chuxing, China’s ride-hailing giant, launched its mega US IPO earlier this summer, it seemed like…

How One of America’s Premier Data Monarchs Is Funding a Global Information War and Shaping the Media Landscape

How One of America’s Premier Data Monarchs Is Funding a Global Information War and Shaping the Media Landscape

Aselect group of national news “stakeholders” gathered at an undisclosed location for what was described as a “semi-secret” workshop somewhere in Canada on January 26. The meeting had been convened to determine how and to whom a “news industry bailout” of $645 million in Canadian government subsidies to private and supposedly independent media outlets would be disbursed….