Super Bowl social media dominance, Yahoo overtaking Google, self-driving cars, promising enterprise startups..
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.