How One Southern California Millionaire Used Tech To Create A Massive Real Estate Empire

At the helm of today’s progress is a technology that’s paved the way for monumental improvements in our lives — the internet has shaped our communications, commerce, entertainment, and of course, our insatiable thirst for information. It’s evolved over the years as other technologies have been built up around the expectant existence of the internet, providing the very bedrock for change across every field imaginable.

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Reinventing the Freight Industry

A series of startups are vying to become an “Uber of trucking,” leveraging truck drivers’ smartphones to quickly connect them with nearby companies looking to ship goods. The upstarts aim to reinvent a fragmented U.S. trucking industry that has long relied on third-party brokers, essentially travel agents for trucking who connect truckers with customers. But do these startups really understand the freight industry?

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Qualcomm Is Easing Past Its Licensing Issues In China, At Last

It has been more than a year since Qualcomm has been struggling to get Chinese OEMs to comply with the new licensing terms laid out by the Chinese government. The company was accused of monopolistic practices by the NDRC of China and had to pay $975 million and lower its royalty rates in the region as a result of the settlement in 2015. However, slow progress by Qualcomm in implementing the NDRC licensing terms and non-compliance by Chinese OEMs of these terms have been affecting the company’s licensing profits since then. Nevertheless, recent developments, as discussed below, suggest that Qualcomm is making significant progress in solving the compliance issues in China and it can soon be over the hump in the large smartphone market.

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