Mobile Minutes: FCC ponders net regulations; Apple shuns trading data; Germany lifts Uber ban; Facebook resurges Surge
Months of debate and more than 1 million comments about rules for Web traffic may have moved regulators to consider tougher standards for wireless networks that connect smartphones and tablets.
Apple CEO Tim Cook took a not-so-veiled shot at many of his company?s Silicon Valley neighbors. In the second part of an interview with Charlie Rose, airing Monday, Cook said that Apple doesn?t trade on its customers? data, and questioned the practices of companies that do.
A court in Germany has lifted an emergency injunction that banned the ridesharing service Uber from operating anywhere in the country.
On Sept. 15, Coca-Cola announced the return of Surge soda and even cited the Surge Movement and general 1990s nostalgia in its official press release. ?The decision to reinstate Surge was made, in part, based on The Coca-Cola Company?s belief in listening to its fans,? the company stated.