The Tech Media Minute: Buffett Bets Big on Apple as Google Dumps Adobe Flash

Mr. Cook heads to China and India

Apple CEO Tim Cook is traveling this week, first to China and then to India. Cook arrived at his one meeting in China using the ridesharing service Didi Chuxing, which Apple invested $1 billion last week.

Buffett’s not shy of Apple

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway took a $1 billion investment in Apple during the first quarter of 2016. The move came as shares in the technology giant have slumped in recent weeks.

Is Adobe Flash finally dead?

Before the end of the year, Google Chrome will be without Adobe Flash, according to The Verge.

“Under its current vision, nearly every website would have Flash content blocked by default. Visitors would still be able to enable Flash content on a site-by-site basis, but they would have to specifically choose to do so. Chrome would display a prompt offering to enable Flash; if chosen, Chrome would remember to run Flash on that site for all future visits.”

Late Apple CEO Steve Jobs started the Adobe Flash deathwatch in 2010 when the first iPad was released.

Internet Week kicks off today, May 16 and runs through May 22 in New York. The event is billed as one “where technology, business & culture meet.”

The Tape recording was introduced 70 years ago.

Today is Love a Tree Day, National Sea Monkey Day, and Wear Purple for Peace Day.

Are Mondays the saddest days of the week? Twitter suggests it is thanks to mondaymotivation, and MondayMorning.

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• #CardsForDysfunctionalFamilies
• #MotivationMonday
• #PLMConx
• #SAPPHIRENOW
• #PLAY2016
• #INTX2016

Have a few more minutes? Check out these other stories making news:

• Instagram’s analytics will offer audience demographics, post impressions, reach & more, TechCrunch
• New Survey Highlights Startling Erosion Of Online Trust, Forbes
• Everything you love will die, especially in tech, Engadget

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