TNB Tech Minute: Blue Origin to Launch Satellite Network, Compete With Starlink
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:21.6 | Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, January 21st. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:28.5 | Blue Origin plans to build a satellite network that would compete with SpaceX's Starlink business. |
| 0:34.1 | Japh Bezos's space company would also compete with the satellite division his former |
| 0:37.9 | company Amazon has been deploying. Blue Origin said today it aims to start deploying TerraWave, |
| 0:43.7 | a more than 5,400 satellite constellation in near-Earth orbit toward the end of next year. It would |
| 0:49.5 | target businesses, data centers, and government customers. The move into internet connectivity is a new |
| 0:55.3 | venture for Blue Origin, which has historically focused on developing rockets. OpenAI expects to see |
| 1:01.9 | a more even mix between its consumer and enterprise businesses by the end of the year. That's |
| 1:07.8 | according to its CFO, Sarah Fryer, who spoke in a CNBC interview at Davos, |
| 1:12.6 | Switzerland. She says a year ago, OpenAI was about 70% consumer to 30% enterprise. But today, |
| 1:19.8 | that number is more 6040. And she estimates that at the end of this year, that'll be closer to 50-50. |
| 1:26.7 | Fryer said OpenAI currently has 1 million |
| 1:29.5 | enterprise customers. And Ubisoft Entertainment says it's undergoing a major structural overhaul, |
| 1:37.0 | discontinuing several games, closing some studios, and cutting financial targets. The French |
| 1:42.0 | video game group said it'll reorganize into five creative |
| 1:45.2 | houses in April, each with its own leadership team and focusing on specific game types, such as |
| 1:50.5 | shooter games or narrative-driven games. Each creative house will also be financially accountable for |
| 1:55.9 | specific titles like Assassin's Creed or Ghost Recon. The company set the move was meant to strengthen |
| 2:01.4 | collaboration in an increasingly competitive market. Ubisoft has been seeking to turn its |
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