TNB Tech Minute: Sonos Breaks Into the Premium Headphones Market
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:18.6 | Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Tuesday, May 21st. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:24.8 | filling in for Zoe Thomas. Sonos is plugging into headphones. The maker of premium |
| 0:30.9 | wireless speakers is getting in on the headphone market as its speaker |
| 0:35.0 | sales sag and the headphone market begins to soar. Today the company announced their |
| 0:40.0 | ace headphones which are set to go on sale June 5th. |
| 0:44.2 | The $450 ace will compete in the premium end of the over-year headphone market with brands |
| 0:50.1 | like Sony and Boes, as well as its most formidable foe, Apple, which sells premium over-ear |
| 0:56.2 | headphones under the Beats Electronics brand along with its AirPods Max. |
| 1:01.2 | Samsung Electronics has replaced the head of its semiconductor business, an executive who had also served as co- CEO. |
| 1:09.0 | The move comes as the South Korean company has lagged behind its rivals in the artificial intelligence boom. |
| 1:15.2 | Samsung is one of the biggest recipients of the Biden administration's CHIPS Act subsidies. |
| 1:21.0 | The tech firm has now tapped a turnaround specialist to replace their top |
| 1:24.8 | semiconductor exec hoping to grab more business from companies like |
| 1:28.4 | NVIDIA. And Pixar, the animation studio behind hits like The Incredibles and Toy Story, is planning to cut 14% of its workforce. |
| 1:39.0 | According to people familiar with the is seeking to cut costs and scale back the volume of content made exclusively for streaming. |
| 1:55.0 | For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out Tuesday's Tech News Briefing Podcast. |
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