Beyond The Valley
CNBC's “Beyond the Valley” brings you all the latest from the vast, dynamic world of tech — outside the Silicon Valley.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 107
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Big Tech gets smacked by big governments
China, the United States and the European Union all want to rein in Big Tech to one degree or another, each for its own reasons.
00:27:45 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
What's next for the $45 billion games console industry
Nearly 50 years after the debut of the first games console, the industry has changed dramatically. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are battling it out for supremacy, with all 3 making forays into subscr…
00:27:11 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
The 'splinternet': Is the internet fracturing?
Beijing has blocked a lot of foreign content within Chinese cyberspace for years. But tensions between the U.S. and China now threaten to split the internet into separate technological systems — one …
00:30:26 |
Tue 20 Oct 2020
China wants to rival the US in semiconductors
The U.S.-China tech war has made Beijing realize it needs a strong chip industry. But catching the United States will be a stiff challenge.
00:18:58 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Central bank cryptocurrencies may remake money
Raghuram Rajan, former India central banker and ex-IMF chief economist, explains to "Beyond the Valley" what central bank digital currencies could look like — and what they would mean for commerce.
00:31:41 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Sorry, China and America — Europe wants to take back its data
Caught between the tech giants of the United States and China, an initiative from Germany and France hopes to keep European data under European control. Enter Gaia X.
00:24:11 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
China’s 15-year plan to shape the future of tech
Beijing is gearing up to launch an ambitious 15-year blueprint called "China Standards 2035." Its aim: to influence global standards which underpin many key technologies. But is it all just hype? Or …
00:24:20 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
The digital tax: A political fight with US tech giants in the middle
The world is trying to figure out a tax system fit for the 21st century. But debate over a digital tax has caused political clashes between Europe and the United States.
00:21:42 |
Wed 06 May 2020
Here's what coronavirus is teaching China's tech giants
China's biggest technology firms have doubled down on health tech including AI, potentially opening lucrative new streams of revenue.
00:12:58 |
Mon 27 Apr 2020
Space companies want to beam web access to the entire planet
Companies from SpaceX to OneWeb are looking to send thousands of satellites into space. The aim is to bring internet to the remotest parts of the world. But there could be problems.
00:16:36 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
TikTok: From viral app to national security concern
Chinese-owned app TikTok has become one of the biggest social media platforms in the world. But now it's facing scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers.
00:13:38 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Facial surveillance may come to a space near you
Technology is being perfected in China that uses cameras, software and artificial intelligence to identify individuals as they go about their daily lives. And now other countries are trying it out.
00:18:09 |
Tue 08 Oct 2019
Inside Huawei's rough year
Beyond the Valley looks at how Huawei has navigated a trade war, a tech blacklist, and other global turbulence — and where it may be headed next.
00:18:16 |
Fri 06 Sep 2019
Facebook’s Libra: What is it, and can it take crypto mainstream?
Beyond the Valley explores Facebook's “Libra” and other global efforts to make cryptocurrencies a part of daily life.
00:23:31 |
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Big Tech fears US regulation, but it may be Ireland that should scare them
A unlikely regulatory body sits firmly on the front line of data protection and privacy, and it wields a very "big stick" over Silicon Valley and beyond.
00:16:17 |
Thu 20 Jun 2019
The hot trend in smartphones? Not buying a new one
Smartphone makers have a problem. A lot of people see no reason to upgrade. Manufacturers are trying hard to give them one.
00:13:32 |
Thu 23 May 2019
What is 5G — and why are the US and China fighting over it?
The 5G network of the future will manage super-complex tasks quickly, and both China and the United States want to control it.
00:21:01 |
Mon 22 Apr 2019
It's easy to open an online store — if you give big tech a piece of the action
E-commerce has opened the whole world to sellers in Asia and Europe. But if they want to be big merchants, they have to contend with big tech.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cal…
00:21:59 |
Fri 08 Mar 2019
China vs US: Which country will dominate AI?
Artificial intelligence is the most important tech frontier, and both the United States and China want to dominate it. We look at how the two countries compare now—and where the race is headed.
See …
00:16:12 |
Mon 04 Feb 2019
How a cryptocurrency scam and its shadowy leader bilked investors out of $2 million
Eager investors put money into an initial coin offering, or ICO, led by a figure by the name of Marco Fike. Everything seemed to check out at first. But then they discovered that Marco Fike wasn’t re…
00:15:42 |
Wed 12 Dec 2018
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