What causes a person to become radicalized? This was the subject of a fascinating talk delivered by Tamar Mitts, an assistant professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, at a “data science day” hosted by the school on… Continue Reading
Time passes quickly and the WiFi is spotty here in Trāyastriṃśa, so I apologize for taking so long to check out how you’ve been doing with our company. Of course, truth be known, Apple was already on that trajectory when I handed you the… Continue Reading
AT&T (T) management appears to have finally got the message on debt. The stock has finally rallied to multi-month highs over $32 as the CEO and CFO have remained steadfastly committed to paying down debt. The company continues making questionable… Continue Reading
Jeff and MacKenzie announced the terms of their divorce on Twitter this week in two simultaneous statements. When I wrote about it yesterday, I now think I may have missed something intriguing. First, the background. It’s fascinating and admirable that… Continue Reading
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s three mobile carriers and top U.S. telco Verizon Communications commercially launched 5G services on Wednesday, ahead of their initial schedules, as they rushed for first spot in the race to roll out the latest wireless… Continue Reading
It’s an uncertain time in Europe, not least because nobody really has an idea what’s going to happen with Brexit. But these companies are thriving nevertheless, from Austria and Belgium to Ukraine and the United Kingdom. I’ve spent a bit… Continue Reading
A reader asks: Yesterday another coworker and I made a careless mistake that may have huge results. Among other things, our company may lose a contract because of our error. Our mistake was probably a fireable offense and certainly one… Continue Reading
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Two weeks after a suicide bombing in Kashmir in February killed 40 Indian policemen, a Facebook user called Avi Dandiya posted a live video in which he played a recording of a call purportedly involving India’s… Continue Reading
It’s finally happened: PewDiePie no longer has the channel with the most subscribers on YouTube. That title will now belong to T-Series, a channel owned by the largest music production company in India. Each channel has around 92 million subscribers, and they’ve… Continue Reading
SEOUL (Reuters) – Yoon Chang-hyun’s parents told him to get his sanity checked when he quit his secure job as a researcher at Samsung Electronics Co in 2015 to start his own YouTube channel. Yoon Chang-hyun works on his Youtube… Continue Reading
Last week we covered 3 high yield stocks which had been left behind by the market in 2019. This week we’re checking out 3 high yielders which have outperformed the market in 2019. All 3 of them are vehicles from… Continue Reading
Talent issues are top-of-mind for business leaders in 2019. In fact, according to a new report from my organization, CEOs of small and midsize businesses rank decisions about talent higher in importance than decisions about customers and financials. Despite concerns for… Continue Reading
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Disney’s acquisition of Fox has increased their catalog of popular children’s and family franchises. How they use that data should be a cause for concern.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German used-car dealing platform Auto1 said it could seek a public offering in future but a 2018 cash infusion from Japan’s Softbank means it has no immediate need for extra funding of its European growth plans. FILE… Continue Reading
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Netflix Inc is testing a 250 rupee ($3.63) monthly subscription for mobile devices in India, the video streaming giant said, aiming to boost its presence in a price-sensitive market where data consumption on smartphones is surging. FILE… Continue Reading
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, plans to roll out a commercial 5G mobile network by June, partly using Huawei technology despite the United States’ concerns the Chinese telecom giant’s equipment could be used for… Continue Reading
Techno-optimist prognosticators will tell you that driverless trucks are just around the corner. They will also gently tell you—always gently—that yes, truck driving, a job that nearly 3.7 million Americans perform today is perhaps on the brink of extinction. At… Continue Reading
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Jennifer Tejada, chief executive officer of PagerDuty Inc., speaks during the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women conference in Dana Point, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. The conference brings together leading… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – U.S. federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook Inc struck with some of the world’s largest technology companies, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed records… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for over several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said in a tweet, but its parent Facebook Inc’s app still seemed to be down for some users across the… Continue Reading
When an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning, killing all 157 people aboard, observers quickly noted that the circumstances resembled those of another flight. In October, Lion Air Flight… Continue Reading
[unable to retrieve full-text content]More than 160 years of history. And it all comes down to this (again).
Elon Musk will not go quietly. On Monday night, lawyers representing the Tesla CEO submitted a filing to a federal judge in New York arguing that she should deny the Securities and Exchange Commission’s request to hold Musk in contempt… Continue Reading
On Sunday, the DNA testing company 23andMe revealed a new genetic analysis that it says will tell its customers if they have an elevated risk of developing the most common, and preventable, form of diabetes. The report—which has not been… Continue Reading
[unable to retrieve full-text content]It’s the latest health report developed from the reams of data the DNA company has collected over the years.
By this point, you’ve hopefully gotten the message that your personal data can end up exposed in all sorts of unexpected internet backwaters. But increased awareness hasn’t slowed the problem. In fact, it’s only grown bigger—and more confounding. Last week,… Continue Reading
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics centre in Boves, France, August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc will close all of its U.S. pop-up stores and focus instead on opening more book… Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt will set out on Thursday a “doctrine of deterrence”, including economic and diplomatic counter-measures, to prevent cyberattacks that threaten to turn elections into “tainted exercises”. Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is seen… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: National Transportation Safety Board… Continue Reading
FILE PHOTO: General view of Microsoft’s logo at Microsoft Corporation headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it will offer its cyber security service AccountGuard to 12 new… Continue Reading