A whopping 94% of recruiters actively use LinkedIn to vet candidates. Professionals use LinkedIn when looking for new jobs and to showcase a career and stand out to recruiters. Does your profile have what it takes stand out from the… Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sent subpoenas to Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) regarding Chief Executive Elon Musk’s plan to take the company private and his statement that funding was “secured,” Fox Business Network reported on Wednesday,… Continue Reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of founders, executives and early employees of Tinder on Tuesday sued IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC.O), claiming the parent company deliberately undervalued the dating app to avoid paying them billions of dollars and deprived some employees of… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has partnered with Kroger Co to sell the grocer’s private label products on its Tmall platform in China, an Alibaba spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday. The Kroger supermarket chain’s headquarters is shown in Cincinnati,… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday he was in discussions with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and other potential backers of his plan to take the electric car-maker private, but said financing was not… Continue Reading
A week ago, the Berkeley, California, police department tweeted out the mugshots, names, and ages of people arrested during the No to Marxism rally in Berkeley. Based on the social media profiles of those arrested, it appears that most were… Continue Reading
Uniti Group (UNIT) and its key tenant Windstream Holdings (WIN) both reported earnings yesterday. In the earnings, there is some good and some bad. On the positive side, UNIT made another acquisition/leaseback with CableSouth and a dark fiber lease to… Continue Reading
Several weeks ago Netflix (NFLX) plummeted in the wake of Q2 2018 earnings that showed positive subscriber growth and historic earnings but not at the levels Wall Street had expected. Since then the stock has not recovered but rather slumped… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Billionaire investor Elon Musk has always done things his own way, from designing space rockets to manufacturing electric cars. Now the Tesla Inc CEO is looking to reengineer how a company can be taken private. FILE PHOTO: Elon… Continue Reading
China is winning the race against the United States to build a faster nationwide wireless network that uses 5G technology, billed as the mobile industry’s future. Unless the U.S. moves more quickly, it will be at a major disadvantage when… Continue Reading
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Phoenix Suns’ No. 1 overall pick Deandre Ayton will be rated a 79 overall in NBA 2K19 when the game is released on September 11 for PS4, Xbox One, PC and… Continue Reading
We saw separately how Delta Air Lines customer service agents came up with an idea that shaves a couple of minutes off turnaround time for the airline’s jets at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. I was curious whether other lines did… Continue Reading
In retail product sales, just as in real estate, the key to success can lie in location, location, location. A strong location brings a healthy volume of shoppers AND the right buyer demographics aligned with the product you’re trying to… Continue Reading
(This is a guest post from Appilco Head of Platform and Modern Monopolies co-author Nicholas Johnson.) RIP WhatsApp. This week, the dream for what WhatsApp could have been was officially pronounced dead. What happened? Facebook announced a host of new… Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – The 2018 World Cup is over and now for the FIFA eWorld Cup, a virtual tournament that kicked off in London on Thursday with goals galore and multiple Cristiano Ronaldos and Lionel Messis strutting their stuff on… Continue Reading
The Helan Mountains is an arid mountain range that borders Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in China’s dry north. Ningxia is among the regions targeted by China’s Great Western Development Campaign. A bridge straddles mountains on the expanding outskirts of Lanzhou.… Continue Reading
Small internet providers expect a helping hand from the Federal Communications Commission Thursday, a move that could spur competition and perhaps lower prices. But the commission is also considering a more sweeping proposal that would hurt upstarts to the benefit… Continue Reading
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Non-Prescription Drug Store, Woman holding Bach flower capsules. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images) It seems you can’t attend a group dinner or scroll through your Instagram feed without a candid… Continue Reading
If digital transformation is leading to increasing use of public cloud providers, what about desktop computing? Does it make sense to move this to the cloud, consuming the desktop as a service (DaaS) along with everything else? There is some… Continue Reading
If you’re concerned about cybersecurity, and you’re not up to speed on illicit crypto mining, aka ‘cryptojacking,’ then it’s time to get with the program. Cryptojacking is now more prevalent than ransomware, 2017’s most popular cyberattack method. As I explained… Continue Reading
If it’s summer, California must be on fire. And if that’s not enough dystopia for you, there’s always the fact that DNA-testing service 23AndMe is selling clients’ information to drug manufacturers, or the emergence of mutated HIV strains that cause… Continue Reading
In the 1960s and 70s, Route 128 outside of Boston was the center of technology, but by the 1990s Silicon Valley had taken over and never looked back. As AnnaLee Saxenian explained in Regional Advantage, the key difference was that while… Continue Reading
Shutterstock Have all currently existing species of mammals been named/identified? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Jelle Zijlstra, Staff Engineer, on Quora:… Continue Reading
The Walt Disney Company is the latest in a series of large corporations recently bent on eliminating plastic drinking straws and stirrers, which some disability activists say could pose new problems for customers. The company announced Thursday that it plans… Continue Reading
The Chrome browser is more secure With Chrome 68.Credit: Skylar Vision/Pixabay The Chrome browser continues to evolve with the release of Chrome 68 for Windows, Mac and Linux earlier this week. The update includes new features for users and developers… Continue Reading
Enjoy these six tech articles as we come down the homestretch into the weekend. Greg Otto at fedscoop wrote this interesting piece about IBM’s Watson-as-a-Service. Otto writes: IBM announced last week it has moved its cognitive computing system into the cloud… Continue Reading
Susan Gerbic spent her career photographing babies at a department store in Salinas, California, just 100 miles south of San Francisco. Today, the retired 55-year-old has dedicated her life to something entirely different: Wikipedia. As a member of the skeptical… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – China has withdrawn its approval for Facebook Inc’s plan to open a venture in the eastern province of Zhejiang, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. FILE PHOTO: Facebook logo is… Continue Reading
Drone hoovers over oil and gas facilityCape Drones are not new to industry or the oil and gas sector. They have been used by companies that are offering full-service video, or to capture survey photographs for some time. However, Renner… Continue Reading
Samsung’s flagship Q9FN range of ‘QLED’ TVs is outstanding. Partnering the latest generation of Samsung’s proprietary metal-clad Quantum Dots with a new direct LED backlighting arrangement that includes hundreds of individually controlled lighting zones has resulted in some of the… Continue Reading