Now, blockchain technologies are poised to enhance cross-industry transparency via improvements to charity and donation programs. I spoke with Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange company Binance, which runs the Blockchain Charity Foundation (BCF)–a wing of the company that’s… Continue Reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week the company will create an oversight board to help with content moderation. The move is a belated acknowledgement Zuckerberg is out of its depth when it comes to ethics and policy, and comes… Continue Reading
BlackBerry is making its biggest acquisition ever. The once-dominant smartphone maker known for producing mobile devices so addictive people used to call them “crackberries” said Friday it is plunking down $1.4 billion in cash to buy Cylance, a cybersecurity firm… Continue Reading
Cloud security is one of those things that everyone knows they need, but few people understand how to deal with. I The good news is that it’s actually pretty simple, and somewhat similar to security for your enterprise systems. Here’s… Continue Reading
In July, executives from YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter testified before Congress about their company’s content moderation practices. While Facebook’s head of global policy Monika Bickert spoke, protesters from a group called Freedom From Facebook, seated just behind her, held signs… Continue Reading
(Source: imgflip) All income investors can agree that safe and rising income is a top priority when choosing dividend stocks. That’s especially true for retirees or those near retirement, who are counting on steady passive income to help pay the… Continue Reading
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Cornershop, a Latin American grocery delivery app being acquired by Walmart, plans to expand into Canada early next year as a test market for the United States, an executive for the three-year-old mobile app said. FILE… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly revenue and profit on Wednesday, as the network gear maker benefited from demand for its routers and switches and growth in its newer focus areas such as software. FILE PHOTO:… Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) picked America’s financial and political capitals for massive new offices on Tuesday, branching out from its home base in Seattle with plans to create more than 25,000 jobs in both New York City… Continue Reading
Featured stories There was a bit of fear when IBM acquired Red Hat that Red Hat might abandon the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Nah! In Berlin at OpenStack Summit, Red Hat introduced its latest OpenStack distribution: Red Hat OpenStack Platform… Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – Wang Miaoyi’s small one-bedroom apartment, which doubles as her design studio, is overflowing with game magazines, figurines and boxes of sci-fi novels. Game developer Wang Miaoyi works in her studio that is located in her appartment in… Continue Reading
Americans could be forgiven for becoming numb to the swarm of stories reporting gun massacres. In the last five years, ordinary Americans have been murdered in mass shootings in a synagogue, in churches, at elementary and high schools, at a… Continue Reading
We have another normal economic calendar. The election is behind us. The Fed decision is behind us. What next? Some of the punditry convened after Wednesday’s rally to say that it was time to get “back to reality.” Others are… Continue Reading
In 2009, Amazon launched its first private label brand AmazonBasic. Today, Amazon has 100+ private label brands that offer over 4,600 products. That explosive growth has been supported by rich data that Amazon mines from its marketplace. The modern monopoly’s… Continue Reading
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 things that do not work.” – Thomas Edison When it comes to financial markets, the last few weeks provide a great example of how quickly the situation can change. It was… Continue Reading
Welcome to another “morning after idea”. From time to time I use this format to present my quick thoughts for a ticker already covered in greater depth with existing research released in my prior body of work here on Seeking… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: This is a developing story about California’s Camp Fire, Hill Fire, and Woolsey Fire. We will update it as more information becomes available. At 6:30 Thursday morning, a wildfire of astounding proportions and speed broke out in Northern… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc director Robyn Denholm, a telecoms executive who has worked for Toyota, has been promoted to chairwoman of the electric car company and tasked with regulating billionaire Elon Musk’s regime after months of turbulence. An Australian accountant,… Continue Reading
A.I. has the potential to add $16 trillion globally to the GDP, but only has an adoption rate of about 4% so far. In addition to the learning curve, there are plenty of steps that need to be taken before… Continue Reading
We’ve all experienced the instant regret of sending a Facebook message to the wrong person or wishing we’d worded things better. But once you hit “send,” there’s no retrieving it. That’s all about to change, though. A line in the… Continue Reading
Users of the app Clue track their periods, ovulation, and moods—and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many of them were very sad. “A lot of people tracked their mood, and there was a lot of sadness. You could see… Continue Reading
LISBON (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics expects strong growth at its audio and auto electronics unit Harman, which has put the company “firmly in the picture of the automotive industry” as it eyes the autonomous car market, its chief strategy officer… Continue Reading
Costco is planning some big things for Black Friday. The club retailer has announced a slew of deals on its website over the weekend in the run-up to Thanksgiving and Black Friday. And with a little help from BestBlackFriday, a… Continue Reading
It’s been a tough road at American Airlines. But the company had cause for optimism after a pretty impressive third quarter this year-;in fact, the best third quarter in American Airlines history, apparently by one metric, with more than $11.5… Continue Reading
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. This is the part where the contestants start to fight among themselves. Or, perhaps, the judges do. I imagine, you see, that… Continue Reading
Air travel’s getting worse for a lot of us. If you’re not shelling out the biggest bucks and sitting in the front of the plane, life in economy is more crowded, less fun, and frankly more of a drag. That’s why… Continue Reading
On Thursday, thousands of Google employees walked out on their jobs to protest how the tech giant handles sexual harassment complaints. The organizers, Claire Stapleton, Tanuja Gupta, Meredith Whittaker, Celie O’Neil-Hart, Stephanie Parker, Erica Anderson, and Amr Gaber, made their demands known at The Cut. Unlike the coal… Continue Reading
Seven months after it sued Match Group, seeking $400 million in damages for misappropriation of trade secrets and other alleged wrongs, dating-app startup Bumble quietly asked the court to forget the whole matter. Lawyers for the company, founded by early Tinder… Continue Reading
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is struggling to ramp up its operations in Brazil, a promising market that so far has proven difficult for the world’s largest online retailer to crack, according to nearly twenty people with knowledge of… Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of the World Wide Web told… Continue Reading