Uber executives are traveling the globe to reassure regulators that the company is changing the way it does business, after a massive data breach became the latest controversy to hurt the ride-service firm’s reputation. Uber Technologies Inc is also continuing… Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Inc Waymo self-driving car unit asked a U.S. judge on Monday to postpone an upcoming trade secrets trial against Uber Technologies Inc, so Waymo could investigate whether Uber withheld important evidence in the case. FILE… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – A Canadian accused by the United States of helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 breach of Yahoo accounts is expected to plead guilty next week, according to court records. A… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – YouTube stepped up enforcement of its guidelines for videos aimed at children, the unit of Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday, responding to criticism that it has failed to protect children from adult content. A 3D-printed YouTube… Continue Reading
Tesla (TSLA) critics make two main arguments: Electric vehicles are not yet competitive (in terms of price-performance) with gasoline cars or diesel trucks. This applies to electric vehicles in their entirety, not just Tesla. I’ll call this the unviable technology… Continue Reading
Colorado wants Uber to pay a big fine for allegedly letting convicted felons and others with questionable backgrounds drive for the company. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission said Monday that it had fined the online ride-hailing company $8.9 million for… Continue Reading
Movie theater subscription service MoviePass announced on Friday that it would offer a package letting subscribers go to the multiplex as often as once a day for an entire year for only $89.95 – which works out to $6.95 a… Continue Reading
Early Friday, Twitter announced changes to its policies on violent and hateful speech, some of them dramatic. Users will no longer be able to use “hateful images or symbols” in profile images or headers. And, in a step with few… Continue Reading
Ah, yes…the webinar. That online seminar that we know so well. The slides. The monotonous speaker. The boring topics. Pretty much sums up my webinars, at least! And yet, webinars continue to thrive. We all know the reasons why. They’re… Continue Reading
Becoming a successful writer was all I ever wanted. For years, I kept my writing to myself. I would hide my works-in-progress, I would shy away from letting anyone read what I’d written for the day–and all the while I… Continue Reading
In January, Rachel Lam retired from her longtime role as head of investments at Time Warner’s venture-capital arm, where she worked from 2003 to 2016. Less than a year later, she’s back investing in startups. Lam has teamed up with… Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google in the last few months has begun removing from YouTube extremist videos that do not depict violence or preach hate, YouTube said on Monday, a major policy shift as social media companies face… Continue Reading
Why Valeant may have been treading water for months As a bear on Seeking Alpha about Valeant (VRX) since October 2015, when the stock was around $100, I modified my views some months ago subsequent to the stock falling below… Continue Reading
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA.N) saw its Singles’ Day sales hit $16 billion by mid-morning on Saturday after racing to a billion dollars in just two minutes after the world’s biggest shopping spree opened at midnight. Jack… Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain’s top internal security official is pressing social media companies to devise automatic systems to spot and block violent militant messaging before it is posted on their networks. Amber Rudd, Britain’s Home Secretary, leaves 10 Downing Street… Continue Reading
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp, desperate for cash to avoid a possible delisting, is considering raising about 600 billion yen ($5.3 billion) by offering new shares in a third-party allotment, a person briefed on the matter said on Friday. FILE… Continue Reading
A painful 2-year TBTF “core holding” General Electric Company (GE), a perpetual member of the Dow-Jones 30 stock index has evolved through several commercial “lifetimes”, demonstrating that it truly is “too big to (need to) fail”. Recasting its owned business… Continue Reading
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – If Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) buys some Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O) businesses, it could provide a quick path for the traditional media giant to create a substantial competitor to Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) in the battle for… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Snapchat faced a worldwide outage for at least four hours on Monday, prompting a flood of complaints on rival mobile application Twitter a day before posting its third quarterly earnings as a public company. The Snapchat app logo… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – U.S. cable operator Altice USA will sell mobile service on wireless carrier Sprint Corp’s network under a new multi-year agreement announced on Sunday, becoming the latest firm to enter the wireless market in a bid to retain customers.… Continue Reading