(Reuters) – Google employees brainstormed ways to alter search functions to counter the Trump administration’s controversial 2017 travel ban, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing internal emails. FILE PHOTO: A Google logo in an office building in Zurich… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp announced on Tuesday new AI and mixed-reality applications for its Dynamics 365 online business software, putting to use its augmented-reality goggles HoloLens for businesses. FILE PHOTO: A Microsoft store is pictured in New York City, New… Continue Reading
The Department of Justice has reportedly opened a criminal fraud investigation into Tesla, after CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter last month that he was considering taking the automaker private and had “funding secured” to do so. Musk later revealed… Continue Reading
Red Hat‘s Ansible Tower, like other DevOps tools, such as Chef and Puppet, makes it much easier to manage your IT infrastructure without the blood, sweat, and tears of manually setting up servers, containers, and clouds. With the latest edition,… Continue Reading
You’re not Google. Neither are you Apple. A-players aren’t fighting tooth and nail for a chance to work on your company. So it’s up to you to attract them with a kickass job description and a great company culture. But here’s the… Continue Reading
Change is coming to the financial sector. For a long time, the industry believed that tech startups couldn’t challenge traditional financial institutions. The incumbents were too big and the industry too regulated. But the last two years has seen a… Continue Reading
If you are one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who need equity funding to get your startup going (no loans to repay), you are probably overwhelmed at the prospect of finding, contacting and pitching to the huge number of qualified… Continue Reading
MINNEAPOLIS/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The founder and chief executive of Chinese retailer JD.com Inc, Richard Liu, was arrested in Minneapolis last week following an allegation of rape, according to a public information report released by police on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Richard… Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Google retains only a slight lead over Facebook in the competition for digital ad dollars in the crucial India market, sources familiar with the figures say, even though the search giant has been in the country… Continue Reading
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. As we stagger toward Labor Day, it’s worth thinking about the state of labor. America is near full employment. Some of the… Continue Reading
Netflix’s stock is having something of a late-summer resurgence, erasing some of the losses it suffered after it reported a slowdown in subscriber growth during the second quarter. Shares of Netflix stock have risen 15% since Aug. 17 to close… Continue Reading
Using newly installed facial-recognition technology, a man entering the U.S. from Brazil with a French passport at Washington, D.C.’s Dulles airport was identified as an impostor, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said on Thursday. The identification came three days… Continue Reading
If you were watching MTV in 1990, you might remember seeing Madonna, draped in an American flag, bopping around between snapping backup dancers, and encouraging viewers to vote in that year’s midterm elections. It was the first-ever ad for Rock… Continue Reading
Amazon has worked on creating a digital video recorder (DVR) that records live television and stream shows on smartphones and the company’s Fire tablets, plug-in devices, and media software, according to a Bloomberg report. An Amazon-branded DVR with local storage… Continue Reading
The Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a complaint Friday accusing Facebook of allowing advertisers to illegally discriminate against certain groups through its ad system. The housing-discrimination complaint, filed under the Fair Housing Act, said that advertisers can use… Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An employee fired from Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) Nevada battery factory filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing the company of spying on employees and failing to act after learning that a… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) dominates chips for training computers to think like humans, but it faces an entrenched competitor in a major avenue for expansion in the artificial intelligence chip market: Intel Corp (INTC.O). FILE PHOTO: The logo of… Continue Reading
You’ll crack a smile at least when you watch the Southwest Airlines flight attendant’s safety brief that I’ve embedded below. It’s pretty funny, although she does talk quite fast. But it’s time to ask a serious question: Would you remember… Continue Reading
Good evening, Cyber Saturday readers. A number of tech companies excised the rantings and ravings of Alex Jones, a pundit known for promulgating deranged conspiracy theories, from their digital repositories this past week. On his website, InfoWars, Jones has been… Continue Reading
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. We waft about our lives absorbed in our fascinating selves and assuming so much about others. We don’t really have much time… Continue Reading