Month: May 2018

Dozens of civil-rights organizations called on Amazon.com to stop selling its facial-recognition technology to law-enforcement organizations.

Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the heart of Facebook’s data scandal, is liquidating assets and has asked employees to vacate its London office.

Mark Zuckerberg apologized to EU lawmakers over the fake-news and privacy scandals engulfing Facebook, but rebuffed suggestions that the company has outsize market power and avoided responding to many difficult questions.

Intel plans to release patches for a new vulnerability affecting its chips, the second time this year it has addressed flaws known as Spectre and Meltdown. It is unlikely to be the last.

Amazon cultivated an image as a customer-friendly company in part by making it easy for shoppers to send back items they don’t want. Then it started banning customers who return too many items.

Anyone hoping for an intense grilling of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his testimony Tuesday before European politicians in Brussels can keep on waiting. Zuckerberg trotted out familiar talking points and was sheltered from the intensity and awkward eye contact of real interrogation by a strange format, in which members of the EU Parliament asked… Continue reading »

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Many in marketing want to work at the hottest new company “disrupting” a certain kind of business, be it shaving, pharmacies or even milk. But most ad agencies don’t have that luxury, especially if they’re owned by parent companies that report, first and foremost, to their investors. Media network PHD is part of Omnicom, the…

The #MeToo movement has made its way into the world of fast food and big burger chains. A group of ten women, all current or former McDonald’s restaurant employees, have filed sexual harassment complaints against the company. The complaints come from women across nine cities including Chicago, Detroit, Durham, N.C., Kansas City, Mo., Los Angeles,…

Gary Norcross of Fidelity National Information Services was the highest-paid software executive in 2017, at $29.1 million. But low-paid company at Alphabet and Facebook helped bring down the median pay.

Happy Harvey Milk Day! Stoli is taking advantage of this pseudo holiday to release a limited edition bottle celebrating the legendary gay activist and politician. “The Harvey Milk Limited Edition Bottle continues Stoli’s 25-year history supporting the LGBTQ community and commemorates the 40th anniversary of Milk taking office in 1978 as the first openly gay…