Uber has been slapped with an $8.9 million fine in Colorado after state criminal investigators found it had allowed 57 individuals with past criminal or motor vehicle offenses to drive and pick up passengers on its platform over the past year and…
View More Uber fined $8.9M in Colorado for driver screening failuresCategory: Policy
The DOJ sues to block AT&T’s Time Warner deal
On Monday, AT&T confirmed the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to sue in order to block the company’s plans to purchase Time Warner for $85.4 billion. Earlier reports suggested that the DOJ would move against the deal if AT&T did not intend to sell CNN. CNN has a famously fraught relationship with the Trump administration which has gone out of its way to attack the… Read More
The DOJ sues to block AT&T’s Time Warner deal
On Monday, AT&T confirmed the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to sue in order to block the company’s plans to purchase Time Warner for $85.4 billion. Earlier reports suggested that the DOJ would move against the deal if AT&T did not intend to sell CNN. CNN has a famously fraught relationship with the Trump administration which has gone out of its way to attack the… Read More
Germany bans kids’ smartwatches that can be used for eavesdropping
A German regulator has banned domestic sales of children’s smartwatches that have a listening function — warning that parents have been using the devices to secretly eavesdrop on teachers at their kids’ school. Read More
FCC reportedly planning vote that could kill net neutrality next month
The Federal Communications Commission will drive a stake through its own net neutrality rules roughly this time next month, if Chairman Ajit Pai gets his way. Sources at Bloomberg and Reuters say the FCC’s head honcho will showcase plans next week for a vote to repeal a 2015 order regulating web traffic throttling. If Pai gets his way, the vote will go down just ahead of winter… Read More
Voting machine makers explain what they do (and don’t do) to make sure no one hacks the vote
As the House and Senate continue to examine the wave of disinformation around the 2016 presidential election, concerns around the security of voting systems examine something even more germane to the U.S. democratic system. Read More
View More Voting machine makers explain what they do (and don’t do) to make sure no one hacks the voteSenate plans disastrous tax on vesting that could kill stock compensation
A proposed tax that charges people as their startup equity vests instead of when they cash it out and actually have money to pay the taxes could wreck how tech companies recruit talent. And the industry doesn’t have much time to mobilize to get this tax changed. The U.S. Senate released its proposed tax reform bill late last week under the aggrandized “Tax Cuts and Jobs… Read More
Facebook will teach the unemployed digital/social media skills in 30 cities
Whether it’s to “bring the world closer together” or improve its public image, Facebook today announced Community Boost. It’s a program travelling to 30 cities around the U.S. in 2018 that will teach digital job skills to the unemployed, Internet literacy to those just getting online, startup methodology to entrepreneurs, and customer growth to small business… Read More
Four years later, Yahoo still doesn’t know how 3 billion accounts were hacked
On Wednesday, in a security hearing that called both Equifax and Yahoo’s past and present executives to Washington D.C., we’re learning a bit more about what Yahoo didn’t know about the biggest hack in history. When pressed about how Yahoo failed to recognize that 3 billion accounts — and not 500 million as first reported — were compromised in what was later… Read More
VC Shervin Pishevar sues GOP opposition research firm for “smear campaign”
Sherpa Capital co-founder Shervin Pishevar has filed a lawsuit against Definers Public Affairs, a Republican opposition research firm that he believes is being paid to spread rumors about him.
The Uber investor and Hyperloop One co-founder is accusing former Mitt Romney presidential campaign manager Matthew Rhoades and his business partner, Joseph Pounder, of aiming to convince reporters of… Read More
Apple has reportedly relocated its international tax residency to Jersey
Last year, the EU ordered Apple to pay up to $14.5 billion for illegal tax benefits in Ireland. The company smelled something fishy when Commissioner Margrethe Vestager started the investigation in 2014, as the International Consortium of Investi…
View More Apple has reportedly relocated its international tax residency to JerseyTrump’s Twitter account temporarily disappeared
President Trump’s infamous Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump went briefly offline on Thursday, setting forth a wave of confusion and emotions. Trump’s Twitter account appears to be down. pic.twitter.com/VLNfnGcz6H — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 2, 2017 If Trump’s Twitter is down, does this technically mean he’s no longer POTUS?
I mean, it’s… Read More