Google researchers have found multiple security flaws in Apple Inc’s Safari web browser that allowed the tracking of users’ browsing behavior, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing a soon-to-be published paper.
Prosecutors in Canada on Wednesday proposed a $196.5 million (CAD) ($149.5 million) fine against Volkswagen AG after the company pleaded guilty to dozens of counts of diesel emissions violations, a company spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.
Salesforce Foundation CEO Rob Acker believes youth like Greta Thunberg are being activated over climate issues. He wants to help convert their frustration into becoming a ‘citizen scientist.’ He joins Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous on The Ticker to discuss at Davos. …read more […]
“Big Brother” seems to follow me wherever I go.
Even when I go halfway around the world.
In the 1990s, I ventured off to Southeast Asia to run a trading company. And there was an unapologetic paternalism among the wealthy and highly educated.
While most Asian countries held elections, the majority of them were limited, highly stage-managed and often fixed. Dictatorships were common and accepted. Benign ones ruled in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. And not-so-benign ones lorded over the population in Myanmar, Cambodia, the Philippines and elsewhere.
In Indonesia, where my Asian headquarters was, the government was as ruthless as it was corrupt. But …read more […]
Boeing Co is taking a fresh look at a potential new mid-market aircraft, Chief Executive Dave Calhoun said on Wednesday, putting the brakes on a project that became overshadowed by the fallout of the 737 MAX.
Angola’s public prosecutors named former first daughter Isabel dos Santos as a formal suspect on Wednesday over alleged mismanagement and misappropriation of funds during her time as chairwoman of state oil company Sonangol, Portuguese news agency Lusa said.
Lebanon’s new government faces huge upcoming debt repayments and a currency peg at breaking point, but it may already have run out of the hard cash firepower it needs to tackle these problems.
World stock markets bounced back on Wednesday, even as deaths from China’s new virus rose to 17, while oil prices tumbled as a market surplus forecast alleviated supply concerns.
Oil prices fell about 2% on Wednesday as a market surplus forecast by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and demand worries amid the outbreak of a virus in China outweighed concern over disruptions to Libya’s crude output.
Boeing chief executive Dave Calhoun told reporters on Wednesday the U.S. planemaker expects to resume 737 MAX production “months” before its forecasted mid-year return to service.
Apple will reportedly begin offering a low-cost iPhone in February, according to Bloomberg. The phone will look similar to the iPhone 8 released in 2017 that includes the touch ID. Yahoo Finance’s On The Move panel discusses. …read more […]
The number of oil company bankruptcies rose 50% in 2019 over the previous year, as a slide in prices continued to shake producers in the United States and Canada, Dallas law firm Haynes and Boone said in a report released on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Boeing chief executive Dave Calhoun told reporters on Wednesday the U.S. planemaker expects to resume 737 MAX production “months” before its forecasted mid-year return to service. The company announced a production halt in December, when the global grounding of the fast-selling 737 MAX following two deadly crashes in five months looked set to last well into 2020. Boeing shares were down 1.5% on Wednesday. …read more […]
Inequality is rising.
Fancy new technologies are emerging that bring rapid wealth to a privileged few and only modest gains to the rest. Suddenly things are vastly different from the past, when everyone seemed more or less equal. To many, it doesn’t seem fair. And an immediate remedy is essential.
America in 2020?
Nope. The Fertile Crescent around 11,000 years ago, when the Agricultural Revolution took hold and converted bands of hunter-gatherers into settled farmers. The new technologies driving economic inequality were irrigation, pottery, and the selective breeding of cereal grasses and animals.
Interestingly, every revolution in human history that has delivered higher living …read more […]
Italy’s biggest bank UniCredit said on Wednesday it had appointed a number of senior managers to new roles, shuffling people across jobs as it works to implement its ‘Team 23’ four-year plan unveiled in December.
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