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T.J. Kirkpatrick | Bloomberg | Getty Images Deborah Hersman, president and chief executive officer of the National Safety Council, at a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration conference in Arlington, Virginia, Oct. 5, 2016. Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary on the cusp of launching the first autonomous rideshare service in the U.S., …
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Facebook has ‘black people problem’: Mark Luckie, former employee
Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify following a break during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee joint hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. A former Facebook employee accused the company of having …
Read More »Netflix to animate Roald Dahl books in push into kids content
Getty Images Reed Hastings attends Reed Hastings panel during Netflix ‘See What’s Next’ event at Villa Miani on April 18, 2018 in Rome, Italy. Netflix is pushing further into kids content with a new deal to animate popular Roald Dahl books, the company announced Tuesday. Netflix said it plans to …
Read More »Higher-than-expected viewership of ‘The Match’ between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson forces refunds, WSJ reports
Harry How | Getty Images Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson look on prior to The Match: Tiger vs Phil at Shadow Creek Golf Course on November 23, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Viewer interest in “The Match” between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson far surpassed AT&T’s expectations, according to The …
Read More »Prosecutors want sanctions for El Chapo lawyers over for cell call
Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, leaves after a pre-trial hearing at Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on August 14, 2018. In that ruling, Cogan said he was sympathetic to …
Read More »Facebook VP says antitrust regulation will not fix its problems
Soeren Stache | picture alliance | Getty Images Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of policy solutions, speaks at a press conference in Berlin, Germany, 14 September 2015. Facebook refused to entertain the idea of antitrust regulation of during a hearing in the U.K. Tuesday with representatives from nine governments. Canadian …
Read More »Apple CEO Tim Cook and Ivanka Trump visiting schools in Idaho
Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple launch event in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., October 30, 2018. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Ivanka Trump, advisor to President Donald Trump, will visit Idaho’s Wilder School district on Tuesday, the White House said. The …
Read More »Wall Street analysts on Apple after Trump’s iPhone tariffs threat
VCG | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook attends China Development Forum 2017 – Economic Summit at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on March 18, 2017 in Beijing, China. Apple remains under scrutiny from Wall Street as President Donald Trump’s threat of new tariffs on iPhones piled on to the stock’s recent …
Read More »Trump, GOP have ‘completely neglected’ banking oversight
David A. Grogan | CNBC Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaking at the CNBC Capital Exchange event in Washington, D.C. on July 25th, 2018. Republicans and President Donald Trump have failed to scrutinize the financial services industry, and that needs to change, said Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. “For the last two years, …
Read More »Ukraine guilty of dangerous ‘provocations,’ Russia says after it seizes ships
STR | AFP | Getty Images Seized Ukrainian military vessels are seen in a port of Kerch, Crimea, on November 26, 2018. – Kiev and Moscow faced their worst crisis in years on November 26, 2018 as Ukraine and its Western allies demanded the release of three ships fired on …
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