In response to questions from a congressional committee, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon.com, Apple, and Facebook defended their practices and declined to answer some questions. The tech firms have been a symbol of the dynamism of the American economy for a long time and have seen their reputations impacted by claims that...
We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us more than boastful blowhards), they are likely to at least listen when we talk about favorite products and services, retailers,...
Is this the week of the CEO step-down? WeWork, Juul and eBay have all announced the departures of the chiefs at their respective helms. Every company’s ascent — or slide — is in part due to company-specific forces in play. Who’s at the helm counts...
In a way, watching the emergence of legal retail marijuana in North America is like watching someone grow up. Not really a toddler or baby — even black-market sale of recreational and medicinal pot took on many traits of legitimate retail — but more like a once...
The world’s biggest community of LGBTQ+ tech professionals, Out in Tech, has formed a membership program to improve opportunities for LGBTQ+ individuals called Qorporate, according to a press release. Founding members include Bank of America, Automattic, Snap, HP and PayPal. “Finding, hiring and retaining women,...
Wirecard has denied claims levied by the Financial Times that its subsidiaries were not audited, according to a report by Reuters. The FT, using a whistleblower as a source, said that Wirecard’s accounts in Card Systems Middle East in Dubai were not audited in 2016...
Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says signs are pointing to a slowdown in business spending in 2019. “All the hard data that we have on economic activity suggests that things are in good shape,’’ Yellen said during the National Retail Federation’s annual trade show...
Onfido, the global identity verification company, announced Tuesday (Dec. 18) that it achieved 342 percent sales growth in 2018 compared with 2017 and that it has a four-year growth rate of 3,857 percent. In a press release, Onfido said 2018 was a landmark year for the...
A new report from Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) shows that the online advertising business continues to grow at double-digit rates. “This landmark figure cements digital advertising — whether display, search or mobile video — as one of the most powerful mechanisms of all time for...