Google and Amazon are ready to shake up the small business lending world and place competitive pressure on traditional banks, according to Karen Mills, advisor for small businesses to former President Barack Obama. Reports in CNBC said Mills, speaking at London’s LendIt Europe conference, predicted these...
Barack Obama seems to have found a very unlikely and surprising ally during his two-term presidency, Walmart. As first reported by Bloomberg, the massive big-box retailer has been one of the strongest, most outspoken supporters of more than a dozen of the president’s initiatives trough...
Call it “Craigslist for guns;” call it “eBay for guns” … President Obama didn’t mention the website by name in his speech on Tuesday (Jan. 5) outlining stronger gun control legislation, but a reference was made to Armslist.com. It’s the largest peer-to-peer firearms sales website...
A new government agency is being formed to protect the U.S. from cyberattacks in both the public and private sector. Announced on Tuesday (Feb. 10) by Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center will coordinate...
November 22, 2019
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is concerned about the impact technology can have on society. “Big disruptive” information technologies can sometimes be “dangerous,” Obama said during a talk with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. “People don’t know what’s true and what’s not, and what to believe,” he noted, adding that instead of uniting people, technology — […]
August 30, 2016
Barack Obama seems to have found a very unlikely and surprising ally during his two-term presidency, Walmart. As first reported by Bloomberg, the massive big-box retailer has been one of...
January 07, 2016
Call it “Craigslist for guns;” call it “eBay for guns” … President Obama didn’t mention the website by name in his speech on Tuesday (Jan. 5) outlining stronger gun control...
February 11, 2015
A new government agency is being formed to protect the U.S. from cyberattacks in both the public and private sector. Announced on Tuesday (Feb. 10) by Lisa Monaco, assistant to...
