by Beth Huffington | May 3, 2021 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Apple’s newest software update for its phones and tablets dropped on April 26, 2021. With iOS 14.5 comes a new privacy tool, and it may be a big problem for some of the companies that count on receiving user data: companies like Facebook. With Apple’s...
by Beth Huffington | Apr 26, 2021 | Companies, News, Technology
Amidst all the chaos of 2020, NASA asked three companies to put forward plans for a Human Landing System program, an installation to assist moon landings. After a variety of heroic engineering from all three, the “Starship” design by SpaceX was selected. NASA made the...
by Beth Huffington | Apr 19, 2021 | Companies, News
Since 2015, at least 50 workers have filed charges against McDonald’s corporation, alleging physical and verbal sexual harassment, and managerial retaliation to complaints. The complaints have come from all levels. For example, in late 2019, McDonald’s...
by Admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Companies, News, Technology
On April 3, 2021, a user in a recreational hacking forum posted files containing the personal data – including phone numbers, names, birth dates, email addresses, and more – of hundreds of millions of Facebook users. Over half a billion users are affected, which is...
by Admin | Apr 5, 2021 | News
For business, 2020 was a long experiment on working from home, and many employers and employees found a lot of benefits. Greater productivity, no commute, cheaper for both parties, and healthier, according to the New York Times. But many tech workers say that leaving...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Companies, News
In 1966, Cyrus Poonawalla founded the Serum Institute of India (SII) to make drugs which were, at the time, hard to domestically source in India. The first products they made included treatments for tetanus and snake venom, and the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus and...
by Admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Companies, News
The co-founders of fecal testing startup uBiome are having a crappy month. On March 18, 2021, they were indicted in a California federal court on charges of healthcare fraud, wire fraud, and related conspiracy charges. And now the Securities and Exchange Commission is...
by Admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Companies, News
Texas and Mississippi made a splash last week when the governors of both states retracted executive orders requiring mask wearing in public spaces. But businesses in those states are still requiring customers to wear masks, provoking a fresh slew of outrage from those...
by Admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Companies, News
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative is the first of likely several Texan power coops to file for bankruptcy in the wake of February’s incredibly destructive winter storm. According to Brazos’s court documents, the company was on solid financial footing when it entered...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Companies, News
Just Energy, a middleman provider of electricity and natural gas, is based in Canada, but it does a huge amount of business in Texas. Well, perhaps for not much longer. On February 22, 2021, Just Energy announced in a press release that the company stands to lose...
