by Beth Holmes | May 23, 2022 | News, Profiles, Social Media
Justin Ellen is known as a remarkable, innovative baker, but the nineteen-year-old considers himself an entrepreneur first. Two years ago, Ellen was in high school, juggling the demands of his senior year with his lucrative side-hustle. His custom, ornately decorated...
by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
A lawsuit in Kenya is going ahead against Meta Platforms, alleging unsafe working conditions in a Facebook moderation hub there. Daniel Motaung, a South African man, was relocated to Nairobi, the capitol of Kenya, to work for Facebook in 2019. He worked in a content...
by Beth Holmes | May 9, 2022 | Companies, News, Technology
Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, has reached a settlement to pay $141 million over misleading advertising. Until 2021, Intuit offered two free versions of their tax-filing program, TurboTax. One was through the IRS’s Free File Program, aimed at middle-income...
by Beth Holmes | May 2, 2022 | Companies, News, Technology
Net neutrality won’t be challenged in California, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals on April 20th. Net neutrality is the stance that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot discriminate between the content users choose to access via their services. On a...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 25, 2022 | Companies, News, Technology
Netflix claims dropping subscriber numbers are requiring them to implement harsh new changes. They’ve announced paywalls for multi-household accounts, and a new cheaper ad-supported tier. According to Netflix, over 200,000 subscribers dropped the service during...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 18, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media
Twitter stock is at the center of a lawsuit against Elon Musk, alleging illegal trading practices. Between the end of January and the beginning of April, billionaire Elon Musk bought 73.1 million shares of Twitter stock, amounting to a 9.1 percent stake in the social...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 11, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Wikipedia, the massive volunteer-run encyclopedia, is being threatened by the Russian government with large fines if they don’t censor information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On March 1st, Wikipedia’s Russia site editors were sent a memo from...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 4, 2022 | Companies, News
HPM Corp, a contractor at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, will pay nearly $3 million after a fraud investigation over COVID-19 aid. HPM Corp. is the occupational medicine contractor at Hanford, providing health services to the over 9000 workers at the...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 28, 2022 | Companies, News
Past medical debt won’t hit your credit score anymore, according to all three major credit reporting agencies. Around $88 billion in medical debt was listed on consumer credit reports as of July last year, according to a report by the Consumer Financial...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 21, 2022 | Companies, News
McDonald’s closes over eight hundred stores in Russia, leaving the country entirely in response to the Russian war in Ukraine. In 1990, only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, McDonald’s was the first American restaurant chain to enter the...
