by Beth Holmes | Oct 31, 2022 | Companies, News
Ticketmaster and Live Nation should not have been allowed to merge, according to an antitrust suit put before the Justice Department. In 2010, live events organizer Live Nation and online third-party ticket-seller Ticketmaster merged to become Live Nation...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 24, 2022 | News
Freight on the Mississippi is being threatened by record low water levels, and it may result in global supply chain issues. The Mississippi River, which stretches for 2340 miles from Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and connects the Great Lakes to the...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 17, 2022 | Companies, News
Nissan will sell its business holdings in Russia to a state-held entity for the token price of 1 euro after being forced to cease production in the country. The transfer will cost Nissan Motor Co Ltd an estimated 687 million in USD, but the agreement gives Nissan the...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 10, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Musk wants Twitter again, he says, and Twitter is willing to give him another chance, for $44 billion. It’s hard to tell if Elon Musk wants Twitter, or wants Twitter’s social buzz, as he reverses course yet again on his decision to buy the massive social...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 3, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Meta has disabled a Russian propaganda network which has targeted European social media users, spreading Kremlin-approved stories about the invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, announced that they have identified and disabled the...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 26, 2022 | Companies, News, Technology
Morgan Stanley hard drives with sensitive public data were auctioned off online by a moving company, according to federal regulators. On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the federal government agency intended to protect the public from market...
by Admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Companies, Social Media, Technology
Ireland has fined Instagram 405 million euro for poor data security practices concerning children. GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, is a set of regulations in the European Union about protecting the information of individuals using websites, especially...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 12, 2022 | Companies, News
One Medical may be bought by Amazon, pending an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. One Medical is a concierge-type medical service, a sort of primary care that replaces insurance with flat membership fees. A subsidiary of 1Life Healthcare Inc., One Medical...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 5, 2022 | Companies, News
Bed Bath & Beyond will be cutting about 150 stores as it tries to recover from a long sales slump. Bed Bath & Beyond was founded in 1971 by Warren Eisbenberg and Leonard Feinstein in New Jersey, as just Bed ‘n Bath. By the mid-80s, they had 17 stores...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 29, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media
Twitter whistleblower Pieter Zatko has raised concerning questions about the social media platform’s security and integrity. On Tuesday, a letter of complaint from Twitter’s former head of security was made public. The letter was an account of his 14-month...
