Day: October 6, 2017

Transit aggregates bike-share bike locations from multiple services in Seattle and Washington, DC

With multiple bike-share services to choose from, it can be a pain to open up two or three apps just to see which has the bike closest to you. Transit, an app that shows (you guessed it) transit options nearby and recently raised $5 million, […]

New story in Business from Time: IRS Gives Equifax Multimillion-Dollar Deal Despite Massive Data Breach

(WASHINGTON) — The company at the center of the biggest breach of personal information just signed a contract with the federal government to provide, well, personal information. The Internal Revenue Service signed a $7.25 million contract with Equifax last month. The no-bid contract, first reported […]

New story in Business from Time: The Company Behind the Fearless Girl Statue Will Pay a $5 Million Settlement Over Equal Pay for Women

The Fearless Girl may have to teach its creators a thing or two. State Street, the Boston-based financial services company that installed the statue of a young girl challenging the Charging Bull on Wall Street earlier this year, agreed to pay a $5 million settlement […]

New story in Business from Time: IRS Gives Equifax Multimillion-Dollar Deal Despite Massive Data Breach

(WASHINGTON) — The company at the center of the biggest breach of personal information just signed a contract with the federal government to provide, well, personal information. The Internal Revenue Service signed a $7.25 million contract with Equifax last month. The no-bid contract, first reported […]

New story in Business from Time: The Unbelievable Ways 15 Billionaires Got Their Start

How do the richest of the richest get to where they are? As with all things extreme, their stories don’t always match up with conventional thinking about how to rise in a career. Some came from nothing and worked their way up with incredible savvy. […]

Made by Google and Made for Google: a guide to the tech giant’s big new programs

Google’s big hardware event for the year has finally arrived, and we’ve been treated to a slew of great new products from the company – including the all-new Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL. Those devices, however, weren’t the only new products from […]

Cyberattacks Against Abortion Clinics Have Increased At an Alarming Rate

Fatimah Gifford was nervous the day she was scheduled to testify in front of Texas’ Health and Human Services committee. Gifford is the VP of Communications for Whole Woman’s Health, which operates five reproductive healthcare clinics across Texas. This wasn’t her first time testifying before […]