Talk about “dying with dignity” has grown to a calamitous pitch in recent years. “Right to die” groups vie for supremacy, trying to show who can make the dying experience the least degrading. Who can replace the utter macabre-ness of the necessity of death with […]
Day: April 5, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg Should Answer This One Question When He Testifies Before Congress
Following weeks of public and Congressional pressure, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify at two Congressional hearings next week. The decision marks a shift for Zuckerberg, who just last month suggested that the company’s engineers and lawyers were better-equipped to answer Congress’s detailed […]
Apple will give $100 billion more back to shareholders because of the tax cut: Citigroup
Citi Research reiterates its buy rating for Apple shares, saying the company will use tax reform proceeds to significantly increase its stock buyback and dividend program. "Looking ahead, we expect investor focus to be on the impact from Apple's capital returns strategy, which we estimate […]
CometML wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for code
Comet.ml allows data scientists and developers to easily monitor, compare and optimize their machine learning models. The New York-based company is launching its product today, after completing the TechStars-powered Amazon Alexa Accelerator program and raising a $2.3 million seed round led by Trilogy Equity partners, […]
Sony will make almost $1 billion on Spotify’s IPO
Sony issued a press release, which is based on stock prices at the NYSE on the close of Spotify’s IPO launch three days ago. “The sum of the unrealized valuation gain (net) and the gain on the sale of shares (net) to be recorded for […]
Messina, metà impiegati di un Comune indagati per assenteismo
Ventitré dipendenti su 40 del Comune di Ficarra ( Messina) sono indagati per assenteismo. Un numero record emerso da un'inchiesta della Procura di Patti che ha portato alla sospensione dalla funzione per 16 persone. Il provvedimento cautelare … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
Pensioni e lavoro: Salvini cerca punta sull’intesa con M5s, le novità
Proseguono le consultazioni al Quirinale per la formazione del nuovo governo e a riportare al centro del dibattito politico anche il tema della riforma #Pensioni, uno dei punti programmatici in comune con il Movimento 5 stelle di Luigi Di Maio e tra i temi più […]
Cambridge Analytica misused information from as many as 5.6 million Indians
The Cambridge Analytica scandal, or what has been termed as #FacebookGate, just got a new chapter added to its odyssey. In a report where Facebook was updating users on their plans to restrict data access on the social platform, they also revealed that up to […]
Fetch adds two new robots to its warehouse automation army
Fetch Robotics capped off 2017 with a $25 million Series B, bringing its total up to $48 million. It’s clear that investors are taken with the San Jose-based automation company. By most accounts, increasingly automated warehouses are undergoing a staffing crunch, and Fetch offers the […]
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, February 2018
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, February 2018 The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $57.6 billion in February, up $0.9 billion from $56.7 billion in January, revised. February exports were […]