Mark Zuckerberg’s abrupt Wednesday declaration of a new “privacy vision” for social networking was for many people a sort of Rorschach test. Looked at one way, the manifesto read as an apology of sorts for Facebook’s history of privacy transgressions, and it suggested that the social network would de-emphasize its huge public social network in favor …
Category: Бізнес
Бізнесові новини. Бізнес (також відомий як підприємство або фірма) є установою, що бере участь у виробництві продукції, торгівлі товарами чи послугах споживачам. Компанії – найбільш поширені у капіталістичній економіці, де більшість з них приватні та засновані задля одержання прибутку, отже збільшення багатства їхнім власникам
Eavesdropping on Rare Birds
In a technology that’s been heralded as a breakthrough in conservation, remote recording devices are ‘eavesdropping’ on one of the rarest birds in New Zealand to monitor how they are adjusting after being released into a protected reserve. Faith Lapidus reports. …
Geneticists Help Investigators Solve Cold Cases
U.S. scientists say they are using a unique method of analyzing DNA and researching genealogy to help investigators solve decades-old murder cases. Maxim Moskalkov visited Parabon Nanolabs in Reston, Virginia to learn more. …
Powell: Fed Sticks With ‘Wait-and-See’ Approach on Rate Hikes
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Friday that the healthy U.S. economy and low inflation are allowing the central bank to take a “patient, wait-and-see approach” on interest rates. Speaking at Stanford University, Powell said the Fed is well along in its effort to normalize Fed operations by scaling back the extraordinary efforts it employed …
US Adds Just 20K Jobs; Unemployment Dips
Hiring tumbled in February, with U.S. employers adding just 20,000 jobs, the smallest monthly gain in nearly a year and a half. The slowdown in hiring, though, might have been depressed by harsh winter weather and the partial shutdown of the government. Last month’s weak gain came after employers had added a blockbuster 311,000 jobs …
Trump: China Trade Deal Must Be ‘Very Good,’ or No Deal
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will not sign a trade deal with China unless it is a “very good deal.” Trump made the comments Friday as he left the White House to tour tornado damage in the southern U.S. state of Alabama. The United States and China have been battling over trade tariffs since …
Warren: Tech Giants Have `Too Much Power,’ Need Breakup
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says the technology industry is too heavily concentrated among the biggest companies and she has a plan to address that. The Massachusetts senator is proposing legislation targeting tech giants with annual revenue of $25 billion or more. It would limit their ability to expand and break up what she calls …
SpaceX Crew Capsule Leaves International Space Station
The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule has undocked from the International Space Station. The Dragon pulled away from the station early Friday, and an Atlantic Ocean splashdown is expected Friday morning. The Dragon brought supplies and equipment to the space station where it stayed five days as astronauts conducted tests and inspected the Dragon’s cabin. The …
Longest Bull Market Looks to Keep Going
Wall Street has rewarded its most patient investors handsomely over the past 10 years. Is there more to come? The S&P 500, the U.S. market’s benchmark index, has gained about 309 percent since bottoming out at 676.53 points in March 2009 during the Great Recession, according to FactSet. The index is now 5.4 percent below …
IMF Comments on ‘Complex’ Venezuela Situation
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday called Venezuela one of the most “complex situations” it had ever seen. IMF spokesman Gerry Rice described Venezuela and its economy as a combination of “food and nutrition crises, hyperinflation, a destabilized exchange rate, debilitating human capital and physical productive capacity, and a very complicated debt situation.” …
Facebook’s Vision of Future? Looks Like Chinese App WeChat
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the social media company in a new direction by focusing on messaging. Chinese tech giant Tencent got there years ago with its app WeChat. Zuckerberg outlined his vision to give people ways to communicate privately, by stitching together Facebook’s various services so users can contact each other across all …
Microsoft Says Iran-Linked Hackers Targeted Businesses
Microsoft has detected cyberattacks linked to Iranian hackers that targeted thousands of people at more than 200 companies over the past two years. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday that the hacking campaign stole corporate secrets and wiped data from computers. Microsoft told the Journal the cyberattacks affected oil-and-gas companies and makers …
Facebook’s Vision of Future Looks a Lot Like China’s WeChat
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the social media company in a new direction by focusing on messaging. Chinese tech giant Tencent got there years ago with its app WeChat. Zuckerberg outlined his vision to give people ways to communicate privately, by stitching together Facebook’s various services so users can contact each other across all …
НБУ назвав 4 причини зміцнення гривні
Національний банк України 7 березня відзначив, що «курс гривні під впливом ринкових факторів зміцнюється упродовж останніх тижнів», і назвав причини такої тенденції. За даними регулятора, це – сприятлива зовнішня цінова кон’юнктура для товарів українського експорту, зокрема аграрної і металургійної продукції, і стабільні надходження експортної виручки; – наближення строків сплати річних податків до державного бюджету, що …
China’s Huawei Sues US Government Over Ban
Chinese tech giant Huawei has sued the U.S. government, arguing that legislation Congress passed last year restricting its business in the United States is “unconstitutional.” The case, which analysts see more as a public relations move, is the latest in an intensifying effort by the telecommunications company to fight U.S. security concerns that Huawei argues …
На міжбанку триває обвал долара
На українському міжбанківському валютному ринку триває стрімке посилення національної валюти. Національний банк України викуповує частину надлишкової пропозиції долара, але це лише призупиняє процес. За інформацією профільного сайту «Мінфін», який відстежує перебіг торгів, регулятор купляв американську валюту за 26 гривень 38-40 копійок. Станом на 14:00 «торги почали знижувати активність». «Відбуваються угоди по лотах до 200 – …
Hong Kong Residents Grapple with Tourism Boom
On a recent Sunday afternoon, thousands of shoppers crowded the hallways and stores of the Citygate Outlets shopping mall in Tung Chung, one of Hong Kong’s new town developments just a short train ride from the airport. Some visitors had recently arrived by plane, wheeling luggage with baggage claim tags, although thousands more came for …
НБУ посилив гривню до долара на 28 копійок
Національний банк України встановив на 7 березня курс 26 гривень 48 копійок за долар. Це на 28 копійок менше, ніж попереднього дня. Зараз гривня щодо долара перебуває на рівні липня 2018 року. Свого пікового значення 28 гривень 39 копійок впродовж останнього року долар сягнув 30 листопада 2018 року. Національний банк пояснює тренд на зміцнення гривні, …
NASA Schedules Its First All-Female Spacewalk
The U.S. space agency NASA has confirmed that it has scheduled a spacewalk by two female astronauts for the first time. A NASA spokeswoman told CNN Wednesday, “As currently scheduled, the March 29 spacewalk will be the first with only women.” The spacewalk, staffed by astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will be the second …
Microsoft: Businesses Targeted by Iran-Linked Hackers
Microsoft has detected cyberattacks linked to Iranian hackers that targeted thousands of people at more than 200 companies over the past two years. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday that the hacking campaign stole corporate secrets and wiped data from computers. Microsoft told the Journal the cyberattacks affected oil-and-gas companies and makers …
Zuckerberg Promises Privacy-Friendly Facebook, Sort of
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will start to emphasize new privacy-shielding messaging services, a shift apparently intended to blunt both criticism of the company’s data handling and potential antitrust action. In effect, the Facebook co-founder and CEO promised to transform a service known for devouring the personal information shared by its users. Going forward, he said, …
Gas Scarcity Could Turn Venezuela’s Crisis to Catastrophe
Marin Mendez leaned a shoulder into his rusty Chevy Malibu rolling it forward each time the line of cars inched closer to the pump. Waiting hours to fill up, he says, is the high cost he pays for gasoline that’s nearly free in socialist Venezuela. “You line up to get your pension, line up to …