Markets have been mixed in their response to President Trump's combative State of the Union address while investors shift their attention to any signs for the economy from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. European shares sunk lower after disappointing results from BNP Paribas and Daimler. The Australian dollar plunged 1% after the central bank opened…
IN MOST job interviews, candidates gush and enthuse about the institution they hope to join. The World Bank’s board can expect to hear few warm words from David Malpass, whom President Donald Trump is expected to nominate this week to lead it. In his current role handling international affairs at America’s Treasury, Mr Malpass has…
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is getting questions from two key U.S. House Democrats about a bug that let users of its FaceTime video-chat service listen in on people they contacted even before the person accepted or rejected the call. The flaw is “a significant privacy violation,” the leaders of the House Energy and…
Alphabet beat Wall Street revenue targets for its 2018 holiday quarter, yet its stock sank 3% in after-hours trading on Monday. So why did the numbers shake investors? Colin Sebastian, a senior analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co, told Business Insider on Monday that the "stock was weak due to lower than anticipated operating…
ON FEBRUARY 4th 2004 a young website with a baby-blue banner was born. Founded in a dormitory at Harvard, TheFacebook.com tapped into people’s instinctive desire to see and be seen. Few guessed how successful it would become. In 2008 Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who had bought the social-networking rival MySpace, called Facebook the “flavour…
Once a Facebook booster and early advisor to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, well-known tech investor Roger McNamee has changed his tune. Facebook is, in fact, a privacy train wreck, he says, and its leader appears to care more about growth than user privacy. McNamee is so worried that he wrote a book, Zucked: Waking Up to…
President Donald Trump has beenteasing potential bombshells that he may drop during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, a makeup date agreed after the government shutdown scuppered his Plan A. Trump has publicly mulled using the speech to declare a national emergency over border wall funding, and to confirmed a new summit…
THE ANNOUNCEMENT in November of the editing of the genomes of two embryos that are now baby girls, by He Jiankui, a Chinese DNA-sequencing expert—brought much righteous, and rightful, condemnation. But it also brought a lot of tut-tutting from the outside world about how this sort of thing was to be expected in a place…
Super Bowl commercials have proven to be a source of entertainment during one of television’s biggest events of the year. General Motors, however, is trying to stop a commercial before it appears during the big game, as the Associated Press reports. Unifor, a general trade union based in Canada, has pre-released a 30-second ad titled…
President Donald Trump's public insults against his top intelligence chiefs and apparent unwillingness to accept assessments that contradict his own beliefs pose a dire threat to US national security and create a goldmine for foreign intelligence services to exploit, current and former intelligence officials told INSIDER. Trump's latest attacks came after US intelligence leaders, including…
