Intel's search for a CEO is over. The company announced on Thursday morning that Robert "Bob" Swan, who has been serving as interim CEO for much of the last year, will be its chief executive moving forward. He will also be joining the company's board. Before acting as interim CEO, Swan was Intel's CFO, a…
“SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!” promises the seller of “The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organisation” (WTO). The magic of e-commerce means that the doorstopper can be exported from America to Tajikistan for a cool $35.95 (plus shipping). A new initiative on digital trade at the WTO strives to add to the laws and policies described…
Despite a series of embarrassing scandals and calls for users to defect, Facebook is more popular than ever worldwide. Facebook said Wednesday that it had 1.52 billion daily active users in the fourth quarter, up 9% from the same period last year. The news comes after two days of bad press for the company, which…
Facebook has shut down an iOS app that installed intrusive data-gathering software on people's phones, just hours after vigorously defending the project. TechCrunch on Tuesday reported that Facebook had set up an app, named Facebook Research, that paid people up to $20 a month to install a VPN that tracked their data. Among others, it…
IN A CIVIL lawsuit in 2017 an employee of Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, was found to have swiped one of the arms of Tappy, a phone-testing robot owned by T-Mobile, an American wireless carrier, and with it the smart proprietary technology in its fingertip. A jury in Seattle ordered Huawei to pay compensation of…
The polar vortex that’s sending a blast of extreme arctic cold air down to the Midwest this week is likely to leave Chicago residents feeling like they living in some of the coldest places on Earth, including the South Pole and Mt. Everest. According to the National Weather Service, the temperature in Chicago is forecast…
Apple has been carefully cultivating its image as the prince of privacy in Silicon Valley over recent months. The iPhone maker has tried to cement its reputation as the defender of its users' data through speeches, thinly disguised attacks on rivals like Facebook, and giant Las Vegas billboards at the CES conference. But on Monday,…
MORE THAN 300 people are missing, with many already confirmed dead, after millions of tons of muddy sludge engulfed homes and roads when a tailings dam at a mine in Brazil collapsed suddenly on January 25th. The dam near Brumadinho is owned by Vale, Brazil’s largest mining company. The cause of its bursting is being…
We’re back in your inbox after taking last Monday off to honor MLK. If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed that lately I’ve written less about crypto and more about cannabis. I spent much of the last two months working on my new cover story for Fortune’s February issue, “The Marijuana Billionaire…
President Donald Trump slammed the former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Twitter on Monday, a day after Schultz announced he was considering a presidential run. "Howard Schultz doesn't have the 'guts' to run for President!" Trump tweeted. "Watched him on @60Minutes last night and I agree with him that he is not the 'smartest person.'"…
