Google memo lays out plan to fire employees out of compliance with vaccine rules: report
Leadership at the Mountain View, California, tech behemoth circulated a memo that reportedly showed the steps that the company will take before firing employees who are out of compliance with the company’s vaccine policy.
Lenders use AI to offer low credit score personal loans to borrowers
Fintech lenders are increasing their use of AI to go beyond the traditional credit scores and offer personal loans to borrowers with lower credit scores.
Better.com CEO tells about 900 employees they’ve been let go during pre-holiday Zoom call: report
Video emerged on social media that showed the CEO of Better.com, a digital mortgage company, informing about 900 employees that they have been terminated.
Spotify removes some comedians’ work from streaming service
Spotify has removed the work of hundreds of comedians
Is omicron variant encouraging hybrid workplace as the new standard? Okta CEO responds
Okta CEO Todd McKinnon joins 'The Claman Countdown' to detail how his identity cloud company is rolling with the punches of the pandemic.
Facebook’s Metaverse plans raise concerns over free speech, privacy rights
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted the company’s plans last month to build a virtual reality “metaverse” to supplant the internet, he proclaimed that users of this platform will be able to do “almost anything” they could imagine.
New Jersey plane crash kills Blue Origin astronaut who flew with William Shatner
A Blue Origin astronaut who flew on a Blue Origin rocket with William Shatner has died in a New Jersey plane crash.
Xfinity, Verizon, T-Mobile outages reported in San Francisco, other cities
Comcast customers reported Xfinity outages in major cities across the U.S. on Tuesday morning.
Ford, GM profits fall as sales drop due to chip shortage
The global computer chip shortage cut into third-quarter profits at both Ford and General Motors, with both companies having to temporarily close factories
Tech entrepreneur stirs debate after calling men who take 6 months paternity leave ‘losers’
A prominent investor and entrepreneur stirred online debate Wednesday after calling fathers with important jobs “losers” if they take six months of paternity leave for a newborn.
Facebook increasingly suppresses political movements it deems dangerous
Facebook adopted earlier this year to stop what it calls "harmful communities" from gaining traction on its platform.
Klobuchar, Grassley seek to block Big Tech from promoting own products over competition
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., on Thursday unveiled a bill blocking Big Tech companies from promoting their own products over others.
Microsoft folds LinkedIn social network in China
Microsoft said it would shut the Chinese version of LinkedIn after facing challenging internet regulations from the Chinese government
Apple studying potential of AirPods as health device
Apple is studying ways to make AirPods into a health device, including enhancing hearing, reading body temperature and monitoring posture
Facebook Whistleblower’s Claims Test SEC’s Reach
The controversy over what Facebook Inc. has said about social and emotional hazards stemming from its products could become a test of regulators’ growing interest in policing corporate risks that hurt reputations more than profits.
Facebook won’t say why it took down then reinstated ‘Reopen California Schools,' group's founder says
Facebook took down, then reinstated a page run by parents critical of school COVID policies but never explained its actions to the administrators, Jonathan Zacherson, founder of “Reopen California Schools” told Fox Business.
‘We’re in a Hurry.’ A new CEO scrambles to cope with a global chip crisis.
Months before Cristiano Amon started as CEO of Qualcomm Inc., QCOM -1.01% he already was at work on his first crisis. To solve it, he sat in a mostly empty meeting room in Taipei and pleaded with executives from one of the world’s biggest semiconductor makers for more chips.
Singapore set to increase control over online content
Singapore's legislature approved a bill that targets foreign influence campaigns by giving the country’s government new powers over internet content, despite criticism that officials could use them to stifle dissent.
Workplace automation bots gain clout amid COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic-fueled growth in the adoption of software robots designed to ease routine office work is making one task a lot easier for chief information officers: selling the idea to their corporate bosses.
US government to probe Zoom deal over China ties
A Justice Department-led panel is investigating Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s deal to buy an American customer-service software company, citing potential national-security risks posed by the U.S. videoconferencing giant’s China ties.