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Business experts think Uber’s profitability pledge is misleading - Business Insider - 12 février 2020
Uber excited investors and analysts last week when it predicted it would hit "profitability" by the end of this year.
But the company’s definition of "profitability" doesn’t accord with standard accounting and leaves out a whole mess of expenses.
The company’s preferred profitability measure — adjusted EBITDA — is (...)
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Alphabet breaks $1 trillion market cap for first time ever | Markets Insider - 17 janvier 2020
Google parent company Alphabet on Thursday hit a $1 trillion market valuation for the first time ever.
Alphabet joins Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon in a small group of US companies that have reached the milestone. Microsoft and Apple are still valued at more than $1 trillion, but Amazon is not.
The record for (...)
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La valeur d’Alphabet dépasse les 1000 Mds$ pour la première fois - Business Insider France - 17 janvier 2020
Pour la première fois de son histoire, Alphabet, la société mère de Google, a dépassé les 1 000 milliards de valeur à Wall Street à New York, devenant ainsi la quatrième société américaine à atteindre ce cap. L’action d’Alphabet a gagné jusqu’à 0,8% jeudi 16 janvier finissant la séance à 1451 dollars. La progression est de 8,3 % (...)
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Apple CEO Tim Cook made $11.6 million in the company’s last fiscal year — 200 times more than its median employee - 10 janvier 2020
Apple CEO Tim Cook brought in just shy of $11.6 million in total compensation during the company’s 2019 fiscal year, Apple said in its annual proxy statement Friday.
That hefty pay package is about 200 times more than the median Apple employee earned in compensation during the same time period, the company noted. (...)
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Ring says it will introduce new security features after hackers broke into a camera in an 8-year-old’s bedroom, where they could watch and talk to the child - 4 janvier 2020
A Tennessee family said their 8-year-old daughter was being watched after the Ring security camera installed in her bedroom was hacked. The hacker had watched and talked to her over the device, taunting her that he was Santa Claus, they said.
Ring said the hackers obtained the family’s Ring account login (...)
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Une technologie française de reconnaissance faciale échoue à reconnaître le moindre visage parmi 900 000 véhicules qui passent chaque jour à New York - 1er janvier 2020
Ce devait être un test fiable pour identifier les contrevenants à New York grâce à la reconnaissance faciale. Mais un an après, c’est un échec français. La technologie de l’entreprise Idemia, née du rapprochement de Morpho, filiale de Safran, avec Oberthur Technologies, n’a pas été en mesure de reconnaître le moindre visage (...)
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The 2020s could be an apocalyptic decade for Wall Street as artificial intelligence takes over the most popular jobs in finance - 16 décembre 2019
Jobs in banking are some of the most sought after for job seekers — but plenty of roles may not be around much longer.
Algorithms that model prices or build portfolios could wipe out 6 million high-paying jobs in finance, according to Cornell University professor Marcos Lopez de Prado.
Lopez de Prado told the US (...)
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Jeff Bezos says employee activists are wrong and Silicon Valley firms should feel comfortable doing business with the US military - 9 décembre 2019
Jeff Bezos says employee activists are wrong and Silicon Valley firms should feel comfortable doing business with the US military
Bezos said it was the responsibility of management to push back against employee outrage toward military contracts.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos threw his support behind the US Department (...)
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Instagram’s lax privacy practices let a trusted partner track millions of users’ physical locations, secretly save their stories, and flout its rules - 8 août 2019
A combination of configuration errors and lax oversight by Instagram allowed one of the social network’s vetted advertising partners to misappropriate vast amounts of public user data and create detailed records of users’ physical whereabouts, personal bios, and photos that were intended to vanish after 24 hours. (...)
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Over 100 Riot Games employees walked out protesting the company’s policy on forced arbitration after a scathing news report and a lawsuit - 9 mai 2019
More than 100 employee at Los Angeles video game studio Riot Games walked out of work Monday afternoon to protest the company’s forced arbitration policy for workplace disputes.
The protest comes after eight months of turmoil at the company, which has faced numerous accusations of fostering a hostile, sexist work (...)
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Google, siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove widely-criticized government app which lets men track women and control their travel - 4 mars 2019
Google has declined to remove from its app store a Saudi government app which lets men track women and control where they travel, on the grounds that it meets all their terms and conditions.
Google reviewed the app "” called Absher "” and concluded that it does not violate any agreements, and can therefore remain (...)
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Leaked memo spells out Facebook’s new ’ground rules’ restricting employee discussions about politics and religion - 16 janvier 2019
Facebook is introducing new rules limiting the types of discussions about politics and religion allowed within the workplace as the company continues to grapple with the fallout from a string of company scandals and the increasingly fractious political climate emerging within many Silicon Valley companies.
In an (...)
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’Facebook has a black people problem’ : A former employee posted a 2,500-word memo about racial discrimination at the company - 28 novembre 2018
Former Facebook employee Mark S. Luckie’s goodbye note starts bluntly : "Facebook has a black people problem."
Luckie, the company’s strategic partner manager for influencers before quitting in November, sent a 2,500-word memo to his colleagues earlier in the month before posting it publicly on Facebook on Tuesday. (...)
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Venezuela is releasing an ID card that can track and punish citizens - 18 novembre 2018
Venezuela is rolling out a new, smart-card ID known as the "carnet de la patria," or "fatherland card," manufactured by Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp.
The ID transmits data about cardholders to government computer servers, and is increasingly linked to subsidized food, health, and other social programs most (...)
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La Chine surveille l’activité cérébrale et les émotions de ses employés "” et cette technologie aurait fait bondir les bénéfices d’une entreprise de 315M$ - 30 avril 2018
L’armée et des entreprises chinoises expérimentent la surveillance des activités cérébrales et des émotions de leurs employés.
Cette "technologie de surveillance émotionnelle" permet aux employeurs d’identifier les changements d’humeur pour ajuster les heures de pause et les tâches des employés, voir les renvoyer chez eux. (...)
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22 eerie photos show how China uses facial... - 14 avril 2018
22 eerie photos show how China uses facial recognition to track its citizens as they travel, shop "” and even use toilet paper
There are 170 million surveillance cameras in China. By 2020, the country hopes to have 570 million "“ that’s nearly one camera for every two citizens.
At the same time, China is a building (...)
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Facial recognition tech catches fugitive among huge crowd at Jacky Cheung concert in China - 14 avril 2018
Police have arrested a fugitive in southeast China after spotting him with facial recognition technology among about 50,000 people attending a pop concert, a news website reported.
The wanted man was detained while attending a show performed by the Hong Kong pop star Jacky Cheung last week in Nanchang in Jiangxi (...)
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A San Francisco, des robots empêchent les sans-abri d’installer leurs campements - 14 décembre 2017
À San Francisco, des robots autonomes qui luttent contre la criminalité sont utilisés pour patrouiller les parkings, les stades et les campus d’entreprises tech pour tenir à distance les sans-abris.
Le San Francisco Business Times a rapporté la semaine dernière que le SPCA de San Francisco, un groupe de protection des (...)
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Consumer-goods giant Unilever has been hiring employees using brain games and artificial intelligence "” and it’s a huge success. - 10 octobre 2017
Unilever has used artificial intelligence to screen all entry-level employees for the past year. Candidates play neuroscience-based games to measure inherent traits, then have recorded interviews analyzed by AI. The company considers the experiment a big success and will continue it indefinitely. For the past (...)
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Apple a retiré l’appli du New York Times de l’App Store à la demande du gouvernement chinois - 1er mai 2017
Apple a retiré l’appli du New York Times (NYT) de son App Store en Chine, après "une requête de la part des autorités chinoise", a annoncé le New York Times.
Apple a retiré les applis en version anglaise et version chinoise de l’App Store chinois le 23 décembre, a dit le quotidien américain.
D’après le cabinet d’analyses (...)
