businessinsider
analyse
Apple has taken down New York Times apps in China after a government request - 1er mai 2017
Apple has removed apps from The New York Times from its app store in China, after "what it said was a request from the Chinese authorities," according to the Times itself.
Apple took down both English and Chinese-language apps from China’s iTunes store on December 23, the Times said.
According to app analytics (...)
analyse
New college professor ’watchlist’ aims to expose professors who ’advance leftist propaganda’ - 25 novembre 2016
A new website is asking students and others to "expose and document" professors who "discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom."
The site, called Professor Watchlist, is not without precedent — predecessors include the now-defunct (...)
analyse
Programmers are having a huge discussion about the unethical and illegal things they’ve been asked to do - 23 novembre 2016
Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It’s called "Code I’m Still Ashamed Of."
In it he recounts a horrible story of being a young programmer who landed a job building a website for a pharmaceutical company. The whole post is worth a read, but the upshot is he was (...)
analyse
The personal information of 191 million US voters has been exposed online - 29 décembre 2015
An independent computer security researcher uncovered a database of information on 191 million voters that is exposed on the open Internet due to an incorrectly configured database, he said on Monday.
The database includes names, addresses, birth dates, party affiliations, phone numbers and emails of voters in (...)
analyse
Facebook quietly tested a Yelp competitor and Yelp’s stock plunged 9% - 16 décembre 2015
Facebook has quietly started testing a new recommendation service that lets users find the top-rated and reviewed local businesses in their area.
The service looks similar to Yelp, which saw its stock plunge nearly 8% this morning. It finished the day down more than (...)
analyse
Some Twitter employees found out they got laid off when their email was disconnected - 14 octobre 2015
Twitter is laying off 8% of its workforce (336 employees) and it seems that some of them found out in a less than ideal way.
Senior software engineer Bart Teeuwisse, whose LinkedIn profile says that he’s been at the company four years, posted on Twitter that he found out this morning when he could no longer log (...)
information
Cisco has an electronic map that it can use to track the location of every employee - 8 octobre 2015
Cisco recently invited Business Insider to its massive San Jose, California, headquarters as part of an invite-only press conference.
During lunch, all the reporters gathered around this giant touchscreen device near the door of one of Cisco’s kitchen.
It lets you track the location of any Cisco employee on (...)
analyse
Apple is working on a new e-commerce system based on your credit card balance - 20 juillet 2015
For a company whose CEO has repeatedly asserted that it is not interested in selling its customer data to advertisers, Apple sure is putting a lot of effort into developing new products that sell customer data to advertisers.
In a patent application filed today, Apple proposes a new e-commerce system that uses a (...)
analyse
Google Wrote An Equation For Deciding Which Engineers Should Get Promoted "” Here’s Why It Failed - 21 novembre 2014
Google is famous for making decisions based on crunching data. In most cases it works for the company, but using algorithms and insights isn’t always the best approach.
That was the lesson Google’s VP of People Analytics, Prasad Setty, shared in an address at the company’s re:Work conference (we first spotted the (...)
information
Google Got 12,000 Requests To Be ’Forgotten’ In The Service’s First Day - 1er juin 2014
Google received 12,000 requests from people seeking to be "forgotten" by the world’s leading search engine on the first day it offered the service, a company spokesman in Germany said Saturday.
The requests, submitted on Friday, came after Google set up an online form to allow Europeans to request the removal of (...)
analyse
Google CEO Larry Page Wants A Place For Experiments - 16 mai 2013
Google CEO Larry Page revealed yesterday a radical vision for a semi-lawless utopia where technologists could experiment with society.
Page was speaking at I/O, Google’s big conference for developers. He took questions from the audience after Google execs delivered a three hour presentation on new products.
In (...)
analyse
Google : We Didn’t Know You Could Patent Round Corners - 13 septembre 2012
Google appears to have been blindsided by the fact that Apple won its lawsuit against Samsung.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, David Lawee, VP of corporate development, says, "We didn’t believe rounded corners were patentable."
He’s taking a small swipe at Apple, but he’s also talking about Google’s failings. He (...)
analyse
Google Gives All Employees Surprise $1,000 Cash Bonus And 10% Raise - 15 novembre 2010
Google has given all of its employees $1,000 cash "holiday bonuses" and 2011 salary increases of at least 10%, a loyal reader tells us.
The 10% company-wide raise will take effect on January 1, 2011.
In addition, Google will also give each employee an additional raise equivalent to 1X the employee’s target bonus (...)
information
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User’s Private Email Account - 2 avril 2010
This is the story of how, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the email accounts of two Harvard Crimson reporters using data obtained from TheFacebook.com’s logs. The details are drawn from a broader investigation of the origins of Facebook, the sourcing of which is described here.
Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark (...)
information
How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004 - 2 avril 2010
This is the story of how, in the summer of 2004, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into a Facebook rival called ConnectU, whose founders had accused him of stealing their idea to build Facebook. The details of this story were developed from a broader investigation of the origins of Facebook. The investigation included (...)
analyse
At Last — The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded - 8 mars 2010
The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004.
Then called "thefacebook.com," the site was an instant hit. Now, six years later, the site has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited (...)
information
analyse
Carol Bartz’s Comp : $1M Salary, $4M Bonus, $18M Grant, 5M Options (YHOO) - 23 janvier 2009
Yahoo (YHOO) will pay its new CEO Carol Bartz an annual base salary of $1 million. Carol’s also eligible for an annual 400% bonus.
She’s also getting stock options for 5,000,000 shares and an equity grant of $18 million of stock, which, given Yahoo’s low share price could be Carol’s real prize. The option vesting is (...)
