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Google says it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in a security product it began selling in 2017, but blames the omission on an error. When the company’s Nest Secure home alarm system hit the market, its product information didn’t mention a microphone.
Read MorePalo Alto Networks announced this week that it intends to acquire security startup Demisto for $560 million.
Read MoreMike Calvey was an American success story in Moscow. The U.S. citizen founded Baring Vostok Capital Partners in 1994, investing nearly $3 billion into local companies — including an early bet in Yandex at a valuation of just $15 million (current market cap on the Nasdaq is $10.3 billion).
Read MoreAs we continue to build our community of bookkeepers, accountants, and consultants at Malartu we often look to successful counterparts in the industry who have built communities of their own.
“It is therefore that I am standing here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that I declare the Opportunity mission as complete,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, said at a news conference this week.
It doesn't matter which angle you take here: Intuit is now competing with their customers. And this isn't the first time they have done so, in 2017 Intuit launched TurboTax Live, a service that connects TurboTax customers with EAs and CPAs to help with taxes on demand.
Read MoreThe Securities and Exchange Commission has brought suit against Gene Daniel Levoff, who was Apple's senior director of corporate law until September 2018. Levoff is accused of using his position to make illegal trades of Apple shares.
Read MoreAmazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from lawmakers, progressive activists and union leaders, who contended that a tech giant did not deserve nearly $3 billion in government incentives.
Read MoreAAA released a study yesterday that found electric cars’ range falls by nearly half on average in temperatures under 20 degrees.
Read MoreSlack announced that it has filed a confidential registration statement with the SEC for what is expected to be a direct listing. This is particularly interesting for three reasons…
Read MoreThis week U.S. regional lender BB&T said it will buy rival SunTrust Banks for about $28 billion in stock.
Read MoreIf you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999, which leaves many crying "tech bubble.”
Read MoreInvestment firm, Analytic Investors, publishes a research paper each year that predicts the winner of the Super Bowl, among other outcomes.
Read MorePandora announced this week that shareholders have approved its $3.5 billion acquisition by SiriusXM.
Management consulting firm, McKinsey and Company, distributes a survey to their network every two years about the changing role of a CFO.
Read MoreFacebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity.
Read MoreAccording to an email obtained by The NY Post, a new firm called Tru Kids Inc. was launched on Sunday, armed with the ownership rights to the Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us trademarks, as well as the company’s Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot.
Read MoreA portion of Spotify's subscription revenue is set aside as payment to artists. Let's call it an "artist pool." This pool is distributed to artists by aggregate play counts. Since the pool is inherently limited, this is like you being paid not just on your performance, but on the performance of your competitors.
The WSJ reports WeWork CEO Adam Neumann made millions by snatching up private stakes in several valuable commercial real estate properties under his own name...then leasing those spaces back to WeWork.
Read MoreYouTube is cracking down hard on young whippersnappers hoping to go viral from dangerous challenges like The Tide Pod or Bird Box Challenge.
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