March 28th, 2017Driverless vehicles operated by Uber Technologies Inc were back on the road in San Francisco on Monday after one of its self-driving cars crashed in Arizona, the ride-hailing company said.
Uber’s autonomous vehicles in Arizona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, remained grounded but were expected to be operating again soon, according to a…
March 17th, 2017AFP- McDonald’s apologized Thursday after it briefly posted on Twitter a blast criticizing President Donald Trump, which the company blamed on a hack from an external source.
They quickly deleted the tweet and offered an uncharitable appraisal of Trump, saying, “You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to…
March 1st, 2017San Francisco: The University of California, San Francisco on Tuesday laid off 49 information technology (IT) employees and outsourced their work to a company based in India, ending a year-long process that has brought the public university under fire.
The university announced the plan last July as a way to save $30 million over five…
February 1st, 2017Online retail colossus Amazon said it will strengthen its distribution muscle, and create US jobs, by building its first air freight hub, an investment of nearly USD 1.5 billion.
A hub for the company’s growing fleet of Prime Air cargo planes will be built at an airport in northern Kentucky, adding more than 2,000 workers to the…
December 31st, 2016American e-commerce giant Amazon will fly a warehouse at an altitude of around 45,000 feet that would act as a launchpad for drones, with an aim to deliver consignments in a jiffy, media reports said today.
Amazon, after winning a patent for flying the warehouse in the US, announced plans for an “airborne fulfillment center” (AFC)…
December 24th, 2016President elect Donald Trump is pro-business and anti-red tape. But what if your business is red tape? Companies whose technology helps banks and investors cope with the welter of post financial crisis regulations and avoid increasingly hefty fines – a sector known as “regtech” – are sanguine about Trump’s pledge to dismantle some of…
December 22nd, 2016Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is back on the US government’s annual list of “notorious markets” that sell pirated goods. The Office of the US Trade Representative said yesterday that Alibaba’s on-line marketplace Taobao sells “high levels” of counterfeit goods and is slow to respond when companies complain about the…
November 4th, 2016The Trump Campaign has announced buying a $25 million advertisement slots in key battleground states as part of its effort to swing the pendulum in its favour amidst reports that the race to the White House has tightened.
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, himself sent an email to his supporters yesterday announcing…
August 27th, 2016Facebook Inc changed its popular “Trending” feature, which shows users the most-talked about topics of the day, to make it more automated and further eliminate the potential for human bias, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday.
The update is Facebook’s latest attempt in recent months to stress its neutrality as its influence…
April 7th, 2016The White House is declining to offer public support for draft legislation that would empower judges to require technology companies such as Apple Inc to help law enforcement crack encrypted data, sources familiar with the discussions said.
The decision all but assures that the years-long political impasse over encryption will…
March 26th, 2016RENO(NEVADA): A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a Nevada town in what its maker and the state’s governor said Friday was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S.
Flirtey CEO Matt Sweeney said the six-rotor drone flew about a half-mile along a pre-programmed delivery route on…
