Stock traded considerably lower than $100bn the ride-hailing app had hoped to achieve Uber’s hopes of a surge in the price of its shares have fallen flat, as investors gave the taxi-hailing app’s eagerly anticipated stock market float a frosty reception by sending the shares below their launch price. Uber put a price of $45 on […]
‘Between 2,000 and 5,000 is the estimate’ The Department of Defense isn’t sure how many websites it runs. Stars and Stripes reportsthat at an event last month, US Army Colonel Paul Haverstick, the acting director of the Defense Media Activity at Fort Meade, Maryland said that the number of websites that the Pentagon runs is “undefined.” The Defense […]
The Nest ecosystem is dead. Nest accounts are dead. Nest’s privacy firewall is dead. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Don’t be distracted by the shiny new “Nest” smart display that was just announced: Nest died at Google I/O 2019. “Google Nest” is the new reality now, where Nest is no longer a standalone company but instead is a sub-brand (not […]
Georgia ACLU plans to file a robust challenge to the law later this summer On Tuesday, after weeks of suspense-less delay, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a six week abortion ban into law as he’d long promised. The bill, slated to go into effect in January 2020, includes an incendiary provision declaring “unborn children are a class […]
The platform prioritized growth at all costs rather than a set of values The latest Facebook struggles are clear proof that past a certain scale, tech’s “Move fast and break things” motto is not actually breaking things—it’s breaking people, and it needs to be stopped. This comes following The New York Times op-ed by Facebook co-founder Chris […]
