More than 600 gigabytes of files left unsecured on an Amazon server by third-party communications company BroadSoft were leaked last month. The four million Time Warner records contain the personal details of its customers, and include usernames, email address and financial transaction information, according to Gizmodo. “Certain non-financial information of legacy Time Warner Cable customers […]
Read moreSutter Health thinks it has found a way to use “predictive analytics” to cut down on costs and improve patient care — and it is willing to pay for it. The non-for-profit health system is planning a partnership with a start-up called Qventus at two dozen of its California hospitals and 30 of its pharmacies […]
Read moreOptions traders appear to be betting that a big tech deal will fall apart. Shares of NXP Semiconductors jumped in October after Qualcomm agreed to buy the company, and the stock has recently risen above the $110 per share bid price. While the stock has risen this week, sentiment in the options market was bearish […]
Read moreThe stock market was kind to Mark Zuckerberg this summer. So was life in general. Facebook shares jumped 14 percent in the past three months, as of Thursday’s close, the best performance among the five most valuable U.S. technology companies. Apple and Microsoft each rose about 7 percent, While Amazon and Alphabet dropped. As Labor […]
Read moreNearly a week after Hurricane Harvey swamped her home in northeast Houston, Mimi Wilson is pondering how to start a new life with nothing – no house, no car and no paycheck after missing work. She has applied for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Her priority: moving her two young daughters out […]
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The U.S. economy created 156,000 jobs in August, falling short of the 180,000 number economists expected, while the unemployment rate edged higher to 4.4 percent. Despite the miss, markets were higher at the open on Friday, and according to hedge fund analytics tool Kensho, stocks could rally through the month of September. In the past, […]
Read moreThe United States must make it easier to encourage legal immigration if it wishes to see the economy grow, JPMorgan strategist David Kelly told CNBC on Friday. “We have a labor force problem,” Kelly said on “Squawk on the Street.” “That’s part of what’s slowing the labor side of the economy down. We just don’t […]
Read moreFacebook doesn’t only know what its 2 billion users “Like.” It now knows where 7.5 billion humans live, everywhere on earth, to within 15 feet. The company has created a data map of the planet’s entire human population by combining government census numbers with information it’s obtained from space satellites, according to Janna Lewis, Facebook’s […]
Read moreItaly will follow suit with France and elect a pro-European government in next year’s general election, because to think there is an alternative is an “illusion”, the chief executive of Generali told CNBC. “As you have seen the result of the election in France was a very pro-Europe result. I think the same thing will […]
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TODAY’S labour market report showed that the American economy created 156,000 net new jobs in August. That was a bit less than expected, but payrolls are still growing comfortably faster than the working-age population. Despite having created over 2m jobs in the last year, pushing unemployment below 4.5% for the last five months, wage growth […]
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