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It was only ten months ago that Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, ditched his standard gray T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers for a business suit and tie, and headed off on a road trip across America. With his wife and baby in tow, he visited small towns, family farms, black churches, and struggling factories. What was his purpose? Meanwhile the board at Facebook has been selling your information.
Uber recently published videos of passengers riding in self-driving cars. None of them were paying attention or noticed anything outside the car. Now with the accident in Tempe, Arizona, one of those Uber cars struck and killed a pedestrian as she was pushing her bicycle across the street. The so-called safety driver wasn’t paying attention! This fatal accident should be a wake-up call.
Facebook is at a crossroads. Its survival as the “king of social media” is, for the first time, in question. Yet, its management doesn’t get it. Can Facebook overcome this?
In the world of business, there are the three major hallmarks of good management: Fairness; Transparency; and Responsibility to the public. Now, consider America’s biggest tech companies. Do any of them have even one of these traits? Let’s take a quick look at some of the most recent examples of misbehavior by Big Tech.
Facebook’s management doesn’t seem to understand why daily use on the site is continually falling. It may be because of all of the false promises Facebook has made about fixing problems like fake news and conspiracy videos. Facebook would do well to remember the fall of Myspace and what happened to Nokia and Blackberry.
Your smartphone can give away more information than you think
YouTube’s new “plan” to combat conspiracy theories is to fact check videos using various third party links. The problem is that those links are going to potentially unreliable sources.
The Royal Academy of Engineering study on internet health devices
The most valuable thing that a business owns is its brand reputation. Simply put, it’s the foundation: What people think of the company. So, who’s on top? And who’s not? The brands that I’m going to tell you about are not necessarily the ones doing the most business. They’re the ones we respect and admire the most.
28 years ago the promise of the internet was grand: nothing less than the free exchange of ideas and information. Now we have a whole generation of people who have never lived without it. So How are they doing?
Facebook has seen its fair share of bad news lately. Between fake election news and surveys on whether to let pedophiles use the site, it seems users are done with it. Now, a new study shows just how much support Facebook is losing.
You know that old saying, “Bad news travels fast?” Well as it turns out, fake news travels even faster. And no, it’s not the Russians’ fault. What if the problem is us? Here’s what researchers at MIT found.
In the history of business, there’s never been anything like Amazon. The closest you can come is probably Sears. They revolutionized retail a hundred years ago. Back then, Sears called itself “The World’s largest Store.” But it’s Amazon that’s uniquely poised to become the world’s largest business.
Lawmakers in Rhode island are looking to raise a little extra revenue by taxing internet porn. If you haven’t heard this story yet, you can hear it now.
If you haven’t heard this Facebook story, about its bizarre and dysfunctional staff, and its apparent catering to pedophiles, then you have to listen to this.
If you’re using a new smartphone, it’s operating on a 4G LTE network. It’s about ten times faster than old 3G systems from five years ago. And now, both Verizon and AT&T are ready to roll out the fifth generation network known as 5G technology. Here’s what lies ahead in the technology and how it can affect you.
Millions of people look to Uber or Lyft to get them home after a night of partying. The bad news is, sexual predators have discovered how easy it is to pose as an Uber or Lyft driver and take advantage of women. Do we need to think twice before getting into a seemingly trustworthy driver’s car?
For decades, America’s tech giants and their celebrity CEOs have literally basked in a warm glow of consumer trust and satisfaction. But the days of trust are gone. And Big Tech is in big trouble.
News and newspaper websites used to be free. Now news organizations are starting to make their stories less accessible, unless you are willing to pay.
