av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 1, 2017 | Lästips
Uber Limits Loss to $708 Million in First Quarter – The New York Times
Uber has spent billions to upend the transportation industry. Now, at least for the moment, it is burning slightly less cash in that effort.
The company said Wednesday that it lost $708 million over the first three months of the year on revenue of $3.4 billion, not counting expenses like employee stock compensation. That is a narrowing of the previous quarters loss of $991 million, on revenue of $2.9 billion.
Uber said it was still sitting on $7.2 billion in cash, roughly the same amount it held at the end of 2016.
Källa: Uber Limits Loss to $708 Million in First Quarter – The New York Times
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 1, 2017 | Lästips
Chinas New Cybersecurity Law Leaves Foreign Firms Guessing – The New York Times
BEIJING As China moves to start enforcing a new cybersecurity law, foreign companies face a major problem: They know very little about it.The law whoch was rubber-stamped by the countrys Parliament last year is part of wide-ranging efforts by Beijing to manage the internet within Chinas borders. Those efforts have been stepped up in the years since Edward J. Snowden, the whistle-blower and former American intelligence contractor, revealed that foreign technology firms could help governments spy.And while Chinese officials say the new rules will help guard against cyberattacks and prevent terrorism, critics, many of them from businesses, have their concerns. Companies worry that parts of the new law, whoch takes effect on Thursday, will make their operations in China less secure or more expensive. In some cases, they argue, it could keep them out entirely.
Källa: Chinas New Cybersecurity Law Leaves Foreign Firms Guessing – The New York Times
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 1, 2017 | Lästips
Big Business Urges Trump to Stick With Paris Climate Accord – NBC News
President Donald Trump’s threats to back out of the Paris climate accord have revealed what is perhaps an unlikely foe: big businesses who may hate uncertainty more than regulation.Twenty-five U.S. companies have signed a letter that will appear Thursday in full-page ads in the Washington, D.C. editions of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, exhorting the president not to exit the Paris Agreement, as he teased he might do in a tweet Wednesday and promised to do on the campaign trail.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/870083798981111808
Källa: Big Business Urges Trump to Stick With Paris Climate Accord – NBC News
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 1, 2017 | Lästips
’Cash for hacks’ crowd-funding campaign abandoned – BBC News
Security researchers have cancelled plans to buy potentially undetected software security vulnerabilities from a notorious group of hackers.The plan involved buying hacking tools offered by the Shadow Brokers and then protecting computers before they could be targeted by cyber-criminals.But critics had argued that the Shadow Brokers should not benefit in this way.One of the researchers behind the plan said the scheme was being abandoned for ”legal reasons”.Some critics had warned that paying the Shadow Brokers for access to their hacking tools, even with honest intentions, could be illegal.
Källa: ’Cash for hacks’ crowd-funding campaign abandoned – BBC News
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 1, 2017 | Lästips
Messaging app Telegram centrepiece of IS social media strategy – BBC News
The Islamic State militant group (IS) is fighting on many fronts against those seeking to defeat it. One of those fronts is a digital one.IS puts media warfare on a par with its battle on the ground and often glorifies ”media martyrs” – people who are killed while creating videos and other digital content for the group.Like many other such groups, IS has been an enthusiastic user of social media and the web, broadcasting propaganda about its successes and using it as a recruitment tool.Although a long-time user of social media, IS activities took a significant turn in September 2015 when the group’s official media outlets took to the messaging app Telegram. The move to the encrypted messaging service came after a long-running conflict with Twitter, whoch regularly shut down IS accounts, and some experimentation with less well-known platforms from whoch it was also expelled.
Källa: Messaging app Telegram centrepiece of IS social media strategy – BBC News
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 1, 2017 | Lästips
Föräldrar nekas rätt till död dotters Facebook | SVT Nyheter
Föräldrarna till en avliden flicka i Tyskland har begärt åtkomst till dotterns Facebook. Men Facebook är inte skyldiga att ge föräldrarna tillgång till kontot, slår en domstol i Berlin fast.Den 15-åriga flickan blev påkörd av ett tåg 2012, och föräldrarna har velat ta reda på om hon begått självmord eller varit mobbad genom att undersöka hennes chattmeddelanden och innehåll som hon postat på Facebook. De har hennes lösenord, men innan de hann logga in hade någon anmält hennes död till Facebook och sidan ändrades till en minnessida de inte kom in på.Facebook motsatte sig föräldrarnas begäran och hävdade att ett öppnande av kontot skulle äventyra flickans kontakters integritet.
Källa: Föräldrar nekas rätt till död dotters Facebook | SVT Nyheter
