Facebook shares fell in pre-market trading on Monday, after Diageo and Starbucks became the latest companies to stop advertising on social media platforms for ineffective surveillance of hate speech. Shares of the social networking company FB, -2.48%, which operates Instagram and WhatsApp, in addition to its eponymous platform, fell more …
Read More »5 things you need to know before the stock market opens on June 29, 2020
1. Dow will recover after 730 point drop on Friday Dow futures pointed to a gain of more than 200 points in Monday’s opening, a rebound after the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 730 points, or 2.8%, on Friday, knocking down the blue chips 3.3% last week . After initial …
Read More »The electronic card scandal casts a shadow on governance
The Wirecard logo is seen at the headquarters of the payment company in Aschheim, near Munich, southern Germany, on June 24, 2020. Christof Stache | AFP via Getty Images Wirecard’s dramatic fall from grace has put corporate governance and industry regulation in Germany firmly in the spotlight. The Munich-based payment …
Read More »Quibi’s fall: how did a crashed $ 1.75 billion Netflix rival crash so fast? The | Television and radio
northEarly three months ago, in early April, the $ 1.75 billion content experiment known as Quibi came out of its rocky and heavily maligned promotional campaign upon large-scale launch. The service offered a tsunami of celebrity-led shows segmented into “quick snacks” (hence “qui-bi”) of 10 minutes or less: a talk …
Read More »The Google Phone application has a function that lets you know WHY a company is calling
It is one thing to know who is calling or if it is likely to be a spam call, but now some Android users on the Google Phone app will know much more about why a particular company bothers to call them. Google recently updated its phone app to include …
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