The Google logo is seen on January 8, 2020 at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. ROBYN BECK / AFP Google will now pay news publishers directly to license their content, in a change of course for the Internet giant. The company said Thursday it would …
Read More »Wirecard files for insolvency after former CEO arrested in $ 2 billion scandal
The digital payments company said in a statement Thursday that it had opened legal proceedings in Munich “due to impending insolvency and over-indebtedness.” The company’s shares, which have lost 90% of their value in less than a week, were suspended on the Frankfurt stock exchange. Markus Braun, the Austrian CEO …
Read More »Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun arrested in Germany
Munich prosecutors confirmed that Braun, the former Wirecard CEO, was arrested on suspicion of inflating the digital payments company’s balance sheet and sales through bogus transactions to make it more attractive to investors and customers. Prosecutors said Braun may have acted cooperatively with other perpetrators. Braun will be released Tuesday …
Read More »Zoom Names Jason Lee Director of Information Security for Salesforce
As Zoom approaches the end of its self-imposed 90-day period to establish a comprehensive privacy and security policy, the company announced Wednesday that it has hired a Salesforce chief security officer. Jason Lee, who has spent almost three years as senior vice president of security operations at Salesforce, joins Zoom …
Read More »German payments company Wirecard files for insolvency
An illuminated logo is found outside the Wirecard headquarters in the Aschheim district of Munich, Germany. Michaela Handrek-Rehle | Bloomberg | fake pictures Wirecard will file an application to open insolvency proceedings in the Munich district court, the company said Thursday. The company said in a brief statement that management …
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