So you’ve decided to become an entrepreneur. Whether you’ve recently quit your job or have chosen to turn your side-hustle into a full time business, it’s an exciting time. It can also be very challenging, especially if you’ve never started a business before. Making the right choices now can greatly impact your success down the line, and the last thing… Continue reading "How to Start Your Online Business in 6 Simple Steps"
Apple and Qualcomm are engaged in what will likely be a long and epic legal battle. Apple disputed Qualcomm’s legal right to charge heightened royalties for use of its tech, and Qualcomm requirement that Apple pay a percentage of the iPhone’s revenue in return for the use of Qualcomm patents, and Apple has sued the company in three countries. In the United… Continue reading "Apple vs. Qualcomm Legal Battle: Everything You Need to Know"
Amazon’s ambitious plans to expand the number of cashier-free Amazon Go stores may include opening locations at major airports, Reuters reports. Representatives from two California airports told Reuters of emails and conversations in June with Amazon personnel exploring potential interest in Amazon Go stores in their terminals. Since those initial contacts, however, the process has halted with no further clue… Continue reading "Amazon Scouted Airport Locations for Cashier-free Amazon Go Stores"
The data of as many as 500 million travelers could have been compromised in a breach of Marriott’s Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) database. Marriott says an internal security tool recently alerted the company to the breach, but an investigation showed the unauthorized access began in 2014. The breach only includes the Starwood Preferred Guest loyalty program — guests who booked at a… Continue reading "How To Protect Yourself From Marriott’s Massive Data Breach"
Apple has had a rough few years in the tax department. In 2013, after a massive crackdown on how the company handles taxes, a government subcommittee determined that the company had avoided paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes by pushing profit into Irish subsidiaries. Now, leaked document reveal the company has found a new international tax residency —… Continue reading "Leaked documents reveal Apple’s new shelter for profits is the island of Jersey"
Morgan Wandell, a top executive at Amazon since 2013, has been lured away by Apple as part of its bid to increase scripted programming in the streaming market. With Apple ready to drop as much as $1 billion to develop original programming, according to Business Insider, they hope to become a major player in the industry. Wandell arrived at Amazon… Continue reading "Apple nabs top Amazon executive to helm development of original scripted series"
Apple and Qualcomm are engaged in what will likely be a yearslong and epic battle. Following news that Qualcomm had been charging heightened royalties for use of its tech, as well as reports indicating Qualcomm required Apple to pay a percentage of the iPhone’s revenue in return for the use of Qualcomm patents, Apple has sued the company in three countries. In… Continue reading "Qualcomm seeks to ban the sale and production of iPhones in China"
The fact that the tech industry has too few women is no secret. The solution to that problem, however, seems in some ways to be kept under lock and key. But here to begin cracking the code is a new venture capital community called The Helm, a company offering seed-round funding to female founders in hopes of injecting some much-needed… Continue reading "Could The Helm be the secret to fixing Silicon Valley’s gender diversity issue?"
