With a new CEO officially at the helm and a six-month PR blitz to win back drivers underway, it’s clearer than ever that Uber, which has been rocked by scandal after scandal, wants to change its image for the better. So when Uber announced earlier this week it was rolling back a controversial feature that…
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Libratone update will add Amazon Alexa voice control to its speakers
Libratone, a Danish maker of snazzy high end wireless speakers, has announced its existing Zipp and Zipp Mini speakers will get support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant via a free app update, slated to arrive this fall. Read More
Gorgeous photos record idyllic country life in Victorian England
by inbusiness “Window Call.” These images of rural life in Victorian England were shot by William Morris Grundy, and acquired after his death by the London Stereoscopic Company. Born in Birmingham in 1806, Grundy took up photography in 1855 and made dozens of stereoscopic photos, primarily posed genre scenes of rustic pursuits such as hunting,…
How To Get Your Boss To Agree To Your New Idea
By Marilyn Vinch Success in business requires doing something a little bit different to everyone else. You can impress your boss with hard work and dedication, but all that’s likely to get you is more of the same; true progress requires fresh ideas and original thinking. Perhaps this is why management can be so reluctant…
Garmin debuts three new wearables and a mobile payment solution
Garmin has three new wearable devices it’s debuting at IFA 2017, including the vivosmart GPS-enabled activity tracker, the vivomove HR hybrid touchscreen smartwatch and the vivoactive 3, a smartwatch with Garmin Pay, which supports Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards to enable mobile payments on the go. The Garmin vivoactive 3 includes GPS, a…
These are the leading credit card processing companies (JPM, BAC, C, WFC, VNTV, TSS, BCS, FDC, WPG)
BI Intelligence Credit card processors are mostly responsible for data transmission and security when you use your card at a store or online to make a purchase. There are two types of processors in the payment-card system. Front-end processors route transactions from merchants to the cardholder’s bank to gain authorization; that is, they make sure a customer has…
SD-WAN: An Agile Enabler of Enterprise Movement towards the Cloud – InBusiness
by inbusiness By Taj ElKhayat, Regional Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Riverbed Technology Gone is the time where IT assets were limited to a handful of data centers. Gone is the time where users and applications were all bound by one unified MPLS network. Gone is the time where the enterprise perimeter was limited…
17 photos show the meteoric rise and fall of Macy’s, JCPenney, and Sears
Seph Lawless; Skye Gould/Business Insider In the past year, department store chains have announced a wave of location closures across the United States. Macy’s recently revealed plans to shut down 100 stores. In July, Sears said it’s shuttering 43 US stores, in addition to the 265 closings it announced in early 2017. JCPenney released a list of 138 stores it…
New drone tracking system detects threats on Dubai air space
A live drone-intrusion warning system is now plugged in and on guard to alert Dubai Civil Aviation Authority when the safety of restricted air space above Dubai International Airport is threatened. The new system will track flying drones and signal a red alert when the proximity of planes and sensitive flight paths in and out…
Spectra Energy (SE) Earnings Beat, Revenues Miss in Q3
Premier natural gas company Spectra Energy Corp. SE reported third-quarter 2016 earnings per share from continuing operations of 31 cents, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 26 cents. The bottom line also improved from the year-ago quarter earnings of 23 cents per share. The company’s operating revenues of $1,075 million fell 2.5% from the…
Ukraine exhibition explores our "fragile state"
by inbusiness Kyiv is confirming its place on the world map of contemporary art with a new international exhibition. The double meaning of the show’s title, “Fragile State” – on at the PinchukArtCentre – is particularly relevant in Ukraine. Bjorn Geldhof, the artistic director, said: “The exhibition tries to tackle that notion, to make that…
Epicor iScala Wins Gold Stevie® in the 2017 International Business Awards
by Vernon Saldanha Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, announced that the Epicor iScala solution was named the winner of a Gold Stevie Award in the Best New Software Product of the Year, Financial Management Solution category in the 14th Annual International Business Awards. The latest version…
Las Vegas taps AI for cybersecurity help
by inbusiness Hundreds of thousands of people live in the city of Las Vegas. But the city’s information security team is made up of just three employees and one intern, so the chief information officer of Las Vegas relies on artificial intelligence to keep the city’s data and tech secure. “The things that keep me…
Fortinet Named a Leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (SMB Multifunction Firewalls) for the 8th Consecutive Time
by Amber Dale Dubai, UAE, July 12, 2017: News Summary Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (SMB Multifunction Firewalls)1 for the eighth consecutive time. Gartner recognized Fortinet for its completeness of vision and…
TechAccess Inks Master Distribution Agreement with Informatica
Agreement covers the Gulf Cooperation Council, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Levant, North Africa and Pakistan Dubai, UAE, July 10, 2017: TechAccess, a leading value added distributor in the Middle East, North Africa, LEVANT, Pakistan and Afghanistan, has signed a master distribution agreement with
Why Entrepreneurship Education Does Not Work – InBusiness
by inbusiness By Andrew Yang, CEO & Founder, Venture For America I know dozens of entrepreneurship professors at campuses around the country and they’re almost universally great guys (they are typically male). I love what motivates them. They’re truly dedicated to developing young people. But I’ve also spoken to hundreds of students groping for…
What is the Highest Paying Job in Your State?
This article originally appeared on Monster.com. If you want to make a lot of money (and really, who doesn’t?), your job title and location are two major factors that contribute to a high salary. Fact is, some jobs in certain places just pay better than others. Where should you live and what job should you…
The video game industry now gets more money making games for smartphones and tablets than for consoles or PCs
by inbusiness There’s a common feeling among video game enthusiasts that mobile games don’t really count. When it comes to the video game industry’s bottom line, though, mobile games are anything but worthless. This year, smartphone and tablet games combined are expected to bring in 42% of the gaming market’s global revenues, according to a…
A Computer Designed Stanley Black & Decker’s New Tool
Stanley Black & Decker has enlisted an algorithm’s help to redesign a tool for electricians, marking a big shift from relying on humans to do the job. For the past several months, the industrial and household tool giant has been experimenting with cutting-edge technologies to produce the tool, which is used to fix hanging electrical…
Sennheiser HD 1 Review: The Only Wireless Headphones You Need
by inbusiness Not quite flashy, not quite retro, and excellent in sound quality, the Sennheiser HD 1s are just right for music, gaming, and even talking on the phone. ———- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg?sub_confirmation=1 Bloomberg is the First Word in business news, delivering breaking news & analysis, up-to-the-minute market data,…