It’s tough out there — and yet, doing my semi-regular jobs post always gives me hope. Seems every time I post one of these, the number increases. At 74 companies, this is undoubtedly the largest list we’ve made, by a wide margin. That means more work for me in putting this post together, but if […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Downtown Bangor Partnership wants the city to contract with Streetplus, a Brooklyn-based urban safety, cleaning and hospitality service.
This month, at the 2024 Business, Government & Society Forum at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, spoke about the importance of companies taking responsibility for the impact they have on society.
The tech industry faces a pressing challenge: the declining presence of women in leadership roles. Post-pandemic, there was a rebound in the general workforce participation rates of women. Yet, in 2023, Forbes highlighted that the tech sector remains a concerning outlier.The representation of women in tech leadership roles has actually declined from 35% in 1984 to 28% in 2023. This marks a regressive trend in an otherwise forward-thinking industry.To address this, some tech companies are...
Japan's Prime Minister is lobbying for support from American executives for the Asian country's tech sector.
'We see a very collaborative future between AI and the human user. We do not see an adversarial relationship here,' says Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost.
The traditional banking and finance sectors are ramping up their tech capabilities amid growing competition from challenger fintechs, new data suggests. A new report from recruitment firm Robert Walters found that banking job listings in London requiring fintech skills were up 75% in the last 12 months, and listings for applicants with machine learning skills […]
Canada’s Parliament is considering a tax on digital services revenue that would impact the world’s biggest tech companies. The legislation would cover companies’ digital services revenue made from Canadian users, imposing a 3% tax on the revenue above 20 million Canadian dollars (about $14.5 million), Bloomberg reported Wednesday (April 17). It would apply only to companies […]
Pleasing people isn't always easy.It's tempting to give them so much that they have to be moved by the sheer volume of your offering.Also: I tested the best Mint alternatives, and this is my new favorite money appThe truth, though, is a little different. Finding one thing that melts a heart -- or, at least, makes that heart warm to your thoughtfulness -- can be far more winning. Even if that thing is a very little thing, indeed.Which brings me to United Airlines. While United was recently...
At least 160 rights groups are calling on tech platforms to adopt greater election safeguards amid concerns over AI-powered disinformation.
Tata Consultancy Services has topped the LinkedIn's latest list of top companies to work for in India, followed by Accenture and Cognizant in the second and third place respectively. Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Tuesday released the 2024 Top Companies list for India wherein IT companies bagged the top three ranks, while financial services firms dominated the list with 9 out of 25 companies from this sector. The 8th edition has derived insights from LinkedIn data, and lists the...
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania recently analyzed 100 non-federal acute care hospitals (those with an emergency room) across the country and found that a whopping 96 percent transmitted user information to third parties. If that weren't bad enough, the team was only able to find publicly accessible privacy policiesRead Entire Article