The Iowa City City Council discussed the possibility of becoming a Sister City with another international city at its April 2 meeting. Deputy City Manager Redmond Jones II gave a presentation during the work session portion of the meeting and answered the councilors’ questions about the logistics and benefits a sister city would bring to
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.
Citigroup Inc.’s profit topped analysts’ estimates as corporations tapped markets for financing and consumers leaned on credit cards — signs that a prolonged period of elevated interest rates will benefit big banks.
Computech IT Services Ltd has called in liquidators just seven years after receiving the Queen's Award for Enterprise - the most prestigious award a UK business can win
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.
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...
March closed with Resurrection Day (Easter or Pascha), the Christian celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead and renewal. Yet the most obvious thing Big Tech companies have renewed this past month are their censorship-heavy ways. From communist Chinese government-tied TikTok’s censorship of contraceptive-critical content to Google-owned YouTube terminating a therapy group channel for criticizing homosexuality, Big Tech went to bat for the woke, sexual and anti-pro-life ideology...
March closed with Resurrection Day (Easter or Pascha), the Christian celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead and renewal. Yet the most obvious thing Big Tech companies have renewed this past month are their censorship-heavy ways. From communist Chinese government-tied TikTok’s censorship of contraceptive-critical content to Google-owned YouTube terminating a therapy group channel for criticizing homosexuality, Big Tech went to bat for the woke, sexual and anti-pro-life ideology...
At least 160 rights groups are calling on tech platforms to adopt greater election safeguards amid concerns over AI-powered disinformation.
There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can. Achieving such a concept — commonly referred to as AGI — is the driving mission of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and a priority for […]