Category: Business

The majority of American Twitter users who have used the application within the last 12 months have taken a break from the site, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.  The data was analyzed by researchers in an effort to understand the changing utilization of Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover in April 2022. […]

Disposable diapers manufactured from wood pulp, cotton, viscose rayon, and plastics such as polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene make a major “contribution” to garbage around the world that has to be burnt or buried in landfill. In Israel, with its high birthrate, dirty diapers form mountains in garbage dumps.  What can be done about them polluting […]

That’s the message from UN chief António Guterres ahead of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on Thursday. Mr. Guterres insisted on the need to confront technology’s perils, including the amplification of economic inequalities, the proliferation of hate speech and disinformation, as well as the lack of governance and unchecked development of artificial intelligence, or […]

The contraction of the Disney Plus subscriber portfolio was mainly due to an 8 percent drop in India. Subscribers to Disney Plus fell for the second straight quarter, the company said on Wednesday, though it stemmed financial losses as it competes with Netflix for viewers. Analysts had foreseen an increase in subscribers for the period, […]

An Amazon logo appears on a delivery van, Oct. 1, 2020, in Boston. Officials in a remote northeastern Oregon county voted Wednesday, May 10, 2023, to give tax breaks worth an estimated $1 billion to Amazon for five more data centers there. Credit: AP Photo/Steven Senne, File Officials in a remote northeastern Oregon county have […]

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Italy’s antitrust regulator said Thursday it has opened an investigation into tech giant Apple for allegedly abusing a dominant position in the app market. At issue is Apple’s App Tracking Transparency policy that compels third party developers to secure an opt-in from iPhone users to track their usage for advertising and […]

Foxconn is the world’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer and assembles gadgets for many international brands. Profits for Taiwanese tech giant and key Apple supplier Foxconn fell 56 percent in the first quarter, it announced Thursday, a plunge blamed on weakened demand due to a global downturn. Foxconn—also known by its official name Hon Hai Precision […]

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research from ESMT Berlin shows that utilizing machine-learning in the workplace always improves the accuracy of human decision-making, however, often it can also cause humans to exert more cognitive efforts when making decisions. These findings come from research by Tamer Boyaci and Francis de Véricourt, both professors of management science […]

Elon Musk holds one of his children as he watches a Red Bull racing crew during practice for the Formula One Miami Grand Prix auto race, at Miami International Autodrome in Miami Gardens, Fla., Saturday, May 6, 2023. Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now […]

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Japanese conglomerate Toshiba on Friday said full-year net profit fell by more than a third due partly to weak sales in electronic devices and other one-off factors. It also said a planned takeover bid process that is expected to take the company private will likely start in late July. For the […]