More Than 200 Google Workers Form a Union
By: NY Post January 4, 2020 More than 200 Google workers have formed a union that aims to press the tech titan to live up to its former motto: “Don’t be evil.” The Alphabet Workers Union, named for Google’s parent company, has attracted 226 card-carrying members who are fed up with bosses dismissing […]
Venture Capital Hits Record High in U.S. in 2020 Despite Pandemic
By: Fox Business January 8, 2020 Venture capital-backed companies in the United States raised nearly $130 billion last year, setting a record despite the COVID-19 pandemic, figures from data firm CB Insight released on Friday show. While the investment total is up 14% from 2019, the number of deals is down 9% to 6,022. And […]
How to Deal With China
By: The Economist January 9, 2020 The world’s democracies desperately need a coherent approach to dealing with China. It is the 21st century’s ascendant power, but also an autocracy that mistrusts free markets and abuses human rights. However, recent events show how ineffective Western policy has become. On December 30th the European Union agreed on […]
Apple Will Modify Executive Bonuses Based on Environmental Values in 2021
By: Fox Business January 5, 2020 Apple Inc said in its annual proxy filing on Tuesday that it will modify executive cash bonuses based on whether the executives act within the company’s social and environmental values. But the iPhone maker did not specify how it would evaluate progress toward the company’s publicly stated targets such as removing […]
The Dam Breaks
By: Popular Information January 12, 2021 Last week, Popular Information contacted 144 corporations and asked if they would continue to support the Republican members of Congress who objected to the certification of the Electoral College vote. We received a trickle of about 15 responses and published the results on Sunday morning. Among those responding, three were […]
More Than Half of UK’s Furloughed Jobs at Risk of Automation – Report
By: The Guardian December 15, 2020 More than half of furloughed jobs in the UK are at the highest risk of automation as the Covid crisis accelerates workplace technology change, driving up redundancies and inequality across the country, according to a report. The two-year commission on workers and technology, chaired by the Labour […]
There’s Rich, And Then There’s Jeff Bezos Rich: Meet The World’s Centibillionaires
By: NPR.org December 10, 2020 You probably think 2020 has turned out to be a pretty lousy year, what with the coronavirus pandemic, a global recession and unceasing partisan warfare in Washington. Then again, you’re not Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. Thanks to soaring stock prices at Tesla, the company Musk founded, […]
More Than 1,200 Google Workers Condemn Firing of AI Scientist Timnit Gebru
By: The Guardian December 4, 2020 More than 1,200 Google employees and more than 1,500 academic researchers are speaking out in protest after a prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of artificial intelligence said she was fired by Google after the company attempted to suppress her research and she criticized its diversity efforts. Timnit Gebru, who was […]
A Formidable Alliance Takes on Facebook
By: The Economist December 14, 2020 Letitia james, New York’s attorney-general, couldn’t be blunter in describing the antitrust case lodged on December 9th against the world’s biggest social network. “By using its vast troves of data and money Facebook has squashed or hindered what the company perceived as potential threats. They’ve reduced choices for […]