Companies & CEOs
MasterCard Shows Payments by Selfie - 07/03/2015
This fall, MasterCard will begin testing a new system that will allow making purchases on the Internet with the help of selfies. The software facial recognition has been called ID Check. It was created by MasterCard, in partnership with Google, Apple and Samsung. The first test will involve 500 cardholders. To use the service, users will need to install a special application, with help of which...
Instagram Has 38 Percent of Bots and Inactive Users - 07/02/2015
Researchers from Italy found that eight percent of registered Instagram accounts are created for spamming, and 30 percent of users of social networks are active only once a month. Such a data, as noted, can be a hindrance when renewing contracts between advertisers (the companies that provide services and selling goods) and trade platforms (the social network’s popular bloggers). Reporting the...
Layoff at BBC - 07/02/2015
British Broadcasting Corporation BBC is going to cut more than 1,000 employees due to lack of funding. This was reported by the broadcaster. BBC stated that the gap between television fees and expenses of the corporation is 150 million pounds per year. It was formed due to the fact that a growing number of households in the United Kingdom refuse television and, accordingly, do not pay the fee....
Zuckerberg Looks Forward to Thoughts Teleportation - 07/01/2015
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes that a technology transferring full thoughts from person to person eventually has to be invented. He expressed this opinion, answering questions on 30 June. - You would be able to think about anything and instantly share these thoughts, if you wish, - he suggested. According to him, this will be the most advanced stage of development of communication...
Movimento Introduces OTA Updates for Every Car Modules - 06/30/2015
Movimento has come up with OTA platform in vehicle software that promises to make driving a much simpler experience. The introduction of the new Movimento OTA Platform, with software updates with ease of access and availability, is being considered the next step in vehicle automation. With the dawn of new age, the needs for technologies that make life easier are on the rise. Automated service is...
Google Garbles Search Results - 06/30/2015
Google filters the results displayed by promoting its own services instead of services of competitors, thereby violating the antitrust laws of many countries and harming the users of the Internet, according to a study conducted by American scientists Michael Luke from Harvard Business School and Tim Wu from Columbia University Law School. The study was conducted with the support of Yelp - one of...
Jonathan Egol, ex-Goldman Sachs CDO Head, to Start Hedge Fund - 06/30/2015
In a universe of uplifted budgetary regulation, speculation banks like Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley are thinking that it difficult to possess complex, however high-yielding obligation securities given strict new principles. However, two veterans of the money related emergency, Jonathan Egol and Rob Allard, previous top dealers at Goldman Sachs, see an open door and are...
British E.U Exit Keeps Auto Companies On Their Toes - 06/30/2015
You would feel that worldwide car producers like Ford, BMW and Renault-Nissan would have appointed top to bottom studies and counseled numerous specialists before choosing to unnerve voters in an up and coming choice on British participation of the European Union, however you'd not be right. All things considered, by meddling in British governmental issues, they jeopardize tremendous benefits...
Navigant Research’s Long Term Predictions for VGI enabled PEVs - 06/30/2015
Navigant Research’s report on Vehicle Grid Integration Services focuses exclusively on the emerging market of VGI enabled PEVs and the benefits it can generate for both an industry and the owners involved. This quite new technology is a growing market and the report focuses on long term predictions up to 2024. The move towards setting up a more eco-conscious sustainable energy system has led to...
Teva’s Announcement - 06/30/2015
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., declared today that the U.S. Sustenance and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged for survey the Biologics License Application (BLA) for reslizumab, the organization's investigational acculturated monoclonal immune response (mAb) which targets interleukin-5 (IL-5), for the treatment of insufficiently controlled asthma in grown-up and immature patients...
