Business Report: Facebook Under Government Scrutiny Saturday, October 26, 2019 Photo by Jenny Kane / AP Above: In this file photo, an iPhone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger. KPBS Anchor Maya Trabulsi and BottomLine Marketing co-founder and SDSU marketing lecturer Miro Copic discuss some of the week’s top business stories.Your browser does not…
Month: October 2019
Why Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plans are under fire
Why Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plans are under fire Osmond Chia – Oct 28, 2019, 5:10 am CDT 0 Facebook’s plans to launch its very own cryptocurrency was met with heavy opposition last week, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Libra proposal to Congress was hijacked into a hearing of the company’s past mishandling.To put it briefly, the…
Heads or tails? Pick it rather than tossing for it
Home General Entrepreneurship Heads or tails? Pick it rather than tossing for it Heads or tails? Pick it rather than tossing for it By 0 Which aspect to the cash running the electronic cash sector would you decide on? With about 1600 types of cryptocurrency performing, the most bewildering aspect of it would be to…
Apple, Facebook and Exxon are about to lead a big test of the earnings recession – MarketWatch
With the first truly hectic week of corporate earnings complete, the S&P 500 appears headed to a longer earnings recession, but reports from three of the large U.S.companies that were largely at fault could help turn around the numbers this week. Apple Inc.AAPL, +1.23% , Exxon Mobil Corp.XOM, +0.23% and Facebook Inc.FB, +0.81% are three…
Brad DeLong: Worthy reads on equitable growth, October 19–25, 2019
Brad DeLong: Worthy reads on equitable growth, October 19–25, 2019 Worthy : Read Liz Hipple, “ Public Policy Implications of the Millennial Wealth Gap ,” in which she writes: “Wealth may shape the behavioral choices of the next generation, thereby shaping opportunity by providing some with a soft cushion for a slip down the economic…
Facebook could do to banks what it did to publishers
Mark-Zuckerberg.File / Reuters Elaine Ou, Tribune News Service Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, testified about his company’s cryptocurrency project at a hearing held by the House Financial Services Committee.In his testimony, Zuckerberg tried to reassure Congress that Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency would square the circle between financial inclusion and regulatory adherence, consumer privacy and proactive fraud…
Police capture suspect in stabbing at Taco Bell in Tulsa
Police capture suspect in stabbing at Taco Bell in Tulsa By: The Associated Press October 25 2019 1:22 PM Updated: October 25 2019 1:21 PM TULSA, Okla.- Police in Tulsa have captured a man wanted for questioning in the fatal stabbing of another man at a Taco Bell restaurant. Tulsa Police Homicide Sgt.Brandon Watkins says…
Sunday Digest: Bitcoin Price Rally And The Weeks Top Headlines
Tradechat Forex This week, a string of Chinese hitmen were jailed after each subcontracted the next to carry out an assassination.The final hitman colluded with the target to fake his death, thus getting the whole lot caught and imprisoned.Thankfully not everyone in China is incompetent.President Xi Jinping did a great job of pumping Bitcoin this…
Congress pillories Zuckerberg over Libra cryptocurrency
This article, Congress pillories Zuckerberg over Libra cryptocurrency , originally appeared on CNET.com . Mark Zuckerberg faced six hours of sometimes scathing questioning in Wednesday, as dozens of lawmakers picked apart Facebook’s business practices, its many past scandals and a broad lack of consumer trust in the world’s biggest social network. The hearing, before the…
Trump criticizes Pompeo after diplomat’s damaging testimony
Trump criticizes Pompeo after diplomat’s damaging testimony Photo Credit: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin President Donald Trump, accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaks Wednesday, Oct.23, 2019, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Trump criticizes Pompeo after diplomat’s damaging testimony By: The Associated Press October 25 2019 3:48 PM Updated:…