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Facebook Inc. said in a report on Wednesday that government demands for its user data surged in the first half of 2015. With government access to personal data from telephone and web companies becoming a hot topic among users, Facebook began reporting on government request numbers in 2015. According to the company the number of […]
Snapchat videos have reached 6 billion plays per day according to the Financial Times. In May the company was delivering just 2 billion video plays on a daily basis. Snapchat confirmed the view count but declined to give any further details about its quick climb. The new 6 billion figure means Snapchat is quickly closing […]
87,000 people have lost their jobs in the oil sector this year and that number is about to increase. Plummeting oil prices are forcing Chevron to layoff 6,000 to 7,000 employees. The company is cutting investment by a fourth. “With the lower investment, we anticipate reducing our employee workforce by 6,000-7,000,” chairman and CEO, John […]
For years, the subscription box has helped us solve some lives previously unsolvable problems. How am I supposed to remember to buy razor blade refills? What if I want a new pair of shoes every month? Subscription boxes offer not only unique items and may prevent a trip to the store, but also the singular […]
Google Photos is already responsible for the storage of 3,720 terabytes of pictures and videos. To store that much data on your own would require 3,809,280 one-gigabyte flash drives. CNNMoney says that equals 119,040 pounds of the thumb drives. Thumb drives can be purchased for around $2 a piece at 1GB these days, that means […]
Apple is reportedly overhauling the next version of its popular iPhone series and that overhaul will include the removal of the physical home button. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster wrote in a recent note picked up by Barron’s that the company will create an iPhone 7 with a new look meant to attract customers. According to the […]
Microsoft wants investors to focus on the number of Xbox Live users it has on its platform and not on the number of consoles shipped each quarter. In the company’s recent quarterly report, the company failed to reveal the number of Xbox One consoles it shipped for the quarter. That’s a significant shift for a […]
If you use Facebook on your iOS device and your battery is draining incredibly quickly, make sure to visit the App Store and update to the newest version of the app. Facebook admitted this week that its iOS app was a battery drain, so it fixed the problem and pushed out a quick update. Facebook developed […]
Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey is giving one-third of his company stock back to his employees, a move valued at nearly 1% of the company’s outstanding shares. Dorsey is planning to place those shares into the employee equity pool. The move will “reinvest directly in our people,” Dorsey said. Dorsey was named Twitter’s permanent […]
Investing in a 401(K) can help ensure that you live a more comfortable life at retirement. Unfortunately, many employees delay their 401(K) spending for years because of a tremendous amount of student loan debt. Realizing that employees need to start saving early on in their careers, one business has developed a student loan repayment program […]
If you live in the South or West this year there is a very good chance you will find yourself paying more for rent. Rent for single-family homes in those two parts of the country have increased the most according to RentRange. The biggest hikes occurred in Cape Coral/Fort Myers, Florida, with the average rent increasing […]
NYC restaurateur and Union Square Hospitality Group CEO Danny Meyer is ditching tips for his wait staff. “The tipping system, as it is, has completely lost any value that it may have ever had,” he said during an interview with FOX Business. The government recently banned tip sharing for people who cook the food and […]
