PayPal will reportedly host stock-trading on its platform for U.S. customers, as the American financial tech company welcomed a brokerage industry veteran to manage the new feature, cited by CNBC. Rich Hagen, the co-founder and former president of brokerage Ally Invest, is now Paypal’s chief executive officer of an undisclosed department called “Invest,” according to his LinkedIn profile. Hagen’s current job description showcases that the San Jose, California-based company is working on “exploring opportunities” in the consumer investment […]
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For months, Gabrielle Walker had been looking for a part-time job. She applied to restaurant chains and retailers like Nando’s and Primark, and she scoured the job search site Indeed. Nothing. Then one day, Walker, a 19-year-old student at University College London, was scrolling through TikTok and stumbled on a video about an app called […]
Zoom will pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that weak privacy controls opened too many peepholes into the personal information of users and that it was too easy for outsiders to disrupt video meetings during the early stages of the pandemic. The proposed agreement must still be approved by U.S. District Judge Lucy […]
A consortium of cybersecurity specialists launched on Tuesday an initiative to encourage companies to implement preventive security measures to end abusive online behavior experienced by workers. Respect In Security, launched by Lisa Forte from Red Goat Cyber Security and Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson on July 14 on Twitter, is a long overdue plan that focuses […]
Over the next five years, the UAE will witness a digital transformation to its economy as the country launched The National Program for Coders on Saturday. The initiative offers golden visas to 100,000 coders, as well as code training with tech giants. The UAE is going the extra mile to attract the best coders from around the globe, while offering them with the basis needed to develop innovative tech ideas. IT specialists and […]
Earlier this year, social media users were less than thrilled when they found out about Twitter’s new story feature “Fleets.” The new feature, which is an almost identical option to what is available on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, LinkedIn and other social media platforms, was widely ridiculed and ignored. Twitter picked up on the negative feedback from its users and decided to take […]
For 21 years, the software company Kaseya labored in relative obscurity — at least until cybercriminals exploited it in early July for a massive ransomware attack that snarled businesses around the world and escalated U.S.-Russia diplomatic tensions. But it turns out that the recent hack wasn’t the first major cybersecurity problem to hit the Miami-based […]
TikTok launched on Wednesday an avant-garde pilot program that allows users to upload video resumes for jobs based in the U.S. through a new feature, TikTok Resumes. The culture fueling platform announced the launch of its new tool, resurfacing from the content that appears on the platform organically, such as #CareerTok. This step, if succeeds, […]
Stakes have been mounting between two of the world’s major superpowers; however, the matter has shied away from ideologies and nuclear weapons and has moved matters into a realm etched into the very fabric of our everyday life: technology. Noticeably everything sharply ignited by former U.S. president Donald Trump’s blacklisting of Chinese tech titan Huawei […]
Russian authorities on Thursday ordered Facebook and the messaging app Telegram to pay steep fines for failing to remove banned content, a move that could be part of growing government efforts to tighten control over social media platforms amid political dissent. A Moscow court fined Facebook a total of 17 million rubles (roughly $236,000) and […]