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Using Machine Learning To Find Employees Who Can Scale With Your Business
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Blockchain ≠ Bitcoin: Demystifying Blockchain’s Business Value in Oil and Gas
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Facebook crypto plan draws fire
European leaders have reacted with alarm to Facebook’s plans for a cryptocurrency. Citing privacy and money laundering concerns, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire says Libra must not “become a sovereign currency,” while a German member ...
Explainer: Why is Huawei seeking $1 billion patent deal with Verizon?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Huawei is demanding Verizon Communications Inc pay $1 billion to license the rights to patented technology, signaling a potential shift in the embattled Chinese company’s strategy for the U.S. market. A Huawei ...
Bank investments in technology not yet driving significant revenue growth: Accenture
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $1 trillion invested by traditional banks globally over the past three years to improve their technology has not yet delivered the revenue growth that had been expected, according to an ...
Facebook is expected to unveil its secretive cryptocurrency next week
Big payment firms and other digital companies are all backing the social-media giant’s first foray into crypto. The news: Facebook will release the white paper associated with its new digital currency next week, the Wall Street Journal ...
Hackers behind dangerous oil and gas intrusions are probing US power grids
In a new troubling escalation, hackers behind at least two potentially fatal intrusions on industrial facilities have expanded their activities to probing dozens of power grids in the US and elsewhere, researchers with security firm ...
Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hackers $600,000
MIAMI — The leaders of Riviera Beach, Fla., looking weary, met quietly this week for an extraordinary vote to pay nearly $600,000 in ransom to hackers who paralyzed the city’s computer systems. Riviera Beach, a ...
