No one is urging non-smokers to take them up, however a late report by Public Health England and found they were 95% less dangerous than tobacco and could be a “particular point of preference” when it arrived at persuading people to stop cigarettes. Around 2.6 million adults in Britain […]
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EU Taking a Close Look at Google’s Antitrust Practices
The European Union is deepening its probe into allegations made against Google Inc., which state that the search engine takes advantage of its dominance in advertising contracts with website operators and copies information and content from the websites of competitors. This is just another sign that the travails of Google […]
Intel President to Leave Amidst Other Departures
Photo courtesy of Josh Bancroft via Flickr According to the company’s announcement, Renee James, the President of Intel Corp, is stepping down from her position to seek a chief executive job somewhere else. This is just one of the several management changes that were announced as the current CEO, Brian Krzanich […]
BlackBerry Working on Venice and Launches Classic
Image Credit: Rendy via Flickr The next hot and new Android handset may be coming from a very unlikely manufacturer; BlackBerry. Last month, it had been reported by Reuters that BlackBerry was thinking of launching an Android device. But, the rumor seems to have gotten some confirmation as on Friday, the […]
US Partnering with Google for Curbing Rail Crossing Accidents
Image by BusinessInsider.com Last year, there was a sharp increase in the number of rail crossing accidents, which prompted the Federal Railroad Administration to work on a partnership with Google. The announcement made on Monday said that Google will provide locations of all the grade crossings in its popular map […]
Samsung’s Outlook Gets Blurry
Every year, Samsung Electronics habitually issues a voluminous ‘sustainability report’, which is full of statistics on the corporate, societal and environmental achievements of the South Korean technology giant. Since 2009, when the company launched its ten-year plan every year, the sustainability reports always talked about the firm’s progress towards its […]
Sources Say US Data Breach Work of Chinese Intelligence
Image via firstpost.com According to people with knowledge of the matter, the Chinese hacking group that’s suspected of stealing confidential information about hundreds of thousands of former and current employees of the US government has a different organizational structure and mission than the military hackers who have been accused of […]
EBay Sells Craigslist Stake
Online marketplace eBay Inc. is about to split into two, but before doing so, it has decided to sell off some old inventory. On Friday, the company which plans to spin off its PayPal payments unit until the next quarter, stated that it had sold off about 28.4% stake in […]
CEO Shakeup Puts Twitter Under Pressure
Image via businessinsider.com The new chief executive officer of Twitter Inc.’s is looking at a crucial challenge as the company attempts to appease Wall Street after the management shakeup this week; assisting disaffected advertisers in connecting with users. Furthermore, numerous analysts, investors and advertisers say that the microblogging platform already […]
Partnership Chief Leaves Pinterest
The executive ranks at Pinterest seem to be going through some executive pains. It was confirmed by the image-sharing website on Friday that the company’s head of partnerships, Joanne Bradford, has decided to step down. She decided to leave the firm after declining to take on a role that came […]