Citing “market conditions”, Apple has announced a pay rise for corporate and retail employees. The move is aimed at stemming the departure of some prominent hires, as well as a response a response to union drives, which the company also intends to discourage through videos. Trouble in paradise? Things have…

A recent study on password use and cybersecurity has found the same as many previous studies: that people are still using the likes of “012345678”, “password” or “qwerty123”. The difference between this study and others is not in its conclusions, but in its target audience: this time, the authors of…

Coinbase has been hit hard by the temporary cryptocurrency crisis, and is trading at more than 80% below the starting price of its recent IPO, obliging it to clarify that it is not at risk of bankruptcy. Nevertheless, it has just announced a management practice that caught my attention: it…

Clearview AI is a US facial recognition company, which since its founding in 2017 has spent its time scraping a multitude of services on the web to find photographs of people along with their name or some detail of their identity, using them to create a huge database of more…

Any chance of meeting the decarbonization targets needed if human life is to continue on the planet is slipping away as the post-pandemic economic recovery continues. Estimates indicate that we have only a 50% chance of reaching the targets for curbing global warming by 2026, and the outlook for 2050…

Ransomware represents an ever-worsening threat for companies in all industries, as well as for insurers, who have increased their premiums sharply in response to increasingly serious and frequent attacks. The police’s pursuit of some groups related to the increase in criminal activity has led to fragmentation, making it harder to…

Here’s a timely question: how much have companies transformed their customer service since the pandemic? During lockdown, in many countries, most customer service staff worked from home. The pandemic was the largest collective distributed work experiment in history, and although many companies are being overly conservative and tending to return…

The recently elected administration headed by Rodrigo Chaves in Costa Rica is facing what is possibly the largest ransomware attack in history, or at the very least, the most ambitious: the criminals involved say they will bring down the government if their demands are not met. The infiltration of government…

Since the value of Netflix’s share price began plummeting in November due to some numbers that seemed to portend an overly competitive market and a stagnated growth, the US subscription streaming company’s management has been mulling ways to regain traction, and they’ve now come up with a plan. What’s the…