This Week in Business; Wikileaks, Uber and Snap stories.

This Week in Business; Wikileaks, Uber and Snap stories.

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If you enjoy the daily digest feature that gives concise technology and business news (daily digest India), maybe you will enjoy this. All stories from LinkedIn Editors, check out their top picks here.

  • Uber's self-driving cars are coming back to the streets of San Francisco. And this time, they're legal!
  • Uber will stop using its Greyball tool to evade officials.
  • Uber’s AI Labs head Gary Marcus is moving on after only four months.
  • Samsung’s heir goes on trial: Jay Y. Lee’s “trial of the century” began today, and the de facto head of Samsung.
  • CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, told his staff this week that he’s hiring a Chief Operating Officer. Last week, after a tape surfaced of an argument with an Uber driver, the CEO announced that he needs "leadership help and I intend to get it.” 
  • Einstein, meet Watson: Salesforce and IBM are teaming up on AI efforts, “mixing Einstein’s customer relationship data with Watson’s stores of structured and unstructured data that include weather, healthcare, financial services and retail.”
  • Ford has begun testing 3D printing for large parts, which could "open up a whole new world of opportunity for niche vehicle lines, vehicle upgrade options and more," Techcrunch reports.



  • Wikileaks delivered a bombshell of 8,761 leaked CIA documents, outlining how smart TVs and mobile devices can be hacked.
  • Tech companies react to Wikileaks: Apple, Google, Microsoft (LinkedIn’s parent), Samsung, and others are responding to the latest document dump from Wikileaks.
  • Make your own “Stranger Things” ending: Netflix is experimenting with “choose your own adventure” technology — branch narratives that gives users control over the plots of the shows they watch.
  • President Trump signed a revised travel ban executive order. The new one no longer affects Iraqis, and it honors visas already issued for citizens from Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya. 
  • Internet trolls: They’re just like us. New research finds that the most likely time for people to turn into online trolls are Sunday and Monday nights, between 10pm and 3am, and that “a significant proportion of trolling comes from people who haven’t trolled before.”
  • The US trade deficit hit a nearly five-year high in January, jumping from $4.2 billion to $48.5 billion.
  • RadioShack has declared bankruptcy (again): For the second time in nearly as many years.
  • Crude oil fell below $50 for the first time this year.
  • The US workforce is shrinking: The native-born US workforce began to shrink last year, according to Pew Research.
  • LinkedIn released its monthly Workforce Report which showed that job growth in the first two months of 2017 was strongest since the late summer of 2015.

#STAT

  • China posted its first monthly trade deficit in three yearsImports are up over 38% from this time last year and exports down just over 1%.
  • US businesses added a whopping 298,000 jobs in February, according to ADP, toppling the expected 190,000.
  • The US has a trucker problem. The American Trucking Associations estimated that companies had 50,000 fewer truck drivers than they needed in 2015.
  • GM leaves Europe, creating an auto giant: General Motors has sold its Opel and Vauxhall brands to PSA Group, the owner of Peugeot and Citro?n. 


  • Snap has been doused with cold water, as shares dove this week and analysts say it's overvalued.
  • Twitter has an unexpected new rival – and it comes from Amazon. Twitch, the games-focused streaming site that Jeff Bezos bought in 2014, has just unveiled a news feed that will collect all the real-time social happenings of its network.

Cover Photo: People waiting for Uber rides at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Photo by Bloomberg.

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Neda Wasim

Digital Marketing

7 年

"Make your own “Stranger Things” ending: Netflix is experimenting with “choose your own adventure” technology — branch narratives that gives users control over the plots of the shows they watch." - this news story has really piqued my interest. Giving user the control of the plots, defies the entire purpose of watching a TV show. The suspense, the drama is enjoyable only when the "uncertainity" factor is there.

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