Microsoft-owned GitHub will renew a $200,000 contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite concerns about the Trump administration’s policies, according to a leaked email. GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said in an internal email leaked to tech activist organization Fight for the Future that ICE purchased a license for a GitHub enterprise server in 2016, and that the purchase recently came up for renewal. In the email, Friedman said the company doesn’t have an agreement to provide professional services to ICE, and it “has no visibility into how this software is being used, other than presumably for software development and version control.” “NO…
Author: Loknath Das
Nobody comes to work jazzed about chasing after data. They simply want answers to their questions. That’s why Oracle is taking a new approach to analytics for finance pros, giving them tools that make it easier to stay informed about key financial measures. They can now set alerts on the most-relevant KPIs, review data through visualizations and narratives, and share their findings with colleagues via an app like Slack or WhatsApp—all from an app on their phone or laptop. T.K. Anand, Oracle senior vice president of analytics, told an Oracle OpenWorld crowd that the company’s new approach to analytics lets…
Aerial view to Dakar and shore of Atlantic ocean from observation deck of African Renaissance Monument through glass GETTY In a recent trip to Dakar, Senegal, I worked with a startup organization that was focused on bringing digital education to youth in sub Saharan Africa. As part of this assignment my team and I interviewed various schools, educators, administrators and parents in Senegal to understand the school systems in western Africa. What we found was that 65% of school children will eventually be employed in jobs that have yet to be created. What was seen as a key struggle is that…
Tim Swindle, 39, isn’t the kind of guy who loves climbing the corporate ladder. The Chicago-based entrepreneur would rather test his wits developing board games and startups. “I’m trying to avoid a desk job,” says Swindle. “Deep down, everyone wants to be their own boss.” In July 2011, the serial entrepreneur left a corporate job in commercial real estate to help launch the software startup PointDrive. By January 2014, he and a friend cooked up a board game, Utter Nonsense, a card game where players read phrases in funny accents, and launched it as a side project on the crowdfunding site…
Sangrur: A girl befriends a local resident on phone, calls him to Mohali and serves him sedative mixed in tea. She then accuses him of raping her and extorts Rs 25 lakh. A woman befriends a resident of Cheema, takes him to a village and compels him to get intimate with her. Later, four persons bundle him in a car and demand money. During the past six months, the Sangrur police have busted various gangs involved in extorting more than Rs 45 lakh from area residents. In a majority of these cases, girls befriended their targets through phone calls, Facebook…
This morning the FDA released two guidance documents relating to the regulation of various digital health software devices. The first is a draft guidance outlining categories of clinical decision support (CDS) products that would or would not require direct regulatory oversight from the agency. This is an update to a CDS draft guidance released in 2017, with the noteworthy addition of a risk-based categorization approach for determining enforcement over these tools. “The agency received feedback from many stakeholders advising us on improvements that could be made to better clarify the agency’s oversight of CDS products,” Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Amy Abernethy wrote in…
Chennai|New Delhi:Electronics manufacturers are seeking clarity from the finance ministry on the incentives and exemptions available to them in the new concessional tax regime according to top industry executives. Some of these companies are also seeking an extension of the 15% tax rate–announced for new manufacturing units –to existing manufacturing units as well. “We are in consultations with the Ministry to find out the applicability of various incentives enjoyed by the manufacturers in the 15% concessional tax regime,” an official of the Indian Cellular and Electronics Association, an electronics industry body, told ET. He did not want to be named.…
More often then not, women are conditioned to believe that they cannot handle financial planning. Men in Indian households are accustomed to taking charge of income. Recognising this gap between men and women who actively manage their earnings and savings, Hena Mehta started a one-of-its-kind mobile platform- Basis. The mobile app allows its users to pick investment products that will work for their financial needs and goals. The app comes especially handy to those women who are new to the often perceived as ‘complex’ world of investment. With a plethora of information on savings and investment products in the market,…
Welcome to the second part of T3’s in-progress Apple Watch Series 5 review, which looks at its software and performance. In part one of the Apple Watch Series 5 review, I took a look at the design (especially the new titanium body), and the new always-on screen. Tomorrow, I’ll talk about its health and activity features. Then we’ll finish with the final verdict and score, and a place in our best smartwatches guide. APPLE WATCH SERIES 5: PERFORMANCE The Apple Watch Series 5 has a new processor, called S5, that replaces the S4 used in the Apple Watch Series 4 (see if…
While thumbing through your social media feeds, you see several photographers who’ve posted a bunch of engaging and inspiring pieces of content. You pause… …and then tongue lash yourself for about 27 seconds at how lazy and unmotivated you are with creating content! Coming on the heels of that self-imposed trashing, you vow to create more content to drive attention to your photography business. Starting….NOW! Without any rhyme or reason, you open up a status update window determined to write something. Something relevant to your business and brand? Let’s people know more about you as a person? Eh, no time…