SBA reports data breach in disaster loan application website

NEW YORK (AP) — The Small Business Administration reported a potential data breach last month in its website that handles disaster loan applications. | Continue reading


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An attempt to take over Nokia would be met with regulatory scrutiny

Telecom equipment supplier Nokia is reportedly believed to have hired investment bank Citi to fend off a hostile takeover bid worth as much as $17.4B. | Continue reading


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Whole Foods tracking employees with heatmap to rank stores at risk of unionizing

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Amazon-owned Whole Foods is heat-mapping employees to find unionizing stores

Stores' risk scores are based on more than two dozen metrics, including racial diversity, employee turnover, and "tipline" calls. | Continue reading


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Restaurant recovery plan built on fast food, neglecting independent restaurants

Experts say smaller, independent restaurants will have the hardest time surviving the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading


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A $1,300 smart crib is vulnerable to a hack that rapidly rocks babies

Happiest Baby, the company that sells the Snoo Smart Bassinet, says it patched the vulnerabilities after they were flagged and no babies were injured. | Continue reading


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Dogs able to sniff 750 people per hour could help identify Covid-19 cases

Dogs have already been taught to detect diseases such as cancer. UK health experts believe they could be trained to sniff test the coronavirus. | Continue reading


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Dr. Fauci throws cold water on conspiracy theory Covid-19 came from Chinese lab

Fox News and Republican allies of President Donald Trump have been pushing the lab narrative hard in recent days, despite a lack of hard evidence. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Amazon tried to shut down a protest by deleting employees' calendar invites

Amazon has now fired five workers since the coronavirus pandemic began who were involved in protests or criticized the company's treatment of workers. | Continue reading


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FEMA told Insider it "does not enter into contracts unless it has reason to believe they will be successfully executed." | Continue reading


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Verily tells US senators it is not subject to HIPAA

Verily has responded to senators in a letter clarifying how it will handle user data captured on its COVID-19 screening site. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

SoftBank-backed iBuyer Opendoor lays off roughly 600 employees

Opendoor, last valued at $3.8 billion, was the first iBuying company. It's been forced to stop new home purchases and just laid off 35% of staff. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

House Democrats introduce plan to pay Americans $2k/month until economy recovers

The proposal, from Reps. Tim Ryan and Ro Khanna, would provide a monthly stipend to all Americans over 16 who make less than $130,000 a year. | Continue reading


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Airbnb is raising $1B in debt, its second fundraising round in 2 weeks

Airbnb will pay 7.5% interest, a better deal than it secured in its last fundraising round, a source familiar with the deal told Business Insider. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Lego making 13,000 face visors a day for frontline healthcare workers

In an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, Lego joined forces with Danish healthcare workers to make visors to protect frontline workers' eyes. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Invite a llama or goat to your next corporate Zoom meeting or video call

With Goat 2 Meeting, people can request animal cameos and virtual field trips in their work happy hours and corporate meetings. | Continue reading


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Pope Francis: it might be time to consider a 'universal basic wage'

"This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out," The Pope said. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Why Amazon doesn't offer a 'price match' policy on the products it sells (2019)

Amazon does not price match, but tends to make up for it with low prices. Here's what you need to know about Amazon's lack of a price match policy. | Continue reading


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List of coronavirus treatments now being tested in clinical trials

Repurposed drugs are the best near-term hope for a coronavirus treatment. Here are the top candidates now being tried in patients. | Continue reading


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Coronavirus: 8% of recovered patients in one study didn't develop antibodies

A new study found that the levels of antibodies that recovered coronavirus patients develop differ by age — and that some patients don't develop any. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft gives 12 weeks paid leave for parents

Microsoft is offering 12 weeks of paid leave to employees as schools remain closed, according an internal memo reviewed by Business Insider. | Continue reading


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WeWork refused to let startup move to smaller office, forcing it into bankruptcy

WeWork's refusal to renegotiate a lease is pushing one of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures' startups toward bankruptcy, the VC said. And he's frustrated. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Sweden said it didn't need a lockdown because people could be trusted

Sweden's Parliament is preparing in case it needs to introduce more restrictions, but for now the government is defending its unusual strategy. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Jony Ive Once Asked Steve Jobs Why He Was Such a Harsh Critic (2014)

Don't be vain. | Continue reading


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Gates warns that a coronavirus-like outbreak will happen 'every 20 years or so'

Gates said people now realize that there is "a meaningful probability every 20 years or so ... that one of these [viruses] will come along." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

More than half of US chief executives plan layoffs and furloughs

In a new survey, 43% of chief executives said they planned to reduce wages, salaries, or benefits in response to the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Airbnb's losses swelled to $674M last year, before the coronavirus crisis

Airbnb's revenue jumped 32% last year to $4.8 billion. But its expenses grew even faster, leading to a $674 million loss. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

HMBradley launches with interest rates up to 3% for savers

Digital banking platform HMBradley's hybrid savings and checking account offers four tiers of interest rates and flexibility in how you use it. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Big box stores barred from selling 'nonessential' items in parts of the US

The only way that customers can shop for these nonessential items is by using online delivery services or curbside pickup. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Hackers have sent Covid-19 attacks to all 241 nations

Microsoft mapped cyberattacks related to COVID-19 and found that hackers have hit 241 countries and territories with phishing and other scams. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

SoftBank-backed GetYourGuide plans to survive Covid-19

How one of the Europe's biggest startups will survive the coronavirus. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Zoom sued by shareholder accusing it of covering up its security flaws

The videoconferencing service Zoom has become embroiled in multiple security-related controversies over the past few weeks. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Zoom admits calls got 'mistakenly' routed through China

Zoom's security woes are compounding. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Taiwan bans official use of Zoom (data routed through China)

Taiwan's government said Zoom had "security issues." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Spain is moving to permanently establish universal basic income

Spain would be the first European country to enact a basic income and provide monthly cash payments to its citizens. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Blue shop towel face masks can filter particles 3x better than cotton

Three clothing makers built their own particle-testing lab to design a better homemade surgical mask. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Fauci warned that coronavirus could likely become seasonal

Fauci said that the difficulty in containing the outbreak globally meant there could be a resurgence by next season. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Airbnb raises $1B as it takes big hit from coronavirus crisis

As global travel slows due to the new coronavirus, Airbnb has been hit hard, but the company was reportedly losing money even before the pandemic. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

New IBM CEO calls for a “maniacal focus” on AI and hybrid cloud

IBM's new CEO is taking over at a time when skepticism over its cloud strategy is rampant — and when his employees can't even come into the office. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Americans driving less because of the coronavirus hurts red-light revenue

The Australian company that operates traffic enforcement for 90 US cities warned this week its business will be hurt by the driving slowdown. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Singapore is using a high-tech surveillance app to track the coronavirus

If rolled out in the US, Singapore's app would violate a slew of privacy laws — but the country is also rapidly outpacing the US in COVID-19 testing. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

NYC sends push alert to all phones asking healthcare professionals to volunteer

New York City has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the US with more than 57,000 people infected and over 1,500 deaths. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Bill Gates is funding new factories for 7 potential coronavirus vaccines

Bill Gates had previously said a coronavirus vaccine could be developed in 18 months. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Amazon is delaying Prime Day

Amazon is delaying Prime Day until August, its massive annual shopping holiday that usually occurs in July. | Continue reading


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Bill Gates has previously said a coronavirus vaccine could be developed in 18 months. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

SoftBank is backing out of its plan to buy $3B worth of WeWork shares

SoftBank no longer plans to buy $3 billion in WeWork shares from investors and workers, a move that may cost WeWork $1.1 billion in debt financing. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

How to enable waiting rooms in Zoom to prevent ‘Zoom bombing’

Trolls are bombarding public zoom calls with graphic images and online zoom classes have been hijacked. Put these Zoom bombers in the "waiting room." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

A gallon of gas for 95 cents? It's here – and it will soon be even cheaper

The coronavirus pandemic is cratering demand for fuel, which is driving down the price of gas to 99 cents or less. And the bottom isn't even in sight. | Continue reading


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