Emma Walmsley, chief executive officer of Glaxosmithkline Plc. Luke MacGregor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft said on Thursday that it’s nominating Emma Walmsley, the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, to its board of directors, adding a fifth woman to its board. Charles Noski, the former vice-chairman of AT&T, and Helmut Panke, […]
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Economic divide in the US is becoming as stark as its politics
Elizabeth Warren’s rally on September 16, 2019, Washington Square Park, New York. Joel Sheakoski | Barcroft Media | Getty Images The partisan polarization of America’s economy is rapidly catching up to the polarization of its voting patterns. Republicans and Democrats have long since separated themselves by ideology, leaving each more […]
Ex-Facebook engineer takes to YouTube to mock the culture and joke about how he was fired
Patrick Shyu Source: TechLede A former Facebook software engineer named Patrick Shyu took to his YouTube channel this week to post a video called “Day in the Life of a Facebook Software Engineer.” It’s not about any ordinary day, but rather the day Facebook fired him just over a month […]
Canada’s Trudeau apologizes for racist photos, but does not rule out possibility there are more
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the media in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Sean Kilpatrick | The Canadian Press | AP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized on Thursday after it emerged that he had worn racist makeup on at least three occasions decades ago. But he declined […]
How much millennials earn, compared to what their parents made at the same age
Millennials aren’t as well-off as their parents were at the same age: Their net worth is lower and they’re not making more money. “The individual earnings for young workers have remained mostly flat over the past 50 years,” the Pew Research Center finds in a 2019 report. One group of […]
‘We were wrong’: Koch network to change strategy in campaign against Trump’s trade war
Charles Koch Patrick T. Fallon | The Washington Post | Getty Images The political network funded in part by billionaire libertarian Charles Koch is going to try a new strategy against President Donald Trump’s trade war with China after conceding its previous campaign hasn’t worked. Koch network leaders said Thursday […]
You might want to skip today’s big iPhone update
The iPhone 11 Pro max Todd Haselton | CNBC iOS 13, Apple’s annual major iPhone software update, was released on Thursday. It has lots of new features, like dark mode, Apple Arcade, new Apple Maps, a better photos app and more. You might want to hold off until updating until […]
Idea of Warren presidency frightens investors at conference: ‘She’s not my candidate of choice’
In a room full of avowed capitalists, policies that sound to some like socialism are bound not to go over well. That’s why the recent surge by Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic presidential race polls was jangling the nerves of some of the finance professionals gathered Thursday at the […]
Apple releases its gaming subscription service, Apple Arcade
Ann Thai, senior product marketing manager of the App Store at Apple Inc., speaks during a company product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on March 25, 2019 in Cupertino, California. Michael Short | Getty Images Apple on Thursday officially launched Apple Arcade, its game subscription […]
Apple’s latest iPhone update is out now — here’s how to get iOS 13
iOS 13 Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple released its next big iPhone software update on Thursday. It’s called iOS 13 and it will bring a lot of new features to your iPhone. It’s the same software that ships on Apple’s new iPhones, which arrive in stores on Friday. Don’t worry: […]