Uber Technologies Inc co-founder Travis Kalanick said he had appointed two new directors, a surprise move that publicly reignited a board battle over the role of the ousted former chief executive. Kalanick’s move on Friday sought to pre-empt a move by new Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi to restructure the board and gain greater control, a ... Read More »
US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Tom Price, a strong critic of President Obama’s healthcare reforms, as his future health secretary. The Georgia congressman and orthopaedic surgeon, 62, chairs the House of Representatives budget committee. He will play a key role in Republican plans to replace the Affordable Healthcare Act ... Read More »
Editors over at Popular Mechanics love to find new ways to put things together and take them just as easily apart. That’s probably why they named the HoloLens as one of their Breakthrough products for 2016. The award was given to Microsoft HoloLens as a result of the sheer ease-of-training ... Read More »
21st Century Fox Inc. Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch tapped two Fox News veterans as co-presidents of the cable news network following the departure of Roger Ailes, who resigned as the network’s chief executive last month amid allegations he sexually harassed employees. Bill Shine is currently the senior executive vice president ... Read More »
BlackBerry Ltd. has appointed a brand new chief to oversee its device business, as the smartphonemaker continues to shake up the division‘s government ranks in a bid to make the operation worthwhile. Ralph Pini will be triumphant Ron Louks because the device department‘s leader operating officer andgeneral supervisor, consistent with ... Read More »
GoDaddy has long been known as the world’s largest domain name provider, and it has also long been dedicated to small businesses. Deservedly so, the company has now announced that it is expanding on its existing partnership with Microsoft, and will be offering GoDaddy domains through Microsoft’s Azure App Service ... Read More »
Yik Yak, the anonymous social network popular on college campuses, is asking users to create user names. Starting today, users will be asked to create “handles” that they can optionally attach to their posts. The handles, which do not have to include users’ real names, will be turned on by ... Read More »
