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A former GrubHub driver has filed suit against the company, alleging GrubHub misclassified the drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. The class-action lawsuit is the first of its kind … Continue reading GrubHub Class Action Suit Could Have Implication for 1099 Status
This week national credit bureau Equifax announced it experienced a massive data breach from May to July 2017. An estimated 143 million U.S. credit holders are impacted, with financial experts … Continue reading Equifax Data Breach Impacts 143 Million Consumer and Business Credit Reports
A Verizon partner reportedly recently exposed records of 14 million subscriber calls. The records included customer names, phone numbers, and account PINs for about 6 million subscribers. An unsecured server … Continue reading Verizon Account PINs Compromised for 6 Million Subscribers
If your business already runs on G Suite, Google has just given you a 55-inch collaboration tool. Google Jamboard was widely released for purchase last month. The touchscreen whiteboard is … Continue reading Google Jamboard Expands Capability of G Suite
Long a favorite project management system for small and flexible companies, Slack is now expanding to provide services for corporations and multi-tiered businesses. Called Slack Enterprise Grid, the solution keeps … Continue reading Slack Now Offers Solution for Larger Businesses
AOL and Yahoo may remind you of the 90s internet rather than 2017, but they still have more than a billion users. This month, Verizon announced it would be combining the … Continue reading Verizon Combines AOL and Yahoo into Oath
Oracle is best known for its database software. In a recent call with investors, however, the CTO Larry Ellison emphasized Oracle’s fast-growing internet hosting service. Amazon Web Services (AWS) currently leads … Continue reading Oracle Emphasizes Internet Hosting Service
If you use a Captcha to protect your website forms from bots, you’ll be happy to hear that now you won’t have to burden most of your real users with … Continue reading New Invisible Captcha Doesn’t Require a Click
LPWAN, or low-power wide area network, is a wireless network technology that uses very little bandwidth. It’s optimized for low power use, longer distance, and the ability to keep transferring … Continue reading LPWAN: Efficient Internet
Microsoft, Intel, JPMorganChase, and other titans of the business world have joined forces to develop a computing system that would allow unrelated computers and servers to securely gather and store … Continue reading Major Corporations Join to Develop Digital Ledger System
Project Loon, Alphabet’s project to bring balloon-based internet service to the parts of the world without cables, has just overcome a mathematical and meteorological snag. (Alphabet is Google’s parent company.) They’ve figured … Continue reading Google’s “Internet by Balloon” Project Overcomes a Mathematical and Meteorological Obstacle
In recent years, Dropbox has been expanding its services from cloud storage to enterprise business solutions. With Paper, the company offers its first collaboration tool. Similar to Google Docs in … Continue reading Dropbox Launches New Collaboration Tool: Paper
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