Laura Ingraham Takes a Week Off as Advertisers Drop Her Show

The Fox News host was criticized for saying that the Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg was whining about getting rejected from colleges. Fox News said her vacation was preplanned.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/media/laura-ingraham-david-hogg.html?source=Snapzu

Poland’s Surprisingly Beautiful Cheese

Oscypek, a golden-hued, spindle-shaped cheese, is as delicious as it is beautiful. But authentic versions are getting increasingly hard to find.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180327-polands-surprisingly-beautiful-cheese?source=Snapzu

Megachurch pastor indicted on $3.5 million fraud

A former religious adviser to President George W. Bush has been accused by federal prosecutors of defrauding investors of $3.5 million. Pastor Kirbyjohn Caldwell and a business partner, Gregory Smith, sold millions of dollars of worthless Chinese bonds, telling investors to "remain faithful and that they would receive their money," according to documents obtained by ABC Houston station KTRK. Both men could face significant jail time and be forced to forfeit assets.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/megachurch-pastor-indicted-35-million-fraud/story?id=54117145?source=Snapzu

Swedish Billboard is quite Literally for the Birds

How one company turned a building facade into a bustling bird buffet.
Read more: https://www.mnn.com/money/sustainable-business-practices/blogs/swedish-billboard-for-birds?source=Snapzu

Shares of a company that trafficked in personal Facebook data lose a third of their value

Shares of Acxiom fell by a third Thursday after Facebook ended its partnership with the data broker as result of the social media's data privacy scandal. As a result, Acxiom warned 2019 revenue could be hit by as much as $25 million. Facebook announced plans Wednesday to shut down its third-party data provider division as part of a wider effort to clean up data practices following a massive leak of user profiles. More than 50 million Facebook profiles were harvested by an app for data, which passed the information onto London-based elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/shares-of-a-company-that-trafficked-in-personal-facebook-data-are-plunging.html?source=Snapzu

Self-driving cars could kill hundreds but save tens of thousands, Toyota executive says

Self-driving cars could kill hundreds of people every year in the early going but save many more lives, a Toyota executive said Thursday at an event near the New York Auto Show. After a self-driving Uber car killed a pedestrian in Arizona earlier this month, concerns about the movement toward autonomous transportation have escalated. But Toyota North America CEO Jim Lentz said Thursday that more deaths are coming as automakers and tech companies pursue self-driving vehicles.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/03/29/self-driving-cars-uber-crash-toyota/468804002/?source=Snapzu

Onion Inc. has unionized

We’ve decided to form a union here at Onion Inc., home of The A.V. Club and our sister sites The Onion and ClickHole. First, all of The A.V. Club staff, along with an overwhelming majority of Onion Inc. staff, signed cards signaling our desire to unionize. Then we made it official on Monday when we requested formal recognition from our management. The new union comprises all of the creative staffs at Onion Inc.: The A.V. Club, The Onion, ClickHole, The Takeout, Onion Labs, and Onion Inc.’s video and art departments.
Read more: https://news.avclub.com/onion-inc-has-unionized-1824163858?source=Snapzu

Snap is laying off around 100 more people, this time in sales

Snap is laying off about 100 people, primarily from the company’s sales side. It’s the third round of layoffs for Snap since the beginning of the year; the company also restructured its content teams in January and laid off around 120 engineers earlier this month. Imran Khan, the company’s chief strategy officer and the head of all its business operations, said in a statement that these layoffs were part of a planned downsizing that started late last year. Here’s his full statement:
Read more: https://www.recode.net/2018/3/29/17176230/snap-layoffs-sales-restructuring-imran-khan?source=Snapzu

The FCC's Evidence-Optional Blacklist Of Huawei Is About Protectionism, Not National Security

Last week we noted that Best Buy was the latest to join a growing, evidence-optional blacklisting of Huawei based on ambiguous "national security" concerns. We also noted how despite a lot of hand-wringing on certain fronts for most of this...
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180323/11435339490/fccs-evidence-optional-blacklist-huawei-is-about-protectionism-not-national-security.shtml?source=Snapzu

Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Just Raised Gobs of Money to Peddle Pseudoscience

There is good money in pseudoscience.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-just-raised-gobs-of-money-to-pedd-1824183669?source=Snapzu

Uber is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here's How to Avoid It

Drivers already know upfront pricing typically doesn't work in our favor. But what is upfront pricing, or variations of it, looking like for passengers? We had frequent traveler and RSG contributor Will analyze how Uber charges frequent riders.
Read more: https://therideshareguy.com/uber-is-ripping-off-frequent-riders-and-heres-how-to-avoid-it/?source=Snapzu

How warehouses for personal junk became a $38 billion industry

One in 11 Americans pays for space to store the material overflow of the American dream
Read more: https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/27/17168088/cheap-storage-warehouse-self-storage-real-estate?source=Snapzu

Facebook severs relationship with third-party data brokers

In light of Facebook’s recent privacy woes, the company today pledged to take a meaningful step in righting past wrongs by shutting data brokers out of its multi-billion dollar ad platform. Facebook’s product marketing director Graham Mudd had this to say...
Read more: https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/03/29/facebook-to-block-data-brokers-from-its-ad-network/?source=Snapzu

Facebook — Even as It Apologizes for Scandal — Funds Campaign to Block a California Data-Privacy Measure

The initiative also would allow Californians to sue companies that violate their request not to share personal information — another point of contention for business groups, which almost always oppose policies making it easier for them to be sued.
Read more: https://www.kqed.org/news/11658309/facebook-even-as-it-apologizes-for-scandal-funds-campaign-to-block-a-california-data-privacy-measure?source=Snapzu

The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death

America’s self-reliance obsession makes it more acceptable to applaud working yourself to death than to argue that doing so points to a flawed economic system.
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death?source=Snapzu

Amazon lands patent for delivery drones that can be waved down by customers

​If Amazon's delivery drones do actually enter our lives, what will they look like and how might they move around? If the latest patient issued to the company is anything to go by, perhaps they will be waved down by customers awaiting deliveries.
Read more: https://newatlas.com/amazon-patent-drones-wave/53985/?source=Snapzu

FedEx is the latest Fortune 100 company to jump on the Tesla Semi bandwagon

FedEx is the latest in a string of Fortune 100 companies to hop on the Tesla Semi bandwagon. The delivery company on Monday announced its plan to purchase 20 Tesla Semi trucks once production begins in 2019. FedEx didn’t specify which Tesla Semi models it might be interested in, but the base model boasts 300 miles of range while a pricier model sports an impressive 500 miles of range on a single charge.
Read more: http://bgr.com/2018/03/26/tesla-semi-fedex-order-20-trucks/?source=Snapzu

Google Isn't Listening, So Its Employees Are Suing

If you ask Google whether it has a discrimination problem, the company might point you to its industry-leading diversity efforts or its program for responding to complaints. But employees who challenge that narrative by asserting that it has created anything but a healthy, supportive environment are being labeled troublemakers and, in some instances, pushed out of the company. Today, Google faces so many of these troublemakers that it can no longer simply shrug them off, even if its every instinct is to do just that.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/google-isnt-listening-so-its-employees-are-suing-1823611720?source=Snapzu

Lockheed Martin Now Has a Patent For Its Potentially World Changing Fusion Reactor

Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system that size of shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so.
Read more: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19652/lockheed-martin-now-has-a-patent-for-its-potentially-world-changing-fusion-reactor?source=Snapzu

Almost every thing that went wrong in the Uber fatality is both terrible and expected

Each thing that went wrong is both important and worthy of discussion, but at the same time unimportant.
Read more: http://ideas.4brad.com/almost-every-thing-went-wrong-uber-fatality-both-terrible-and-expected?source=Snapzu

​Happy 25th birthday Red Hat Linux!

25 years ago, in Bob Young wife's sewing room, the most successful of all Linux and open-source software companies got its start. Young and current Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst share their thoughts on Red Hat's journey.
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/article/happy-25th-birthday-red-hat-linux/?source=Snapzu

Uber fails to survive, exiting Southeast Asia

Uber, arguably the most dominating taxi service around the world, has been facing numerous problems in Southeast Asia and they are winding up their operations in the region. Uber is selling its business to one of its main competitor Grab that has been proving a potential rival to Uber all the way since the laugh of the later. Grab is growing incredibly fast in Southeast Asian ride-sharing, financial and food delivery services business.
Read more: https://tribuneweek.com/uber-fails-to-survive-exiting-southeast-asia/?source=Snapzu

Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google

Google could owe Oracle Corp. billions of dollars after an appeals court said it didn’t have the right to use the Oracle-owned Java programming code in its Android operating system on mobile devices.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/oracle-wins-revival-of-billion-dollar-case-against-google?source=Snapzu

How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet

Ad scammers need suckers, and Facebook helps find them.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them?source=Snapzu

Apple supplier Foxconn buys Belkin, Linksys, Wemo for $866M

Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited and Belkin revealed the move in a joint statement published to Belkin's website, saying the acquisition will be accomplished in an all-cash deal. "FIT is excited to acquire Belkin and its capabilities in the premium consumer products space," said Sidney Lu, CEO of FIT. "Integrating Belkin's best-in-class capabilities and solutions into FIT, we expect to enrich our portfolio of premium consumer products and accelerate our penetration into the smart home."
Read more: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/26/apple-supplier-foxconn-buys-belkin-linksys-wemo-for-866m?source=Snapzu

Why the Outrage?

Cambridge Analytica could have harvested, breached, brain-washed and honey-trapped to their evil hearts’ content, but if Clinton had won, it wouldn’t be a story. By William Davies.
Read more: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n07/william-davies/why-the-outrage?source=Snapzu

Kim Dotcom wins Human Rights Tribunal case, declares extradition bid 'over'

The Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the Attorney-General broke the law by withholding information from Kim Dotcom, which he says means his extradition case is "over". In July 2015, Mr Dotcom sent an urgent information privacy request to all 28 Ministers of the Crown as well as almost all Government departments, asking for personal information they had on him, including under his previous names.
Read more: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/03/kim-dotcom-wins-human-rights-tribunal-case-declares-extradition-bid-over.html?source=Snapzu

Not rude, just French: fired waiter claims discrimination

A French waiter fired for being "aggressive, rude and disrespectful" says his behavior wasn't out of line -- he's simply, well, French. The restaurant, operated by Cara Operations, accused Rey of violating its code of conduct and said he persisted in his behavior.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-rude-just-french-fired-waiter-claims-discrimination-062908807.html?source=Snapzu

Keep the pennies – they are worth millions of pounds, charities say

Scrapping 1p and 2p coins will damage fundraising for smaller charities, sector warns
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/keep-the-pennies-e2-80-93-they-are-worth-millions-of-pounds-charities-say/ar-BBKd6hR?source=Snapzu

Oldest US gunmaker files for bankruptcy

Remington Outdoor has been in business for more than 200 years but has been hit by slowing sales.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43540708?source=Snapzu

The Kingdom of Bantar Gebang

By Alexandre Sattler // Towering mountains of malodorous, contaminated waste dominate the horizon, and among them, hundreds of families make their living. One young girl had the chance to leave the landfill and to gain an education. Now she has chosen to return, determined to change the lives of those children less fortunate than her.
Read more: https://maptia.com/alexandresattler/stories/the-kingdom-of-bantar-gebang?source=Snapzu

Rumour: Apple to Buy Sony?

That’s the word we are getting from multiple sources in the entertainment — that Apple is to buy Sony Entertainment. Now, this is just a rumour, and we’ve heard speculation before, but this is now a rumour that a number of very well-placed individuals believe to be true. If so, to paraphrase Tom Baker, the moment may well have been prepared for. Apple recently announced that they would be spending more than $1 billion a year on original content and in June last year hired Sony Pictures chiefs Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg to lead that expansion. And Sony TV’s Max Aronson and Ali Woodruff as development executives.
Read more: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/22/rumour-apple-buy-sony/?source=Snapzu

The Former Khmer Rouge Slave Who Blew the Whistle on Wells Fargo

After Duke Tran escaped from slavery, but before he became a millionaire, he was a Wells Fargo employee. He worked at the bank’s debt-collections center near Portland, Ore., talking on the phone to customers who owed Wells Fargo money. It wasn’t glamorous, but the job enabled him to afford a two-story suburban house with mustard-colored aluminum siding. After more than three decades in the United States, Mr. Tran felt that he was the living embodiment of the American dream.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/business/wells-fargo-whistleblower-duke-tran.html?source=Snapzu

War, Not Scandal, Is What Will End Donald Trump

A review of the Clinton and Bush years reminds us what really dooms a presidency. By T.A. Frank.
Read more: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/war-not-scandal-is-what-will-end-donald-trump?source=Snapzu

Binance Moves To Malta As Prime Minister Issues Public Welcome

In a fresh move confirmed by CEO Zhao Changpeng March 23, Binance will set up an office in the European nation and will close the requisite banking partnerships “soon,” Bloomberg reports. Binance has continued its astronomical rise which saw it overtake all other global exchanges’ volumes in January.
Read more: http://bitcoinist.com/binance-malta-prime-minister-welcome/?source=Snapzu

Craigslist shuts down its personals section

Craigslist is shutting down its personals section. The service announced on Friday it will no longer operate the portion of its website that allows individuals to seek encounters with strangers. The move comes two days after the Senate approved of bipartisan legislation called the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/23/technology/craigslist-personals-shutdown/index.html?source=Snapzu

Let’s stop pretending Facebook cares

The really great thing to come out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal is that Facebook will now start doing that thing we were previously assured at every turn they were doing all along. And all it took was everyone finding out about the harvesting and sale of everyone's data to right-wing zealots like Steve Bannon for political power. Not Facebook finding out, because they already knew. For years. In fact, Facebook knew it so well, the company legally threatened Observer and NYT to prevent their reporting on it; to keep everyone else from finding out.
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/23/let-s-stop-pretending-facebook-cares/?source=Snapzu

Spotify says about two million users suppressing ads without paying

Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA [SPOT.N] said on Friday about 2 million of its non-paying users were suppressing advertisements, highlighting a potential revenue risk for the soon-to-be public company. Spotify had 157 million active users as of Dec. 31, of which about 71 million were paid subscribers who access ad-free versions of the service.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spotify-advertising/spotify-says-about-two-million-users-suppressing-ads-without-paying-idUSKBN1GZ1WK?source=Snapzu

Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat may be the food of the future

Vegetarians have long touted the ethical and environmental problems with meat production and consumption. Start-ups such as MosaMeat, JUST and Memphis Meats are tissue-engineering meat in a lab to allow people to enjoy being a carnivore without any of the environmental or ethical hang-ups. Dubbed clean meat, the efforts are distinct from "fake meat," like the soy protein "chicken" you can find in your grocery store today. Unlike Morningstar or Boca Burgers, clean meat really is meat; it just grows in a lab instead of being part of an animal. But lab-grown meat leads most skeptical diners to think of a big hurdle: taste.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/bill-gates-and-richard-branson-bet-on-lab-grown-meat-startup.html?source=Snapzu

US family found dead in Mexican resort

A family of four from Iowa have been found dead inside their rented holiday home in Mexico, authorities say. The Sharp family had been expected to attend a basketball game in Illinois on Wednesday. A missing person report was filed after they did not show up. The incident took place in the popular resort of Tulum, according to the Mexico Tourism Board.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43523000?source=Snapzu

Cambridge Analytica breach results in lawsuits filed by angry Facebook users

In the wake of the ongoing Cambridge Analytica debacle, Facebook has now been sued in federal court in San Francisco and San Jose. These new cases claim violations of federal securities laws, unfair competition, and negligence, among other allegations.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/cambridge-analytica-breach-results-in-lawsuits-filed-by-angry-facebook-users/?source=Snapzu

Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country

The company powers much of the Internet, but its cloud facilities are difficult to find. By Ingrid Burrington. (Jan. 8, 2018)
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazon-web-services-data-center/423147/?source=Snapzu

Cryptocurrency Backed by Habanero Peppers Is a Thing in Mexico

A cryptocurrency called Agrocoin is giving buyers a chance to invest in some of the world’s spiciest peppers.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/crytpocurrency-backed-by-habanero-peppers-is-a-thing-in-mexico?source=Snapzu

Former Blockbuster owner dies at 80

The college dropout made his fortune in waste disposal before he owned the video store chain.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43521035?source=Snapzu

100 companies that accept bitcoin

Have you wondered how easy it would have been if you could book a flight with just a few clicks? I’m not talking about an online booking feature which directs you to a payment gateway. It’s 2018 and the Internet is ever expanding. Super responsive designs, AI, and virtual reality have made a mark and many websites are adapting to these technologies. But one major phenomenon that jolted the whole world was cryptocurrencies and more importantly, the most famous one – Bitcoin.
Read more: https://unblock.net/companies-that-accept-bitcoin/?source=Snapzu

Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting

Facebook Inc.’s failure to safeguard privacy was blamed in an investor lawsuit for a slump in its share price that followed the revelation user data was harvested without permission by a research firm connected to U.S. President Donald Trump.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/facebook-sued-by-investors-over-voter-profile-harvesting?source=Snapzu

Toys R Us liquidation sales begin today. Here's what to know before you shop.

Toys R Us expects to kick off its going-out-of-business sales Friday, a week after announcing plans to sell or close all of its U.S. stores. The company had said it expected the sales to start Thursday. But there's been a delay, a company spokesperson said Thursday morning. It now expects sales to likely start Friday.
Read more: http://www.bhmgnews.com/bh/article_a9f5e380-2dc6-11e8-9e5a-10604b9f0f43.html?source=Snapzu

The Secret Cherry taking over Canada

Able to survive temperatures as low as -40C, Saskatchewan’s prairie cherries are tarter than traditional sweet cherries and can be eaten straight from the tree.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180321-the-secret-cherry-taking-over-canada?source=Snapzu

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Speak About Data Crisis in Next 24 Hours

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to speak up shortly to address a barrage of criticism for the social-media company’s handling of the private data of millions of users.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/facebook-s-zuckerberg-to-speak-in-next-24-hours-on-data-crisis??source=Snapzu

Berlin mayor backs ‘basic income’ to tackle capital’s unemployment

Berlin Mayor Michael Müller has called for an end to the controversial Hartz IV welfare system, saying that every jobless Berliner should have the right to a basic income. The Social Democrat (SPD) politician told the Berliner Morgenpost that he wants to see an overhaul of the welfare system, with Hartz IV to be replaced by a “solidary basic income” model. Hartz IV was one of the biggest components of the major labour market reform, which was adopted in the mid-2000s by the then red-green federal government under Gerhard Schröder (SPD).
Read more: https://www.thelocal.de/20180320/berlin-mayor-backs-basic-income-to-tackle-capitals-unemployment?source=Snapzu