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WISeKey to Present at the Oppenheimer’s Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference on August 7th in Boston
WISeKey to Present at the Oppenheimer’s Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference on August 7th in Boston WISeKey also announced today that its board of directors has approved a proposed listing of its American Depositary Shares on The Nasdaq Stock Market ZUG, Switzerland – August 05, 2019 — WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey”, SIX: WIHN, …
Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet? | Technology
In moments of digital anxiety I find myself thinking of my father’s desk. Dad was a travelling furniture salesman in the 1980s, a job that served him well in the years before globalisation hobbled the Canadian manufacturing sector. He was out on the road a lot, but when he worked from home he sat in …
World’s football bodies urge Saudi Arabia to stop pirate TV service | Media
The world’s biggest football authorities, including those who run the Premier League, World Cup and Champions League, have called on Saudi Arabia to take action to stop a sophisticated, homegrown pirate TV and streaming service that is illegally broadcasting matches internationally. The strongly worded letter from the exasperated sports bodies – including Fifa, Uefa, Germany’s …
Tweet, web, cloud: technology transforms meaning of nature words | Environment
Tweet, web, stream and cloud may once have evoked the wild outdoors, but they are now predominantly used to describe technology, according to new linguistic research. A study of datasets of informal conversations from different decades has found that the implied meaning of some common nature words in Britain has almost completely changed in a …
Twitter won’t ruin the world. But constraining democracy would | Kenan Malik | Opinion
Has the retweet ruined the world? Chris Wetherell, the software developer who built Twitter’s retweet button, thinks so. Introduced in 2009, retweeting transformed the social media landscape, he suggests, by allowing people to pass on information without having bothered to digest it. The result has been “the incentivising of extreme, polarising and outrage-inducing content”. Jack …
Growth in number of users boosts Twitter revenue by a fifth | Technology
Twitter’s revenue rose by almost a fifth year on year, the company reported on Friday, leading to “better-than-expected profitability” of $76m (£61m) in the second quarter of 2019, although this was down from $80m in the same period last year. The results were boosted by strength in US advertising revenue, which was up by 24% …
Itron to Present at Oppenheimer’s 22nd Annual Technology, Internet and Communications Conference and Canaccord Genuity’s 39th Annual Growth Conference
LIBERTY LAKE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that Joan Hooper, Itron’s senior vice president and chief financial officer, will present at Oppenheimer’s 22nd Annual Technology, Internet and Communications conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019 at 10:25 a.m. EDT. Hooper will also present at Canaccord Genuity’s 39th …
Tufin to Present at Oppenheimer 22nd Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tufin® (NYSE: TUFN), a company pioneering a policy-centric approach to security and IT operations, today announced that Ruvi Kitov, CEO and Co-founder, will present at the Oppenheimer 22nd Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 3:05pm ET. Investors may listen to a live webcast of the presentation by logging …
Women And Men Magazines: Standing Up To The Internet
With all the information available on the Internet there has been a slow decline in newspaper sales, and even a decline in those who get their news on television, because the Internet has made it very easy to access information at the click of a button. However, magazines have stood their ground against the electronic …
Breaking up big tech would be a big mistake
JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images EU Commissioner of Competition Margrethe Vestager speaks to reporters after slapping Google with an antitrust fine in March 2019. Congress, with some goading from their competitors, appears eager to apply antitrust enforcement to Facebook FB, -1.21% …