© Reuters. A passerby walks past an electric monitor displaying various countries’ stock price index outside a bank in Tokyo, Japan, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File photo By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – MSCI’S global equities ended Friday’s choppy session slightly lower as investors prepared for a likely U.S. government shutdown and adjusted portfolios...
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO:Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo By Lewis Krauskopf, Shashwat Chauhan and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) – The ended lower on Friday as investors digested implications of a U.S. inflation report for the Federal Reserve’s...
Erin Harkless Moore was always interested in math. So, she headed to Wall Street. “It was intoxicating in some ways and incredibly fast-paced,” she recalls. She apparently enjoyed that life, too, given that she worked there for almost two decades before becoming an investment advisor at Cambridge Associates. Then, three years ago, Melinda French Gates’...
Illustration: The Verge Google just announced it’s giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company’s AI models while remaining accessible through Google Search. The new tool, called Google-Extended, allows sites to continue to get scraped and indexed by crawlers like the Googlebot while avoiding having their...
A worker smooths a sample of concrete mix in a canister that contains materials to lower the overall embodied carbon in concrete. | Image: Dan DeLong for Microsoft To clean up some of the pollution stemming from its supply chain and data centers, Microsoft is experimenting with new kinds of concrete. Cement, a key ingredient...
The concept of a data mesh has been around for a few years. At a high level, it’s a data platform architecture that allows users to access data without transferring it to one of two places: a data lake, or a centralized repository for storing data at scale; or a data warehouse, an enterprise system...
With data being considered the new oil, India, the world’s second-largest internet market after China, is looking to establish a dedicated entity to manage the data it generates and set up rules and regulations for non-personal and anonymized personal data. The Indian government plans to propose setting up of a body, called the National Data...
As government and banking services move away from verifying identities in the real world, moving toward online ID verification, several companies have entered the market to solve this problem. A new startup from France is entering the market with a solution that, in theory, should protect people’s privacy. ShareID spokesperson Eliana Daboul described the company...
Illustration: Beatrice Sala A ransomware gang used a zero-day exploit in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer to steal thousands of companies’ data, affecting over 60 million people. Continue reading… Source: The Verge
Pension plans for the largest U.S. companies are at their healthiest in over a decade, according to financial services firm Aon (NYSE:). The average pension “funded ratio” for public companies in the stock index was 102% as of last Thursday, marking the highest level since at least the end of 2011 when the ratio stood...