Tag Archives: online

Jan. 6 was ‘a colossal failure’ in tracking online extremism: former Homeland Security whistleblower

As a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration, Brian Murphy got a close look at the failures ahead of the insurrection at the Capitol. His 26-year career at DHS and at the FBI focused on violent extremism and he watched, he said Thursday in a Yahoo Finance Live interview, as those departments failed in 2020 as an early warning system to the emerging threat from then-President Trump’s radicalized supporters. Officials, he says, “were intimidated… Source link

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The Getty, Google Arts, & Banana Craze Create Three Online Shows Worth a Visit

In my search for online exhibitions with compelling presentations and content, I have recently become apprised of three shows that take advantage of the digital medium to display words and images (only one show contains sounds in these examples) in ways that I wouldn’t quite be able to experience IRL. They do all share a basic approach: to use visual and historical examinations of an object or objects to discuss how it has come to be and how… Source link

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COVID helped create ‘a relationship with the restaurant’ via online orders

A challenging year for the restaurant space is ending just as it began: with waves of new COVID-19 infections threatening the outlook as vaccine mandates, labor shortages and inflation make tough service sector jobs even harder.  Yet Krystle Mobayeni, the CEO and founder of restaurant website platform BentoBox, told Yahoo Finance that the Omicron wave has not deterred the embattled industry. Restaurants continue to “get creative” to battle the surge, she insisted, and are using the pandemic… Source link

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Prices for almost everything online are surging: Adobe data

If it feels like your digital wallet is getting a little thinner this holiday season, it’s because it is as online inflation intensifies amid ongoing global supply chain bottlenecks.  Online prices for November rose 3.5% year-over-year, according to new data from Adobe on Thursday, marking the highest increase since 2014. The figure also represents the 18th consecutive month of year-over-year online inflation. “Ongoing supply chain constraints and durable consumer demand have underpinned… Source link

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U.S. Black Friday shoppers tapered online splurge, as some returned to stores

By Arriana McLymore and Richa Naidu    RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – U.S. shoppers spent slightly less online during Black Friday this year, with many venturing back to physical stores despite coronavirus fears, tight supplies, and retailers’ efforts to encourage earlier holiday purchases.    For the first time ever, spending online during Black Friday – traditionally one of the biggest shopping days of the year – fell, reversing the growth of recent years, according to data from… Source link

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Spotify, Discord, and others are coming back online after a brief Google Cloud outage

Sites and services like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Etsy seem to be recovering after an outage that brought them, and many other sites, down for a little less than an hour on Tuesday. The culprit for the outages appears to have been Google Cloud, and the service’s status page still shows a networking issue is currently causing problems resulting in the 404 errors that appeared on affected web pages. An update to the status page posted at 1:17PM ET says “the issue with Cloud… Source link

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Majid Al Futtaim inks Carrefour UAE online delivery deal with Yandex — Retail Technology Innovation Hub

Majid Al Futtaim, which specialises in shopping mall, communities, retail, and leisure across the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia, is teaming with Russian tech giant Yandex to explore autonomous technology solutions that enhance Carrefour UAE’s last mile delivery capabilities. This makes Carrefour the first omnichannel retailer to use self-driving robots for online order delivery in the region.  A pilot, involving customers in select neighbourhoods across the UAE, is set to launch… Source link

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Amazon Q3 results miss expectations as online sales slow after pandemic surge

Amazon (AMZN) reported third-quarter sales and earnings results that missed Wall Street’s estimates, reflecting a growth deceleration after the pandemic stoked a surge in online shopping last year and earlier in 2021.  The company also flagged that it would see additional costs as a result of supply chain challenges in the fourth quarter. Shares dropped by more than 4% in late trading.  Here were the main metrics from Amazon’s report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:

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