There was a lot of news today about the genetics testing company 23andMe filing for bankruptcy and one thing that immediately came to people’s mind was how a large database of people’s genetics can essentially be sold to anyone. Therefore, a lot of sources were encouraging people to request to have their information deleted from
I always question this when executives in a company simply treat people like a number and then attempt to make decisions just solely on what numbers tell them. In this case, it seemed like there was a person that tried to tie the success of his sales team to certain courses that they took. Therefore,
Many times when it comes to making money companies will do their research on what they think the market will pay and then adjust prices accordingly if they are getting no sales. There was a recent example that was interesting where a company essentially tried to charge it userbase more while introducing new small fees
This was a nice surprise even though I don’t think I will have a use for it. During this Rogers and Shaw merge the company Freedom mobile had to be sold off in order to prevent a monopoly of sort. Now previously with the Rogers story it seems like the rate changes didn’t seem competitive
I was reading news today on how the company Sobeys have had their systems compromised with ransomware. As you would expect, a lot of their computers had messages demanding that they pay up or else their information will be released publicly as an example. What was insetting based on reports though was that the company
There were some interesting news today where for the company Facebook may encounter a situation where they will be blocked from transfer data in Ireland to other places such as the US. While this most likely stems from security reason, data is big business for a lot of companies that offer its products and services