Nov. 12—Due to a reporter's error, an article on Page A2 Saturday about the charges issued against the owner of Morsels in Traverse City incorrectly stated that Ed Witkowski's wife had lived with him in Lewes, Delaware and Wisconsin.
Payback is hell. In a turn of the tables, job seekers are increasingly ghosting employers. That’s according to a new report by Indeed, the online job search platform.
NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees.
Tesla contesting fines after an assembly line worker was injured at the Fremont factory.
Score top-of-the-line fix-it gear at rock-bottom prices, just in time for cold-weather DIY projects.
Gas prices have continued to decline since mid-September. Drivers can now fill their tank for less than $3 per gallon in 11 states.
Pricepally, a Nigerian online grocery store for fresh produce and packaged food, has raised $1.3 million seed funding, backed by Samurai Incubate (a Japanese VC that also participated in the startup’s 2021 pre-seed round), SOSV, ELEA, Hi2 Global, Chui Ventures and ex-Unilever executive David Mureithi. Following the new funding, the startup joins a handful of African food e-commerce startups, including South Africa’s Yebo Fresh and Morocco’s Terraa, that have raised funding this year, as venture capitalists continue to scale back their operations.
A U.S. judge rejected bids by Hyundai and Kia to dismiss litigation by insurers over $1 billion they claim to owe in a social media-inspired car theft spree.
Appeals court rules carmakers can store data permanently and share it. In Washington state, there's no violation until the sharing causes injury.
A recent lawsuit verdict and pending cases could dismantle the traditional commission practice of sellers paying their own real estate agent and the buyer's.
The former program manager of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging whistleblower retaliation after he spoke up about safety issues. The complaint was filed on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. It includes a detailed narrative about program manager Craig Stoker’s efforts over seven months to escalate his concerns about safety and a hostile work environment at Blue Origin.
3M and Dupont get a legal victory as they defend against thousands of cases alleging chemicals used in household items like cookware and fabrics caused harm.
Samsung has admitted that hackers accessed the personal data of U.K.-based customers during a year-long breach of its systems. In a statement to TechCrunch, Samsung spokesperson Chelsea Simpson, representing the company via a third-party agency, said Samsung was “recently alerted to a security incident” that “resulted in certain contact information of some Samsung U.K. e-store customers being unlawfully obtained.” Samsung declined to answer further questions about the incident, such as how many customers were affected or how hackers accessed its internal systems.
Expect Brent crude prices to stay relatively flat next year before falling in 2025, say JPMorgan analysts.
Surveys have become an integral part of many aspects of our lives, but most of them are tedious, leading to ineffective responses and actions. Dinghan Shen and Yuan Xue, two software engineers working in Silicon Valley, recognized an opportunity to leverage the breakthroughs brought by large language models to make surveys more empathetic and engaging. Around six months ago, Shen and Xue, who had been friends since high school, started Trove, a SaaS platform that lets users create conversational surveys powered by GPT-4 and its own fine-tuned models.
Textiles and garments contribute 16% of Vietnam’s total GPD, but it’s challenging for small garment brands to take advantage of the country’s manufacturing prowess. Inflow is stepping into the gap, with a platform that gives small brands visibility into manufacturers' supply chains and the design-to-production cycle. It also helps them meet manufacturers who are willing to produce smaller quantities of garments.
The surprise disclosure of a confidential number negotiated between Google and Apple reverberated across Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
A $4.3 billion pact between Binance and US authorities represents the most high-profile crypto crackdown since the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in 2022.
Truepill, a digital health startup that provides pharmacy fulfillment services for healthcare organizations, has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of more than 2.3 million patients. In a data breach notice published on its website, the company says Postmeds, the parent company behind TruePill, experienced a “cybersecurity incident” that allowed unnamed attackers to gain access to files used for pharmacy management and fulfillment services between August 30 and September 1. Do you have more information about the Truepill data breach?
Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, a Fortune 500 company that provides title insurance and settlement services for the mortgage and real estate industries, announced on Tuesday that it was the victim of a “cybersecurity incident that impacted certain FNF systems.” The company filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) saying that it has launched an investigation, hired “leading experts” to help, alerted law enforcement and “implemented certain measures to assess and contain the incident.” “Among other containment measures, we blocked access to certain of our systems, which resulted in disruptions to our business,” the report read, adding that this affected services related to title insurance, escrow, other title-related services and mortgage transactions.
U.S. access and identity management giant Okta says hackers stole data about all of its customers during a recent breach of its support systems, despite previously stating that only a fraction of customers were affected. Okta confirmed in October that a hacker used a stolen credential to access its support case management system and steal customer-uploaded session tokens that could be used to break into the networks of Okta customers. Okta told TechCrunch at the time that around 1% of customers, or 134 organizations, were affected by the breach.
