Lesar will have to bridge low oil prices with demands for increased profitability. Halliburton Co has disclosed that Jeff Miller will be replacing Dave Lesar, its current CEO who is set to retire on June 1. Lesar has been a… Read More ›
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The Chief of U.S. Pacific Command visits Japan’s East China Sea radar station
The move comes in the wake of North Korea show casing its ICBM capabilities. In a move that is likely to needle China, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command has visited a Japanese radar station on the edge of… Read More ›
To Fill Aviation Industry Gaps, Accelerated Pilot Programs Take Flight
With the aim and intention to fill the 248,000 commercial pilot seats across the Asia-Pacific region within the next two decades, investments in the expedited pilot training programs are being made by private equity firm C&C Alpha Group. “They cannot… Read More ›
Capitol Hill witnesses a flurry of activities as the Trump Administration prepares to trigger NAFTA renegotiations
Although Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross prefers bilateral deals with Mexico and Canada, senate participants have disclosed that things are leaning towards trilateral negotiations. Several members of the Senate Finance Committee have disclosed that the Trump administration aims at keeping the… Read More ›
IEX Group’s Investors’ Exchange will compete with NYSE and NASDAQ
The fact that the NYSE has copied some of IEX’s features show IEX’s threat potential. The SEC has given the New York Stock Exchange the green signal for implementing what is known as a speed bump on one of its… Read More ›
Nasdaq launches a new smart data enhanced initiative
The service makes use of big data gleaned from a variety of sources and uses a subset of artificial intelligence to generate analytics so as to make the resulting information actionable. In what is likely to be a significant development… Read More ›
Intelligence sharing pact with U.S. ally at risk
The Washington Post has reported that U.S. President Donald Trump shared intelligence with Russians without first consulting the source who supplied that piece of intelligence thus endangering intelligence sharing ties amongst U.S. allies. Reuters has reported that U.S President Donald… Read More ›
Misrepresentation of data privacy measures by companies likely to attract lawsuits from the FTC
Lawsuits are likely to follow in the wake of the global ransomeware attack. According to legal experts, businesses which failed to update their Microsoft Windows-based operating system, could be sued over lax cyber security practices, although Microsoft Corp by itself… Read More ›
Cyber tech stocks surge in the wake of the WannaCry attack
Investors are focusing on opportunities that the attack has presented for Tech companies. Cyber security experts have found evidence that point to a North Korea link in the WannaCry “ransomware” global cyberattack that has infected 300,000 devices across 150 countries,… Read More ›
Microsoft slams government for its duplicity on vulnerabilities
The attacks stem from a collection of vulnerabilities collected by the NSA, which collected vulnerabilities and created tools to use the exploits for espionage and cyber attack purposes. The vulnerabilities and the tools were released by a hacking group known… Read More ›
