In late 2019, Dawn Isabel was on the hunt for glitches and vulnerabilities in a particular mobile application. She was taking part in the app maker’s “bug bounty” programme — the development stage when a business hires hackers to find weaknesses in its systems. “On TV, it looks exciting, with lots of bright green text,…
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Cybersecurity concerns could once be written off as the preserve of large companies. But, in today’s networked world — where many are still partly working remotely as a result of the pandemic, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is raising cyber warfare threats — that era is long gone. According to Santha Subramoni, global head of…
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Evelina Olago spent her childhood in both Kenya and Ukraine, and it was the stark contrast she observed in the two countries’ economic development that inspired her career. Now, she works at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable investment firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore. “Kenya is a country…
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AGM season is under way. This year, the perennial shareholder questions around pay, climate change and diversity will be asked against a backdrop of war in Ukraine, which has thrown the usual preparatory work off course. Dealmaking and large strategic shifts have been postponed, according to multiple advisers. Meanwhile, activist investors are increasingly shaping the…
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A long, acrimonious legal battle between state Medicaid contractor FamilyCare Inc. and the Oregon Health Authority has ended with the state agreeing to pay $22.5 million to the company. FamilyCare has agreed to donate that money to a medical school in Lebanon, Oregon. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. It was a Pyrrhic victory for FamilyCare’s founder and…
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Big Tech finally has commandments to abide by. Among them: thou shalt not bundle products, and thou shalt permit interoperability between different systems. Penalties for transgressions include a fine of up to 20 per cent of a company’s global turnover, or even a break-up of businesses for recidivists. The advent of the Digital Markets Act…
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The writer is a science commentator Covid-19 is a capricious foe. Just as the UK government updated its “Living with Covid” strategy last month, case numbers began creeping up again. According to the Office for National Statistics, just under 4.3mn people in the UK were infected in the week ending March 19, thanks to the…
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The nonprofit news outlet Injustice Watch provided this article to The Associated Press through a collaboration with Institute for Nonprofit News. For more than a decade, Ananias Ocampo pushed a heavy ice cream cart through the streets of Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood as he waited for knee replacement surgery. When it got too cold for ice…
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As the author of a series that has attracted 1.2bn reads, Rachel Smythe is one of the world’s leading webtoons creators. But in her native New Zealand, almost no one seems to know what she does. “If I go to a party, people will be like: ‘I don’t know what that is,’” said Smythe, whose…
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SAP has made chair Hasso Plattner one of Germany’s richest and most influential entrepreneurs © © 360b/Alamys This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter and is usually available only with a Premium subscription. Are you currently a Standard subscriber? Click here to switch your subscription to Premium. Not yet a subscriber? You…
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