Covered this week; Chicago sues Uber over data breach… Lyft gaining on Uber… Matt Lauer bites the dust… Jim Nabors dies at 87… Jimmy Iovine breaks down what’s wrong with the music business… Trump pursues the demolition of government… The dipshit now in charge at the Office of Management and Budget…
November 27, 2017
“After the details of Uber’s May 12, 2014 data breach were revealed to the public, Uber was investigated by a number of state and federal regulators that were concerned about its inadequate data security practices. Uber ultimately promised to bolster its data security policies by, inter alia, adopting protective technologies for the storage, access, and transfer of private information … less than a year later the same failures led to a breach that was one thousand times worse.”
November 28, 2017
“As private companies, neither Lyft nor Uber report operational details or revenue growth. But a variety of companies that track credit card data suggest that over the past few years, Lyft has gained steadily on Uber. In data prepared for USA TODAY by TXN Solutions earlier this year, Uber’s market share had slipped to 75% from 90% since 2015.”
November 29, 2017
America woke up without another one of the most recognizable faces in morning television Wednesday, as the rapid-fire sexual harassment allegations that have been rocking Hollywood and Washington brought down Matt Lauer, one of the most prominent figures to date… I wouldn’t go so far as to say this dude ever struck me as ‘creepy’, which is how I’ve heard him described by others today… but definitely sort of a douchebag… which has similar overtones…
November 30, 2017
Jim Nabors, who rose to fame playing bumbling, wide-eyed gas-station-attendant-turned-Marine Corps recruit Gomer Pyle on two of the most popular TV programs of the 1960s, died Thursday at his home in Hawaii after being in ill health for several years. Nabors’ longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader, whom he married in 2013, confirmed the news to Indianapolis TV station WTHR earlier today. Nabors was 87.
December 1, 2017
It’s been three and a half years since Jimmy Iovine left his role as CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M to run Apple Music, but that doesn’t keep him from thinking about the problems facing labels today — or the rest of the industry for that matter.
December 2, 2017
“Despite its legislative setbacks of the past year, the presidency of Donald Trump has been stunningly effective in its core mission, the dismantling of modern American government as it has evolved since the Progressive Era of the early 20th Century.” Sean Wilentz write for Rolling Stone.
December 3, 2017
“Mulvaney was most famous for wanting to solve the national debt by deploying his sweeping ignorance of global economics as budget policy. Putting him in charge of the OMB was therefore like putting the Baader-Meinhof gang in charge of Lufthansa.” The dipshit now in charge of the Office of Management and Budget.
