Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General is accusing Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. in a lawsuit of conspiring with retailers to set a higher minimum price for contact lenses.
The civil lawsuit, filed by the AG’s antitrust division, says the nation’s largest maker of contact lenses violated…
“Secure communications are fundamental to the exercise of freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age,” the UN’s David Kaye wrote in an amicus brief.
David Kaye, the free speech rapporteur for the United Nations, has expressed his support for Apple in its encryption impasse with the FBI, BuzzFeed News reports. For the past two weeks, Apple has pushed back against a court order requesting that the company grant the FBI access to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone.
The company is already responding to customer queries at @AppleSupport—so you can stop tweeting in vain to @Apple.
Apple has long shied away from Twitter. While the company has opened accounts for specific products like Apple Music and iTunes, Apple has opted not to have a main account (which explains the many confused queries directed at @Apple, an account that has never tweeted but boasts 37,400 followers). But on Thursday, Apple started the account @AppleSupport, which will field customer service inquiries and offer tips, tutorials, and other information.
The company’s CEO, Andy Conrad: The most important tool in medicine is a computer
Anyone can use a search engine like Google to locate the nearest seafood restaurant, or the best school in their neighborhood. But medical researchers don’t have an easy way to type in questions and receive meaningful answers.
As Uber continues its $250 million expansion in the Middle East and North Africa, it’s adjusting its service to address local issues.
Uber launched in Pakistan on Thursday, but drivers in the country, unlike those in most of Uber’s 69 markets, will need to attend a seminar about sexual harassment before they can accept passengers through the ride-hailing app.
You don’t need to be married to your job in order to get ahead.
Advancing in your career means putting in more hours, taking on more assignments, and becoming “married to your job,” right? No, say career coaches. Overachievers who live at the office tend to burn out fast and often neglect doing the very things they need to do in order to advance. In doing too much, they do too little. Being 100% committed to your work doesn’t guarantee you a promotion. So how can you get ahead without making work your life?
A new study examines the reasons why women are less likely to be considered for positions abroad.
Moving employees through different departments gives them a more holistic experience of a company. Moving them to offices in other countries is not only good for their personal career growth, but is also a positive driver of business success, according to data from PwC.
You probably spend nearly half your workweek in meetings, and most of them have no agenda. Here’s seven steps to make them less painful.
Meetings are like burpees: They drain your energy and nobody likes them. About 40% of the average workweek is spent in meetings, and more than half of participants would rather be waiting in line at the DMV or watching paint dry, according to a poll by software company Clarizen.
Comments sections are increasingly useless and nasty. Hypothes.is thinks it has a better way to make the Internet more democratic.
Larry Hanley, an English professor at San Francisco State University, is the kind of man who aggressively annotates his books. He believes a particularly beautiful verse of poetry deserves to be underlined; a thought-provoking line of prose requires an equally intelligent comment scribbled next to it. In his classroom, he gently nudges his students to engage with books by writing notes in the margins.
Lemonade.io wants to help prepare people for the future of the global economy, when creativity will be at a premium.
Angad Singh thinks there’s a good chance that within 20 years, your job will no longer exist. And if it does, a bot will do it.
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