Men Initiating Change Is An Important Step Toward Eradicating Tech’s Bro Culture

#GNN #Editor’s note: Telle Whitney is the President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute and co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Connecting, inspiring, and guiding women technologists is he

GM ignition switch fund gets 63 death case claims

#GNN - The lawyer overseeing a General #Motors Co (GM.N) fund set up to compensate victims of accidents caused by faulty ignition switches in its cars said he received claims for cases involving 63 deaths. Kenneth Fe

China's consumer inflation at 2.3 percent in July as forecast

#GNN - #China's consumer inflation came in as forecast at 2.3 percent rise, data showed, reinforcing bets that benign price pressures will give authorities room to relax monetary policy if needed. Data released by th

U.S. productivity bounce-back keeps wage pressures tame

#GNN - #Productivity at U.S. nonfarm #businesses rebounded strongly in the second quarter, putting a lid on wage pressures and giving the Federal Reserve room to keep interest rates low for a while. The Labor Departm

Israel strikes Gaza after militants resume rocket fire

#GNN - Israel launched air #strikes across the #Gaza Strip on Friday in response to Palestinian rockets after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in a month-old war. Egypt later called for a resu

Pfizer confronts surge of lawsuits over Lipitor

#GNN - Pharmaceutical giant #Pfizer is facing a mounting wave of lawsuits by women who allege that the company knew about possible serious side effects of its blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor but never properl

#WHO declares Ebola epidemic an international #health #emergency

#GNN - West #Africa's #Ebola epidemic is an "extraordinary event" and now constitutes an international health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.  The Geneva-based U.N. health agency said t

U.S. judge rules against #NCAA, says athletes can be paid

#GNN - The National Collegiate Athletic Association must allow universities to offer student athletes a limited share of revenue, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday, a decision that cuts to the heart of the NCAA's mission to

When Payment Processing Becomes A Commodity

#GNN - #Editor’s note: Christoffer O. Hernæs is partner at Core Group, a Norwegian management consulting company. Christoffer is currently engaged by Sparebank1, one of Norway’s largest financial institutions; this

Your Lost #Android Phone Can Now Call You

#GNN - Did you know that Android has a built-in mechanism for locating or locking your lost phone? Google hasn’t done the best job marketing it, but it’s actually been baked right in since the release of Android 4.4*

Vine Competitor Groopie Lets #Vloggers Create #TV-Style #Shows Together

#GNN - #YouTube stars are more popular among today’s U.S. teens than Hollywood celebs, a recent study found. Hoping to capitalize on this trend, a new social video network called Groopie has just launched on iPhone,

Obama #orders targeted air strikes, #humanitarian aid drops in #Iraq

#GNN - #President Barack #Obama said on Thursday he had authorized "targeted" U.S. #airstrikes against Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq and military airdrops of humanitarian supplies to besieged religious minori

U.N. chief, Security Council urge #international help for #Iraq

#GNN - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Security Council on Thursday called for the international community to help Iraq's government and people as the country struggles against a sweeping adva

Easing tensions: Key parties back #govt overtures for #PTI talks

#GNN - #PESHAWAR / #ISLAMABAD: Frantic efforts were made to batten down the hatches as a political maelstrom continued to gather pace on Thursday with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif holding another round of meetings wit

Record of Imran's contempt case to be used as documentary evidence in ex-CJ's defamation case, SC told

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: Former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has explained to the Supreme Court that he wants access to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s contempt of court case records so that he

Yahoo To Strengthen Email Encryption

#GNN - #Yahoo will join #Google in providing users of its #email #service with end-to-end #encryption, #helping to keep the private communications of people protected from the prying eyes of governments and hackers ali

Hired Now #Helps Tech #Companies Find Executives

#GNN #Tech - #Hired, a startup working to make recruiting more efficient, has expanded to include a category for VPs of engineering and chief technical officers (CTOs). Engineering Management is now the company’s fif

Wikipedia Picks Up $140,000 In #Bitcoin #Donations In One Week

#GNN - In late July, #Wikipedia announced that it would accept donations in bitcoin. In its first week of accepting bitcoin, Wikipedia racked up $140,000 in new funds, according to Coinbase, the service that powers its

Bikanta’s Tiny #Diamonds Find #Cancer Before It Spreads

#GNN - Y Combinator-backed biotech #company #Bikanta wants to find and stop cancer at its source by inserting tiny, fluorescent diamonds inside your body. The brainchild of Dr. Ambika Bumb, who holds a PhD in biomed