The debate over whether companies can set prices based on information they have about individual customers continues to grow. So-called surveillance pricing is in the news again on reports that Walmart patented technology for dynamic AI pricing about six months after filing for patents related to digital shelf labels. Walmart, faced with a backlash, has
LONDON — The U.K. has “strong indications” that Iran played a part in the incident that saw five men arrested near a U.S.-run military air base in England late at night, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Wednesday. Burnham said U.K. and U.S. officials are carrying out a “complex and serious” investigation into how and why
It took Larry and David Ellison two years to assemble a media behemoth. Now that they’ve bought Paramount, and are about to add Warner Bros. Discovery, the hard part starts: First, they have to figure out how to merge the two companies — and then they have to figure out how to compete with Netflix
It was my birthday and my now-husband and I had been dating for about three months. When he got to my house, he wished me a happy birthday, then he apologized, “I’m sorry I didn’t get you a gift.” At the time, I was 31, had a good job, and could buy whatever I fancied,
The tech guy uniform is full of basic T-shirts and bad haircuts, so I get why Alexandr Wang’s look at Meta Connect is riling Silicon Valley. If you’re used to the black turtlenecks of Steve Jobs and Elizabeth Holmes, or the white T-shirts of Mark Zuckerberg, sure, Wang’s camo-print deer T-shirt and matching Crocs seem
Lindsey Elliott is big into bolts. At last year’s Bolting Symposium — the 13th annual — she said the highlight was playing “Bolting Bingo” against the many self-proclaimed “torque dorks” who were in the room. A former engineer and planner at ExxonMobil, Elliott has spent years thinking about how to improve the infrastructure that moves
