Unicorns—startups with at least a $1 billion valuation—used to be as rare in business as they were in fairy tales. No more. According to market research firm CB Insights, there
In early October, Attorney General William Barr wrote an open letter to Facebook, urging the company to abandon plans to expand its use of end-to-end encryption (which ensures messages can
Everything is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) these days, if you took stock of manufacturers’ claims and general hype. Don’t, because there are a lot of misconceptions and misleading out
Data is something business journalists need to use, whether it is statistics about unemployment or information about company revenues. Sometimes data can be difficult to find and even trickier to
Clever fraudsters troll every age group, but tech-savvy Millennials are especially attractive to online scammers, warns the Scam Tracker from the Better Business Bureau(BBB)—25% more likely, in fact, than those
Generally speaking, there are two avenues for selling products: Business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B). Most large information technology (IT) companies get significant portions of the revenue
Social media has become such a fabric of life that it is also now an intrinsic part of how reporters do their work. Stories regularly include analysis of popular responses
Baby boomers beat out tech-savvy millennials in guarding their online security, according to a survey of over 4,000 internet users from 18 to over 65 years old released on March
Oxford University and Reuters did a big study of how U.K. media covered artificial intelligence. Here are some of the major points: About 60 percent of articles focused on new
During a major data breach in December 2018, cybercriminals stole the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and passport numbers of up to 500 million people in the Starwood guest
For a timely story relating to data breaches, focus your reporting on tax-related scams, which increasingly threaten consumers’ financial security. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a “dirty dozen”
Online sources have become important in business journalism. Not sources in the sense of finding data somewhere or pouring through regulatory filings or a company’s website. Instead, there’s an increase
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