6 Most Important Things in Business Today

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Mar 13, 3:51PM EDT · Published Nov 22, 5:07AM EST

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Meg Whitman, a long time leader of several tech companies, will retire as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprises (NYSE: HPE) early next year

Uber paid a hacker $100,000 to cover up a breach of its systems that exposed the records of 57 million customers and drivers.

“Net neutrality” may be over. According to The New York Times:

The Federal Communications Commission plans to scrap net neutrality rules requiring broadband providers to give consumers equal access to all content on the internet.
A rollback of the regulations would represent a significant victory for broadband and telecom companies like AT&T and Comcast and would amount to a strike against consumers.

The Financial Times reports that the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone X was sometimes built by illegal workers at electronics firm Foxconn. Some of these workers were students who were threatened about their chances to graduate.

Apple has done research on advanced versions of self-driving cars. According to CNBC:

Apple computer scientists revealed a new method that self-driving could use to detect pedestrians and cyclists in a recently-published research paper, giving a rare glimpse into the U.S. technology giant’s work in the field.

In the paper from November 17 published in online journal arXiv, Apple researchers Yin Zhou and Oncel Tuzel discussed the advancements they have made in being able to detect 3-D objects.

Current object detection systems rely on “LiDAR” technology. This works by shining light onto a surface and measuring how long it takes to return in order to figure out how far an object is and create an image of its shape.

Time, Inc. (NYSE: TIME) management has made an effort to stop a takeover by Meredith (NYSE: MDP). According to The New York Post:

Time Inc.’s top management huddled with a number of major shareholders on Nov. 16, and one source said he came away convinced management was still committed to a long-term turnaround plan — not the takeover plan that Meredith is floating.

“There still seems a little bit of resistance” to the idea of selling the company, the source said.

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.