Has found political ad spending linked to fake accounts from russia in the runup to the u. S. President ial election. But first to our lead, dell completed the biggest Tech Acquisition in history of emc one year ago. The Historic Deal created the new dell technology. Which included the likes of dell, dell emc, vmware, and secure works. Dell faced several major legal and regulatory hurdles along with emc and zmware stockholder skepticism. I sat down with michael dell and asked him for the oneyear report card. Michael i am very pleased with how its going. Reaction from partners and customers has been very strong and positive. Our teams are very engaged. Our customer nps scores have continued to improve. Our Employee Engagement scores, our record high levels of synergies are coming bigger and faster than we thought. We are paying down debt at an aggressive pace. A lot of things that could go wrong did not go wrong. And i think the big surprise is we have not had a lot of surprises. And ce
Even be thinking about now are actually coming up much closer and much faster and you expect. A lot of times we talk about a. I. And tech, but we want to talk about the lesserknown trends. We talk about china and Live Streaming, the challenges facing the urban centers, mapping where tech is really exhilarating. You are not hearing as much about them. Taking them to the next level into spaces where we know it is happening. We just did not think it was happening so fast. Oliver yeah, i have to be honest. Reading through the content this week i feel it goes possibly going back and forth between this is exciting and this is absolutely terrifying. Megan one of the covers will be look at a. I. , i have a two and a halfyearold so i see a baby younger than that. An artificial baby mapping the human brain and learning emotion and responsibility that is developing is a little frightening. They should give us hope in terms of only look at the profound socialpolitical disruption. It is the story o
In chief megan murphy. A story on synthetic Identity Theft. I had not heard of this. Megan it is a really troubling and quite spooky story about how fraudsters are doing Something Different than just stealing existing identities. They are actually compiling their own identity. What is so fascinating is its a long game. This can take months, even years to pay off. They have to keep establishing the identity, keep applying for credit for the ultimately cash out. Oliver it is like a weird ponzi scheme of credit fraud. What is interesting is you guys detailed somebody in the story, the actual degree to which they are able to do this. 340,000 using credit cards. A fleet of vehicles. How does it get so out of control . Megan they basically try to come up with Social Security numbers they might be going to be used that have not been used, or they take an existing number. They will use it to apply for credit with no address. The Credit Card Companies frequently reject these applications. But o
Carol we are here with editorinchief megan murphy. And in the finance section a , story on synthetic Identity Theft. I had not heard of this. Megan it is a really troubling and quite spooky story, about how fraudsters are doing Something Different than just stealing existing identities. They are actually compiling their own identity. What is so fascinating is its a long game. This can take months, even years to pay off. They have to keep establishing the identity, keep applying for credit for the ultimately cash out. Oliver it is like a weird ponzi scheme of credit fraud. But what is interesting about this is, you guys detailed somebody in the story, the actual degree to which they are able to do this. 340,000 using credit cards. A fleet of vehicles. I mean, how does it get so out of control . Megan heres what they do. They basically try to come up with Social Security numbers they might be going to be used that have not been used, or they take an existing number. They will use it to a
Venezuela, it was an emerging market that was firing on all cylinders. Different story today. Megan incredibly different story. The thing i like about this piece is exactly that issue you bring up. There is a quote that says they cant picture a country that has fallen so quickly, so fast, not just economically or markets, but the actual impact on people. It is so alarming. The average venezuelan is losing 19 pounds, the struggle to get access to food. Oliver does this signal a change of ideology or regime shift in terms of political ideology within latin america . Megan absolutely. You have hugo chavez of the most prominent example of someone who swept in on this populist hide. Latin america was populist long before we were populist. They were traditionally left somewhat a loan. Venezuela had the advantage of having a huge oil economy that was such a large exporter when we had oil prices where they were at the time above 100. There was a tremendous amount of investment down there. It w