You told me things were very frothy a lots happened since then. The wework had just come out. We know what happened with the wework blowup theres been this sense that you saw with the wag news. Theres been these companies have raised an extraordinary amount of money and pitching themselves as Tech Companies that really went Tech Companies. Wework was not a Technology Company. Swag not really a Technology Company, and the combination of trying to get the technology valuations on companies that shouldnt be trading that way and companies that are just raising too much money and have no financial discipline. Hopefully some of that is coming to an end but i still think valuations are going to be crazy for a while. I think, if anything, this signals the beginning of the end of these shoot the moon sort of Business Plans what i mean by that is we just they dont work for two reasons. One, companies are raising a tremendous amount of money and they do that primarily to try and have some sort of
Why fi has been an undeniable success here it is made web access cheap of the People Living in underserved locations then there are so many People Living i dont want to connect at the. However for those studying the activities of facebook and other Big Tech Companies in kenya its impossible to ignore the huge potential for data mining. Last year facebook was pushed to admit that it had added its own software to the wife i Access Points that enabled non facebook data such as customer names and phone numbers to directly flow to the corporation while Facebook Says the purpose of the software Eastern Shore that hotspots of functioning well theres no clarity on just how much Additional Data is being collected and how thats being used a lot of these companies arent african theyre not even based in kenya in africa forget kenya or longer so what is a kenyan citizenship or if you do want an American Company uses their data yourself their data markets it you know as a product and without their c
Facebook. All of them. With algorithms and that one more than just uses all customers will these businesses would generate is. They need us to like them for them to be indispensable because the more that we use them the more data we produce in the midst of a great race the dot and Big Tech Companies are on the chase. For the past 3 years academics nichol dri analysts have been investigating a phenomenon they call data colonialism. While the scales in context may have changed they say colonialism same underlying functions of empire building extraction and appropriation remain the new langue grab going on theres not land thats being grabbed its us its human life the acquisition the construction of data valuable data to corporate use out of the flow of our lives thats the lag right going on and thats why the workload is the only work that does justice to that lets think for instance of all the and use her license agreements or the terms of use that we read whenever we sign up for a new so
Peering into palantir, our exclusive conversation with alex karp tells us why protesters wont stop them from doing business with the Trump Administration. First, a shakeup at hp, the ceo resigning, leaving the company to attend to a Family Health matter. He will be replaced by the current head of the printing unit of hp. He has been instrumental in improving cost structure and organization, helping profitability. To discuss, ian king and dan morgan. Dan, you have a position in hp. Ian, i will start with you. What more are they saying . I had a chat with them both. He reassured me this is personal and not a decision he took lightly. He has to go back to his native australia to deal with his family situation. If you take him at his word, there is no background story, no corporate scandal, no push out. Emily dan, shares of hp up 55 since he took over in the split with hpe. He has grown revenue, profitability. What is the impact on the company . It is interesting because we go back to meg
Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the west african said hello this used to be a regular occurrence during the dry season and when the rains would come around. There would allow for grasslands to grow again but unfortunately we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall its making the rainy seasons very volatile and less predictable. Still ahead this half hour israel sends tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria after carrying out acts strikes in both countries. And the u. S. Congress you to call