Editor's Pick: Zenefits Pays the Piper

Richard Adhikari Dec 1, 2016 11:44 AM PT
	The California Department of Insurance this week announced fines totaling $7 million against startup Zenefits, a provider of cloud-based human resources services. The company's former leadership "created an anything goes culture at the Internet startup, resulting in numerous violations of licensing requirements to protect consumers," said Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. [More...]

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Demandbase's CEO Chris Golec: Finding the Companies That Should Be Buying From You
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Beware of Wildly Inconsistent Online Shopping Rules
Before you sit down at your kitchen table and lose money shopping for Christmas and holiday gifts, you'd be well advised to learn the rules of the online shopping road. They can be very different from one vendor to another, so shop carefully. Some companies do a great job with customer care. Others don't. I have been both delighted and burned several times, and I'd like to share some of my personal experiences to help you shop more safely. [More...]

Fact-Checking Social Content
There's an argument that it's not Facebook's job to fact-check the growing flood of fake news coming at us through its portal. After all, Facebook is just a set of pipes delivering something and is not responsible for the content. Nebulous others have that responsibility. However, Facebook is in the business of delivering content to a wide variety of people for a multitude of reasons. [More...]

It's All Aboard for Linux Gamers at The Final Station
The developers of The Final Station, recognizing the growing market for the post-apocalyptic train ride in the open source community, have made their hot-selling title available for the Linux OS. The indie game, which Do My Best Games and TinyBuild launched for PC, Mac, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this summer, became available for Linux last week. [More...]

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Beware of Wildly Inconsistent Online Shopping Rules
Samsung Floats Possibility of Split
China's Business-Unfriendly Cybersecurity Stance
Demandbase CEO: Finding the Companies That Should Be Buying From You

Today's Story Highlights

Beware of Wildly Inconsistent Online Shopping Rules

Before you sit down at your kitchen table and lose money shopping for
Christmas and holiday gifts, you'd be well advised to learn the rules of
the online shopping road. They can be very different from one vendor to
another, so shop carefully. Some companies do a great job with customer
care. Others don't. I have been both delighted and burned several times,
and I'd like to share some of my personal experiences to help you shop
more safely.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84124.html

Samsung Floats Possibility of Split

Samsung has announced road map for a corporate restructuring that might
include splitting itself into two. The company has retained external
advisors to review the optimal corporate structure for its activities.
The review is expected to take six months. Depending on the findings,
Samsung may create a holding company structure and might list its shares
on additional international exchanges.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84121.html

China's Business-Unfriendly Cybersecurity Stance

China's parliament earlier this month passed a law aimed at addressing
the country's concerns about hacking and terrorism, which has spiked
concerns among foreign businesses and human rights advocates. One
interpretation of the new law is that it only codifies China's existing
cybersecurity practices. However, 46 global business groups across a
variety of industries didn't see it that way.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84117.html

Demandbase CEO: Finding the Companies That Should Be Buying From You

"Account-based marketing is really about marketing to the accounts that
are aligned with your sales team," said Demandbase CEO Chris Golec. It's
been done for years, but today there's a whole technology and practice
around being able to market to accounts at scale, and this wasn't
possible until about four or five years ago. It's a focused, targeted
marketing approach."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84101.html

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The Morning After: Netflix offline arrives and IBM's Watson is your future doctor

It's Thursday, December 01, 2016.

Welcome to December!

Today Nikes start lacing themselves, Netflix cuts the cord and the FBI’s reach just got a lot longer.

Binge unplugged

Netflix rolls out offline viewing support on Android and iOS

After hinting at it several times this year, Netflix has finally delivered on one of its most-requested features. Subscribers can download a limited selection of its content for viewing even without an internet connection. As Devindra Hardawar points out, the move was inevitable after Amazon Prime expanded caching support last year, but is it enough to keep you happy?

Back to the present

A first look at Nike’s self-lacing sneakers

Power laces are real. The HyperAdapt 1.0 hits the streets today, but Edgar Alvarez got an early look. Nike says one charge is enough to keep that E.A.R.L. motor grinding away for a couple of weeks, but your biggest problem could be getting your hands on a pair of the $720 sneakers.

We only have ourselves to blame

The 2017 patch for “League of Legends” is heavily influenced by players

Riot Games’ Greg Street explains the impetus behind upcoming changes for the popular MOBA, saying “we want to create a good environment for all players.” That means keepingeSports pros and average joes happy using the same ruleset, across a base of 103 million players. “League of Legends” patch 6.24 goes live December 7th with a new practice mode,changes to the jungle, post-game replays and more.

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It’s early

DirecTV Now hands-on

AT&T’s new internet TV service is… a lot like the other internet TV offerings we’ve seen. Testing DirecTV Now streaming via Apple TV revealed a better UI than the one Sling TV offers, but right now, it can’t match the DVR feature of PlayStation Vue.

Phabulous

Motorola's president says a Tango Moto mod is "likely”

We didn’t immediately fall in love with Lenovo’s Project Tango-packing Phab 2 Pro, but what if you could buy its reality-measuring sensors as an add-on? At a Chicago event, Motorola Mobility president Aymar de Lencquesaing said that the Lenovo subsidiary is "likely to have a Tango module" for the Moto Z line of smartphones, so stay tuned.

If they have a warrant, it doesn’t matter where you are

Senate fails to stop FBI's expanded hacking authority

nate fails to stop FBI's expanded hacking authority
A Senate effort to stop an expansion of the FBI’s authority to hack computers has failed. A rule change going into effect today means judges can issue warrants that let it hack computers regardless of jurisdiction. Senators like Ron Wyden are concerned about possible unintended consequences, and he called it “one of the biggest mistakes in surveillance policy in years.”

Long-term planning

The EPA will push to lock in fuel efficiency goals before the Trump administration arrives

In 2012, the EPA set a goal for automakers to double fuel efficiency by 2025. Today, it proposed leaving those rules in place without any updates, citing technical analysis that shows automakers will be able to meet the deadline. The reason for that move? Locking standards in could make it tougher for the incoming administration to reverse or modify the guidelines.

But wait, there's more...

1. Holiday Gift Guide 2016: The Tinkerer

2. The ExoMars mission lost its lander, but its probe is in great shape

3. In IBM's future, Watson will be your doctor

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