United Airlines briefly stops all of its U.S. and Canadian flights.
United Airlines briefly paused flights nationwide on Friday morning amid reports of a system outage.
The airline issued a ground stop on all its traffic in the United States and Canada, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s website.
In a statement before 8 a.m., the airline said it had “experienced technical system issues” and that all systems were working normally again.
“We are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible,” the company wrote on Twitter, addressing consumer complaints. “We’re sorry for the inconvenience.”
Airlines occasionally pause flights, known as a ground stop, for technical reasons. Often, the stops are temporary and service resumes quickly after, though not without causing delays and possibly even some cancellations. Sometimes, a ground stop can be part of a more lasting disruption.
The investment banking giant Goldman Sachs planted its flag far from any of the world’s major financial centers this week, opening a new office in Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city after London. So far, about 100 people have been hired or moved there.
At the office’s opening, Richard Gnodde, the head of Goldman Sachs International, spoke about Goldman’s future in Britain after Brexit and how the investment bank’s return-to-office plans were progressing. The conversation was condensed and edited for clarity.
Post-Brexit agreements between Britain and the European Union aren’t forthcoming, so British regulators are reviewing a lot of their financial rules. Is there anything you want to see changed?
Where we would want change is redundant, unnecessary regulation, which pushes up our cost of production because we are filing reports that no one ever looks at.
There’s a set of rules that right now is identical given that we were all joined up 12 months ago. If, on the margin, either side starts tinkering with those rules so there’s just a marginal difference, but no real benefit, we can’t then apply one set of processes across the board. Let’s not make changes for changes’ sake.
Do you expect to move more staff out of London?
We are done with the work that we needed to do for Brexit. But our teams will continue to evolve. And so there will be movement from here into Europe.
Are you planning more acquisitions in Europe?
To the extent that we saw further interesting acquisition opportunities across the asset management space, we’d be interested in that. And something potentially in the consumer space.
You removed social distancing in your British offices, returned them to full occupancy and encouraged staff to return. Did you feel something was lost when most people were working from home?
Every year, we bring a lot of people into the firm. And how do you integrate, how do you train those people? Memories fade. The office is our center of gravity, absolutely crystal clear. People should be spending the majority of their time in the office, but around that there can be flexibility.
Why did you choose Birmingham for the new office?
We looked up and down the U.K. One, there is proximity to London, which is helpful. But the talent base is deep and it’s broad and it’s diverse. And there’s an efficiency, a cost advantage. Both of those things are obviously important. We opened our office in London just over 50 years ago. It’s taken us 50 years to go to the next step in the U.K.
Erin Griffith (@eringriffith) and Erin Woo (@erinkwoo), two of our tech reporters, are covering the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, who dropped out of Stanford University to create the blood testing start-up Theranos at age 19 and built it to a $9 billion valuation and herself into the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire — only to flame out in disgrace after Theranos’s technology was revealed to have problems.
Follow along here or on Twitter as she is tried on 12 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The trial is generally held Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
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That’s it for today.??⚖️
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Erin Griffith
So far the theme of the cross-exam of Cheung seems to be using excruciatingly arcane details about the processes and procedures of the Theranos lab to show that its work was very complicated, involving lots of smart, pedigreed people.
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Erin Griffith
Cheung testified that in meetings about quality control failures, Theranos’s lab directors ignored the most obvious possible reason for the failures: “The Edison devices didn’t work.”
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Erin Griffith
Trial gear alert: A reporter brought their own binoculars to see the exhibits on the TV screens.
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Erika Cheung is back on the stand.
She described Theranos’s practice of demoing blood tests for V.I.P.s, where some of the results came from Theranos machines and others from Siemens analyzers.
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Erin Griffith
I should note the woman who clapped and yelled “you’re a good mom!” at Holmes yesterday suddenly stormed out of the courtroom after Judge Davila warned everyone that yelling stuff like that in front of any jurors could cause a mistrial. I don’t see her here today!
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Erin Griffith
Elizabeth Holmes’s entourage is down to just her mom today.
Who’s Who in the Elizabeth Holmes Trial
Erin Woo?Reporting from San Jose, Calif.
Who’s Who in the Elizabeth Holmes Trial
Erin Woo?Reporting from San Jose, Calif.
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, stands trial for two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 10 counts of wire fraud.
Here are some of the key figures in the case →
Reporters at The New York Times are chronicling the prosecution of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos, which promised an innovation in blood testing that prosecutors say was too good to be true. The trial is expected to last four months.
To go deeper into our coverage, here are some of the stories — and a podcast — we recommend.
Schemer or Naïf? Elizabeth Holmes Is Going to Trial.
The trial for the founder of Theranos, the once high-flying blood testing start-up, will cap a saga of Silicon Valley hubris, ambition and deception.
More than 20 years ago, the internet drove an upheaval in the advertising industry. It eviscerated newspapers and magazines that had relied on selling classified and print ads, and threatened to dethrone television advertising as the prime way for marketers to reach large audiences.
Now the push for privacy is upending the ad industry again and disrupting the internet’s lifeblood.
The struggle has entangled tech titans, upended Madison Avenue and disrupted small businesses. And it heralds a profound shift in how people’s personal information may be used online, with sweeping implications for the ways that businesses make money digitally.
The fallout may hurt brands that relied on targeted ads to get people to buy their goods. It may also initially hurt tech giants like Facebook — but not for long. Instead, businesses that can no longer track people but still need to advertise are likely to spend more with the largest tech platforms, which still have the most data on consumers.
Brian X. Chen, our lead consumer technology writer, looks at how the internet is changing and what that means for you.
