Facebook Rolls Out Tool To Block Off-facebook Data Gathering

The watch you wear every day can do more than make sure you are on time for your appointments. If you are wearing an Apple Watch, it can also detect a life-threatening irregular heartbeat. Apple has been promoting the wearable technology as a health-monitoring device for a few years, but a recent study by Stanford Health and Apple showed that data from the Apple Watch can detect atrial fibrillation with a high rate of accuracy. Dr.

Pacific Business News held its fourth annual Pineapple 20 Awards event honoring some of Hawaii's most outstanding hospitality professionals on Thursday night. Click through the gallery above to see images from the event. The celebration, which was sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Shidler College of Business, was held at the Hale Koa Hotel and 20 leaders in the travel and tourism industry, along with their co-workers, friends and family, attended the three-hour event to network, eat…

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Facebook—the social media company that has been under intense public criticism for not adequately safeguarding the personal information of its 2 billion users—has suspended tens of thousands of apps for a variety of violations, including improperly sharing private data. In a post published on Friday, Facebook VP of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong said the move was part of an ongoing review that began in March 2018, following revelations that, two years earlier, Cambridge Analytica used the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users to build voter profiles for President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The number of luxury homes sold on Oahu declined by 20% in August, but the median price of those single-family homes and condominiums that sold for $1.5 million or more rose by 13% from the same month last year, according to a report from Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties. There were 44 homes and condos that sold last month for at least $1.5 million, compared to 55 in August 2018, the report said. The median price of those homes sold in August was $2.01 million, compared to $1.77 million during…

Home sales in Honolulu declined in August, but by a smaller percentage than 52 other metropolitan areas tracked by the RE/MAX National Housing Report, indicating a stable market, according to Hawaii broker John Harris. There were a total of 877 closed transactions — single-family homes and condominiums — on Oahu in August, which was a 3.41% decline from July.

The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism’s Small Business Regulatory Review Board launched its new website this week in an effort make regulatory processes more accessible to Hawaii's small businesses. The revamped website features helpful tools like resources for small businesses and organizations, a breakdown of how local businesses can get involved in the state's rule-making process and a page for those wanting to submit a regulation for review.