Wake Up Call: How Uber’s Law Department Kept Cops in the Dark

• Uber’s law department developed a tool, dubbed “Ripley,” that allowed the company to remotely lock down office computers during police raids, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg Businessweek. Some say Uber’s use of that system to shield sensitive information, frustrating dozens of foreign raids into late 2016, may have constituted obstruction of justice. ( Bloomberg Businessweek )

• Apple Inc. may stand to get a tax boost of as much as $4 billion from a potential loophole in President Donald Trump’s hastily assembled tax overhaul, while Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. may also make out nicely, according to a Harvard ...