Amazon’s New Africa Site Draws Ire in Indigenous People Protest
Amazon.com Inc.’s planned new Africa headquarters in Cape Town is to draw demonstrations Wednesday as indigenous people protest its construction on a heritage site. A march will…
Read moreBoeing Ousts Head of 737 Jetliner Program
(SEATTLE) — Boeing said Wednesday that the head of its 737 program is leaving the company in an executive shake-up weeks after a door panel blew out…
Read moreActivision Blizzard Staff Sign Petition Supporting Labor Lawsuit
Nearly 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard Inc. employees have signed a letter calling the company’s responses to a recent discrimination lawsuit “abhorrent and insulting.” The new…
Read moreHow Dr. Seuss Enterprises CEO Susan Brandt Leads the Iconic Brand
(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) In the wake of a record-high revenue year for Dr. Seuss…
Read moreElon Musk Decided Not to Join Twitter’s Board After All
Twitter said Elon Musk has decided not to join its board, a stunning twist to a week-long saga that’s captivated the tech community and touched off renewed…
Read moreGlobal Business Must Do More to Help Ukraine
On Feb. 22, 2022, I joined a video call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was then facing a terrifying build-up of Russian troops along his country’s…
Read moreStarbucks Wants to Overhaul Its Cup
TEMPE, Arizona — Bethany Patton steps up to the counter and places her pink mug into a shoebox-sized dishwasher. It spins. It whirs. Water splashes inside. After…
Read moreLululemon Founder Pledges Millions to Save Wilderness
Lululemon Athletica Inc. founder Chip Wilson is making his biggest philanthropic gift ever—and one of the largest among Canada’s ultra-rich—to protect vast tracts of wilderness in the…
Read moreBogus Carbon Credits a ‘Pervasive’ Problem, Scientists Warn
A study covering almost 300 carbon offset projects found that the industry’s top registries have consistently allowed developers to claim far more climate-saving benefits than justified. Researchers…
Read moreSchumer Kills Bills Big Tech Feared Most
There’s bad news and there’s good news for Washington’s anti-monopoly movement. The bad news is that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has done precisely what many long…
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