WITH the rise of conscious living, more people around the world are more mindful of what they leave behind. Much of the discussion has focused on moderating consumption and lifestyle such as driving less to cut down on carbon emissions, eating less meat for animal welfare and...
WASHINGTON: Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder of rocket company Blue Origin, unveiled on Thursday a mockup of a lunar lander spacecraft and discussed missions to the moon in a strategy tailored to the U.S. government's renewed push to establish a lunar outpost in just five years. Bezos ...
Wall Street Journal-owner News Corp reported a surprise quarterly profit on Thursday, driven by strong growth in earnings at its book publishing and subscription video services units.
After a one-year pause, the hedge fund industry schmooze fest organized by Anthony Scaramucci, the investment manager who briefly served as President Donald Trump's communications director, returned to the Las Vegas strip this week.
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday (May 9) held out hopes of salvaging a trade deal with China, just hours before Beijing's negotiators were due to return to the bargaining table amid a sudden flare-up in hostilities. With punishing US tariffs on hundreds of billions in Chinese ...
NEW YORK: One of the co-founders of Facebook called on Thursday (May 9) for the social media behemoth to be broken up, warning that the company's head, Mark Zuckerberg, had become far too powerful. "It's time to break up Facebook," said Chris Hughes, who along with Zuckerberg founded the online...
PARIS: US beverage giant Coca-Cola paid more than €8 million (US$9 million) in France to health professionals and researchers in a bid to influence research, according to an investigation by French newspaper Le Monde published on Thursday (May 9). The newspaper said the aim of the funds was to ...
Facebook Inc co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg's former college roommate Chris Hughes urged U.S. regulators to break up the social media company in a New York Times opinion piece on Thursday.
PARIS/MILAN: French luxury goods group Kering said on Thursday it had agreed to pay 1.25 billion euros (US$1.40 billion) to settle a dispute with Italian tax authorities centered on its fashion brand Gucci. The settlement, first reported by Reuters last month, is the highest ever agreed by a ......
ZURICH: Singapore believes in globalisation and that economic transformation has to continue despite the uncertainty amid significant changes caused by globalisation, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat at the 49th St Gallen Symposium in Switzerland on Thursday (May 9). The key, said Mr Heng ...
