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13 Tools to Improve a Website & Business
The internet has made it easier for people to access information and start businesses. Even with the many…
A flotilla of startups wants to streamline global supply chains
FORTO SEEMS an unlikely tech darling. It does not make gadgets, build the metaverse, forge cryptocurrencies or…
The war in Ukraine is rocking the market for edible oils
WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN’S tanks rolled into Ukraine in late February, crude-oil markets reacted instantly to the…
Facebook’s retirement plan
“WHITE HOT”, a new documentary, traces the rise and fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, an American fashion label that…
Can Chinese big tech learn to love big brother?
JACK MA, CHINA’S most famous entrepreneur, has not been one to mince his words about the role of government and…
Lakshmi Mittal transformed steelmaking. Can his son do it again?
LAKSHMI MITTAL has two passions: the steel industry and his family. His embrace of the first turned a poor boy from…
Media Buying: How to Segment Audience
The modern online market is so large that preparing a product and just waiting for sales is a bad strategy.…
Global E-wallet Transactions Expected to Rise by 60% by 2026
A new report from Juniper Research into the rise of e-wallets indicates that global payments using these vendors…
Porsche and Volkswagen are set to uncouple—at last
PURCHASING A NEW Porsche often involves a long wait. If limited production and aloof dealers weren’t enough of a…
What is Carl Icahn’s beef with McDonald’s?
FOR MOST of his life Carl Icahn was vilified for his abrasive personality and his activism as an investor. His…
Private equity is buying up America’s newspapers
AMERICA’S LOCAL newspapers have been struggling to stay afloat for years. Since 2005 roughly 2,200 of them have…
The unseen costs of dirty work
THE TERM “dirty work” was coined by Everett Hughes, an American sociologist, to capture the attitudes of ordinary…
3 Ways to avoid growing your business too fast
The initial thought of growing your business quickly sounds almost too good to be true. After all, with all the…
The Companies Making Big Strides in the Metaverse
Metaverse is a buzzword right now, with the name mentioned daily across tech, business, and finance-related…
How to Invest in Mineral Rights
Investing in oil and gas Mineral Rights can be a high-risk venture and demands extensive knowledge on the subject.…
Making sense of the East-West divide in tech
THANKS TO A venture-capital (VC) boom, it is no longer unusual to find tech unicorns, as unlisted startups valued…
Unilever’s £50bn health cheque
Purchasing GSK’s consumer-health division may be hard to swallowWHEN UNILEVER bought Bestfoods for $20.3bn at the…
Why Microsoft is splashing $69bn on video games
EVEN FOR Microsoft, which boasts a market value of $2.3trn, $69bn is a lot of money. On January 18th the firm said…
Drinking in the office
Don’t ban, don’t binge and don’t badgerA RATHER GOOD black comedy called “Another Round” depicts what happens when…
After a fat year, tech startups are bracing for lean times
AFTER A STUNNING run during the pandemic, which put a premium on all things digital, tech stocks have hit a rough…