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Gallo Images/Getty Images A new Chrome browser update that will automatically block certain kinds of ads has some people in the digital-ad world on edge. Google says the new ad restrictions are driven by research conducted by an industry-wide group called the Coalition for Better Ads, which examined the kinds of ads that most annoy consumers. […]
Flickr/Jason McELweenie Working long hours has become a status symbol in the US. Sometimes that example is set by a company’s top executives, who are in the office from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., then sending emails until midnight. But some execs are forging a different path, showing the importance of work-life balance by limiting their […]
Under Armour The president’s manufacturing council of business leaders lost three of its members Monday, and a fourth on Tuesday. The companies, particularly Under Armour and Intel, are being lauded and actually getting a brand boost on social media. According to data crunched by Brandwatch, 88.6% of the conversation around Intel and 89.4% of the conversation around Under […]
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Getty Images/Sara D. Davis Leaders from over 50 companies including Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, Halliburton, Shell, and ExxonMobil sent a letter to Governor Greg Abbott on Monday urging a defeat of the state’s “bathroom bill,” which would discriminate against trans individuals by requiring people to use the bathroom corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate […]
Courtesy of Hiroshi Hiroshi is an unusual restaurant for an unusual clientele. Located in Los Altos, California, the newly-opened Japanese restaurant accommodates only eight people per night and has no menus, no windows, and one table. Dinner costs at minimum $ 395 a head, but averages between $ 500 and $ 600 including beverages and […]
Goldman Sachs When David Solomon isn’t helping run one of Wall Street’s most powerful banks, he is manning the mixers under the stage name DJ D-Sol, according to Kate Kelly at the New York Times. The Goldman Sachs co-chief operating officer and president recently shared a 30-second video on his private Instagram account of his performance […]
IN 2008, as banks cracked on both sides of the Atlantic, Britain’s government prepared to shore up tottering lenders. It eventually poured £45bn ($ 71bn) into the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and £20.3bn into Lloyds, which ministers coaxed into buying the stricken HBOS. Barclays, however, needed no such help: the bank raised enough equity […]
Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is out. In the wake of a series of scandals and a report recommending wide-ranging changes at the company, the executive announced he was taking a leave of absence earlier this month — and he has now resigned. Kalanick’s departure is the latest and most consequential example yet […]
Enlarge / Oil processing towers and gas processing infrastructure stand at the Exxon Mobil Corp. (credit: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images) On Wednesday, 62.3 percent of investors in oil giant Exxon Mobil voted for the company to produce an annual report on the impacts of climate change policies on the company’s business. The resolution, which […]
