Reflecting an election without end
RaceAhead is back after a brief hiatus and will return to a normal schedule next week. But first, here’s your post-U.S. Election week in rev...
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Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Friday, 13 November 2020
Monday, 9 November 2020
Regulations could speed up, not slow down, A.I. progress
Andy Taylor has a goal both modest and ambitious: bring artificial intelligence, or A.I., to air traffic control for the first time. A caree...
Creating a COVID vaccine is only half the battle
Shares of drug giant Pfizer soared nearly 8% at market close Monday as the company announced that its coronavirus vaccine candidate was hig...
Who is Lael Brainard? What to know about Biden’s likely pick for Treasury Secretary
President-elect Biden is starting to assemble his cabinet, and Democrats are angling to influence who he will choose for the positions. One...
Friday, 6 November 2020
Meet the new highest-ranking female CEO in the Fortune 500
Early on the morning of November 6, CVS Health unveiled the change in leadership that most analysts and investors expected. Karen Lynch , w...
Apple, Sony both discussed buying podcast network Wondery
Apple and Sony Music Entertainment have each held talks about potentially acquiring Wondery, the producer of “Dirty John” and “Dr. Death,” ...
Thursday, 5 November 2020
3 key takeaways from Uber’s latest pandemic-impacted quarter
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Wednesday, 4 November 2020
Biden received more total votes than any presidential candidate in U.S. history
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Tuesday, 3 November 2020
China tells Ant it can’t go public until capital shortfall is fixed
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Monday, 2 November 2020
The parallels between 1948’s ‘Dewey defeats Truman’ election and today
The famous “ Dewey defeats Truman ” presidential election was 72 years ago and reminders of what was an epic polling failure echo to this d...
PayPal plans a much wider embrace of cryptocurrency, including Venmo use
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman provided new details about the company’s recent embrace of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on Monday, describing ...
Sunday, 1 November 2020
Biden is more likely to win red Montana than Trump is to win key midwestern swing states
If you ask pollsters, they’ll tell you President Donald Trump’s path to reelection is both narrow and unlikely. As of Sunday, FiveThirtyEigh...
Friday, 30 October 2020
Twitter clears the N.Y. Post to tweet again after policy change
Twitter will no longer restrict the New York Post’s account on its platform after changing its practice of not retroactively overturning p...
Thursday, 29 October 2020
Why now was the right time for Bahrain to normalize relations with Israel
I’ve read a lot of analysis by experts and pundits over the past few weeks about why Bahrain chose to normalize relations with Israel. Much ...
Apple says iPhone 12 sales are strong despite delays
Apple reported weaker iPhone sales than Wall Street expected for its most recent quarter, but CEO Tim Cook said demand was strong in recent ...
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
It may sound far-fetched, but businesses need to be ready for an election-related disaster
How can leaders prepare for the presidential election resulting in a disaster? That possibility may sound unrealistic to many leaders. Yet ...
Spotify draws fire over Alex Jones’s claims in Joe Rogan podcast
Spotify is drawing heat for a podcast from Joe Rogan in which the popular host discusses conspiracy theories with right-wing rabble-rouser A...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Political cynicism has given way to love in Christian America
Cynicism has been trending in America. In 2016 Donald Trump appealed to a jaded electorate by suggesting that his propensity to donate to b...
