Facing economic collapse and severe sanctions, Venezuela’s socialist government proposes to provide a majority stake and control over its oil industry to large international corporations. The privatization of the sector will mark the end of decades of state control.

The government of Pre…

The best way to prepare for this kind of issue is to adopt the drop surfing strategy. It means having multiple suppliers in your contact from different regions. There are numbers of dropshipping suppliers in US that you can contact, which will eventually help you as it would shorten the shipping…

No example proves this more than his stance on political advertising. Per his command, Facebook allows politicians to say anything in ads short of illegalities. They can lie with impunity. It’s a controversial, maybe indefensible stand. Employees have begged him to reconsider. Legislators threat…

A new global ad campaign from Microsoft will aim to sell "The Power of Teams," juxtaposing old-school conference room meetings, complete with packets of printed-out charts and spilled coffee as phones are passed, versus what the company pitches as a new way of working. The company worked with it…

The Intrusion Truth group has already other APT groups operating in other provinces of the country, including APT3 (from the Guangdong province), APT10 (from Tianjin province), and APT17 (Jinan province). The last group tracked by the researcher is now operating out of the Hainan province, an i…

Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s recently fired CEO, will be getting $62 million upon his departure from Boeing, made up of long-term incentives, stock awards, and pension benefits. The company states that this is what he is contractually entitled to, and that he’s not receiving any sort of severance…

BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager with nearly $7 trillion in investments, and this move will fundamentally shift its investing policy — and could reshape how corporate America does business and put pressure on other large money managers to follow suit.

Mr. Fink’s annual lett…

The high rate of cancellations is the latest sign that the crisis surrounding the 737 Max — the airplane involved in two fatal crashes that took the lives of 346 people — is continuing to affect Boeing’s bottom line. Its order book for the troubled jet shrank by 183 planes — though much of that …

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of the underwriters of the IPO, exercised the option to place 450 million additional shares that were initially separated to avoid price swings, according to a statement. The shares at $8.53 were placed with investors during the book-building process, a stabilizatio…

With anticipation building over Starlink's debut, company founder Elon Musk explained how future subscribers will connect to the service using a device called a phased-array antenna, which he said in 2015 should cost around $200 each. (Though some industry analysts say such devices today co…

For most of its 90-odd-year existence, the prestigious management consultancy prided itself on remaining above the fray. McKinsey consultants plied the executive suites of Fortune 500 companies, counseling chief executives with discretion and quietly building a business that, with $10 billion in…

The announcement said that Korey will take on the role of executive chairman and remain on the board of directors with Away co-founder Jen Rubio. Stuart Haselden, who was chief operating officer at Lululemon Athletica, will take over Korey’s position as CEO starting Jan. 13. 

“In just un…

The entertainment giant's success dates back to a series of strategic acquisitions over the past decade that set Disney up to win in movie theaters and beyond. In 2009, the company bought Marvel for $4.3 billion in a bid to widen its entertainment assets with comic book characters such as Iron M…

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Within three years, U.S. manufacturing workers with college degrees will outnumber those without

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       US tech giant Apple has started selling its new Mac Pro via its website.  In case you were thinking of getting one as a Christmas...

Samsung's next-gen 'Galaxy S11' smartphone will reportedly feature Qualcomms latest new 3D Sonic Max fingerprint sensor that can support up to two fingerprint scans at once.

The new sensor's recognition area is 17 times larger, which should result in faster recognition with a single fing…

Apple is reportedly planing to use Qualcomm's ultrasonic fingerprint sensor technology in one iPhone model, set to be released in 2020.

The iPhone maker was partnering with Taiwanese touchscreen maker GIS to develop an iPhone for 2020 or 2021 that could use the under-display tech, MacRum…

In yet another strong public rebuke of Microsoft who has won the prestigious $10 billion Pentagon Cloud project, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy said the US government's decision to award the project to the Satya Nadella-run company was done under significant political interference.

South Korean automotive giant Hyundai Motor Company on Wednesday announced it aims to electrify most of its new models in emerging markets like India by 2035.

Announcing its 'Strategy 2025' global roadmap to morph into a smart mobility solutions provider, Hyundai also said it would inves…

Being a full-time entrepreneur and business owner takes total sacrifice. You’re sacrificing time, money and a social life just to see big things happen for your company. Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that, because building a business or company from the ground up is a time-con…

I caught up with Penny Gralewski, Penny Gralewski, head of Solutions Marketing at Commvault in Denver Colorado, to talk about the Commvault GO 2019 event, the Commvault "Cloud Survey" and in particular the 2019 edition of it, the key highlights and insights they have gleaned from the data and fo…

The co-founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced that they will resign from their respective job titles as CEO and president of Alphabet. The announcement was done in the afternoon. Sunder Pichai who is a part of Google will be the new president of Alphabet as well.

The “Asbestos in Talc Symposium,” sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration, was dominated by industry hands: Most of the 21 non-government participants had done work for talc companies, such as testing and serving as expert witnesses and consultants, symposium documents and other records sh…