Regulators and reality: The FTC's case against Facebook ~tech social media facebook Article 3025 words 5 votes
'Democracy for sale': Analysis ties corporate consolidation to increased lobbying ~misc politics Link 9 votes
Alphabet’s drone delivery service Wing hits 100,000 deliveries milestone ~tech Article 596 words 15 votes
Thirty-three non-existent businesses tied to one Denver office got millions in COVID-19 relief money ~finance business Article 1134 words 16 votes
Maersk is investing £1bn to speed up its switch to carbon neutral operations – eight methanol fuelled vessels could help save more than 1m tonnes of carbon emissions a year ~transport Article 555 words 16 votes
McDonald’s runs out of milkshakes amid ‘supply chain issues’ in UK ~finance business Article 378 words 11 votes
US FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition ~tech facebook Article 518 words 14 votes
Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT has made the world's first customer delivery of steel, produced without using coal, to Volvo ~finance business Article 299 words 15 votes
Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding, at a valuation of over $10 billion ~tech social media Article 279 words 23 votes
The end of ownership: How big companies are trying to turn everyone into renters ~finance business Article 956 words 29 votes
Sex-toy makers Lovehoney and WOW Tech merge in $1.2 billion deal as lockdowns spur demand ~finance business Article 235 words 11 votes
Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money ~finance business Article 604 words 16 votes
Transatlantic conquest the aim for new budget airline Norse – insists that demand for travel is bouncing back as coronavirus restrictions eased ~transport Article 733 words 6 votes
Sony’s deal for anime platform Crunchyroll faces uncertainty from US DOJ ~anime Article 528 words 8 votes
Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity - and labor lawyers say it's illegal ~tech apple Article 1033 words 24 votes
Substack just made a major new hire as it goes after comic-book writers and expands its fiction efforts ~comics Article 1184 words 4 votes
Xsolla fires 150 employees based on big data analysis of their activity ~finance business Article 492 words, published Aug 4 2021 14 votes
Printer jam: Serious supply issues disrupt the book industry’s 2020 fall season ~books Article 1325 words, published Aug 27 2020 4 votes
Alt-milk maker Oatly loses trademark case against family-run UK firm – Swedish company took legal action against Cambridgeshire-based Glebe Farm Foods over oat drink ~finance business Article 705 words 7 votes
How the founder’s toxic culture tore apart Fullbright, the studio behind Gone Home ~games Article 2036 words 11 votes
What's the point of a company? Philip Morris is attempting to purchase a respiratory illness treatment company, let's talk about it. ~finance business economics Article 708 words 10 votes
Activision Blizzard hires union-busting firm as workers start to come together ~games Article 806 words 25 votes
Nikola founder Trevor Milton charged with securities fraud and wire fraud for making false and misleading claims about the status of the US company's electric trucks and technology ~transport Article 2402 words 12 votes
Tobacco firm Philip Morris calls for ban on cigarettes within decade ~health Article 286 words 19 votes
Former eBay security manager sentenced to eighteen months in prison for his role in cyber-stalking campaign against eBay critics ~tech Article 504 words 13 votes
Walmart to pay 100% of college tuition and books for associates ~finance business Article 791 words 11 votes
Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles ~transport Article 747 words 14 votes
Janne Poranen: ‘If you have an invention, don't sell your technology too early to anyone’ ~finance business Article 595 words 4 votes
The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley" ~enviro pollution Article 1269 words 8 votes
Google's 'hypocritical' remote work policies anger employees, after a senior executive announced he's moving to New Zealand in what some workers consider special treatment ~life work.remote Article 1883 words 13 votes
Cape Cod businesses struggle to find T-shirts, hats amid shortage ~finance business Article 859 words 3 votes
Less than a week after US IPO, Didi Chuxing shares plunge in response to the Chinese government removing the ride-hailing app from stores to perform a security review ~transport Article 419 words 4 votes
Trump Organization charged in fifteen-year tax scheme. Longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg was also charged with evading taxes on $1.7 million of income. ~finance business Article 1520 words 12 votes