Bobby Kotick actually wrote Fran Townsend's deranged, company-wide email ~games Article 890 words 17 votes
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick knew for years about sexual-misconduct allegations at videogame giant ~games Article 67 words 10 votes
Streaming company Storytel has signed a deal to acquire Audiobooks.com from owner KKR for $135m, extending its reach into the English language audio market ~finance business Article 442 words 9 votes
Megan Thee Stallion and fast food’s ongoing pursuit of Black buy-in ~finance business Article 1458 words 6 votes
Peter Jackson sells visual effects firm for $1.6bn to Unity ~finance business Article 36 words 4 votes
Portugal makes it illegal for your boss to text you after work in 'game changer' remote work law ~life work.remote Link 16 votes
Pop star Zara Larsson says she's made a seven-figure sum by selling merchandise on the video game platform Roblox ~games Article 912 words 9 votes
IKEA furniture and homeware prices are to rise as a result of lasting disruption to its supply chain – increased cost of raw materials knocked its full-year profits ~finance business Article 476 words 5 votes
Facebook changes name to Meta: Mark Zuckerberg announces company rebrand as it moves to the metaverse ~tech facebook social media Article 406 words 30 votes
Trader Joe wrote a memoir - The book is a sort of “Kitchen Confidential” for the grocery business, but without the drugs or rage ~books Article 1335 words, published Oct 20 2021 4 votes
Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show ~tech amazon.basics Article 4368 words 20 votes
Leeks, tropicalizers, and cutting the soap: A guide to global startup slang ~finance business Article 290 words 1 vote
Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab (owner of Whisper, Kik, WorldStarHipHop, Amino, Genius, etc.) ~tech social media Image 26 votes
Activision Blizzard settles with federal employment agency for $18 Million ~games Article 562 words 14 votes
Lego profits more than doubled in first six months of the year – Danish toymaker was one of the winners from Covid restrictions ~finance business Article 517 words 7 votes
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 985 words 11 votes
Norway agrees to increase natural gas exports to the rest of Europe as prices soar – increase corresponds to nearly 2% of Norway's annual pipeline gas exports ~finance business Article 454 words 8 votes
Fossil fuel firms sue governments across the world for £13bn/$18bn as climate policies threaten profits ~enviro climate change Article 957 words 10 votes
President Biden's COVID-19 plan - Includes a requirement for all employers with 100+ employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly ~health Article 2084 words 31 votes
El Salvador’s new bitcoin wallets could cost Western Union $400 million a year ~finance cryptocurrency business Article 1439 words 15 votes
The nation’s first regenerative dairy works with nature to heal the soil—at scale ~enviro Article 1633 words 7 votes
What’s going on with the ‘Great Resignation’? You’d better work on hanging on to your workers, or you may end up shutting your business doors. ~finance business Article 867 words 17 votes
Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language ~life Article 358 words 13 votes
Paradox Interactive CEO steps down over 'differing views on the company's strategy' ~games Article 8 votes
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 ~society 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
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