Epic Games Store has generated $680 million in revenue so far, largely from exclusives. Weekly free games will continue through 2020 ~games Article 1004 words 12 votes
Enron: The biggest fraud in all of history ~finance business Video 19:05, published Aug 30 2019 4 votes
GM will resurrect the Hummer name on an all-electric pickup truck to be sold under the GMC brand ~transport Article 80 words 4 votes
Billionaire’s company in talks to buy electric grid on Lanai ~finance business Article 297 words 7 votes
Fantasy Flight Games appears to have laid off at least ten staff, and is shutting down Fantasy Flight Interactive ~games.tabletop Article 560 words 6 votes
New electric car sales in Norway rose by a third last year amid soaring demand for Tesla's vehicles – but the company will face a more competitive market in 2020 ~transport Article 618 words, published Jan 3 2020 9 votes
Two of the top US dairy producers have filed for bankruptcy in two months ~finance business Link 10 votes
Release of over 100,000 leaked documents from Cambridge Analytica has started, showing the company's work in sixty-eight countries ~tech privacy facebook social media Article 751 words 14 votes
New York dangled extra incentives in initial bid to lure Amazon HQ2 ~finance business Article 92 words 6 votes
The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world – Mette Lykke, co-founder of fitness tracker Endomondo, and CEO of food waste app, Too Good To Go ~finance business Article 1171 words 4 votes
Norway's Equinor plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its domestic operations by 40% this decade and to near zero by 2050 ~enviro climate change Article 330 words 6 votes
California's new employment law is starting to crush freelancers ~finance business Article 1592 words, published Dec 11 2019 5 votes
8tracks, a site for sharing music playlists, is shutting down on Dec. 31 - The story of their 11-year journey from launch to shutdown ~tech Article 3239 words 12 votes
Sixteen significant gaming industry figures talk about some of the major trends and changes in gaming over the last decade ~games Article 5415 words, published Dec 19 2019 10 votes
Boeing’s push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared ~transport Article 6 votes
Lego accused of muscling in on fans after BrickLink takeover – sale has alarmed secondhand brick collectors but Danish toymaker claims it is about reconnecting with customers ~hobbies Article 914 words 4 votes
China has called off two business delegation visits to Sweden after Stockholm presented a rights prize to dissident Gui Minhai ~finance business Article 350 words 6 votes
Running the numbers to figure out Amazon's market share: it has about 35% of US ecommerce, but closer to 6% of addressable retail overall ~finance business Article 944 words, published Nov 22 2019 5 votes
Amid accusations of harassment and bad business practices, Ben Judd has resigned or been removed from his positions as CEO of Dangen, VP of DDM Japan, and more ~games Article 3165 words 4 votes
LogMeIn (owner of LastPass, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, OpenVoice and join.me) is being acquired by private equity firms for $4.3 billion ~tech Article 269 words 23 votes
Examination of US Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including ninety-one that paid no federal taxes at all ~finance business Article 14 244 words 9 votes
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths ~finance business Article 854 words 7 votes
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building? ~tech Article 3342 words 13 votes
Bloomberg just bought CityLab—and will put half its staff out of a job ~finance business Article 1203 words 13 votes
Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway ~tech Article 78 words 4 votes
Amazon has been given free access to healthcare information collected by the NHS as part of a contract with the government. ~health healthcare Article 481 words 11 votes
2019 in Review: Gaming industry figures and companies faced a year of PR disasters and missteps with few lasting consequences, but some progress was made ~games Article 1824 words, published Dec 9 2019 7 votes
SoftBank is selling its stake in dog-walking startup Wag back to the company, as Wag cuts 80% of staff ~finance business Article 9 votes
Coolest Cooler, which raised $13M on Kickstarter in 2014, announces they are shutting down with about 20,000 (1/3) of their backers not having their $200 pledge fulfilled ~tech Article 611 words 17 votes
How big and diversified is the Samsung group of companies? ~tech Video 11:23, published Apr 25 2015 5 votes
PlayStation: The first twenty-five years - An oral history of Sony’s big gaming play, and how it changed the world ~games Article 11 615 words 6 votes
Sweden's telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced ~finance business Article 317 words 4 votes
Finland braced for strikes seen shaving $220 million off economy ~finance economics business Article 4 votes
The Swedish dairy lobby is fighting alternative milks, like Oatly, as if they're an existential threat ~food drinks Article 1550 words 13 votes
Rune II developer Human Head Studios is being sued by publisher Ragnarok after it abandoned the game one day after its release in order to join Bethesda ~games Article 637 words 7 votes
Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping down at Alphabet. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will become CEO of Alphabet ~tech google Link 18 votes
Riot Games will pay at least $10 million to settle gender discrimination suit, split between all female employees who worked there in the last five years ~games Article 728 words 17 votes
Codemasters has acquired Project CARS developer Slightly Mad Studios for $30 million ~games Article 452 words 6 votes
The Lego Group has acquired BrickLink, the world’s largest online LEGO fan community and marketplace ~hobbies Article 399 words 15 votes
IKEA's profits have fallen nearly 10% as the world's largest furniture retailer stepped up its spending on renewable energy and its growing online operation ~finance business Article 491 words 14 votes