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...Adeline Ooi remains director of Asia and takes on a more strategic role within the continent, where Art Basel already supports events such as the recent Art Week Tokyo....
...Yet in Donald Trump’s America, with culture wars raging, companies that had adopted broad and sometimes vague notions of purpose found themselves the target of campaigns with a sharper edge....
...Those changes signal a shifting view in the delivery sector, including among grocery apps such as Instacart and Gopuff, that selling the “shop window” space within their crowded apps could prove a more lucrative...
...A California ballot initiative, Proposition 22, this week overturned a state assembly law seeking to give the likes of Uber drivers the legal status of employees rather than independent contractors....
...During the 1920s, small-town protests over issues such as grocery monopolies and Wall Street control of family farms brought the attention of Franklin Roosevelt to antitrust issues....
...“The food supply chain is breaking,” the 66-year-old billionaire wrote in full-page adverts published in Sunday’s New York Times, Washington Post and Democrat-Gazette in his home state of Arkansas....
...In the US, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pledged to donate $100m to Feeding America, a Chicago-based nonprofit that has 200 food banks across the United States, and which launched the Covid-19 Response Fund, a national...
...Their products are now available in fast-food chains such as Burger King and in the meat aisles of grocery stores....
...Dr Leana Wen, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said her group would challenge the bill in court if it was signed. “We have no choice....
...list of essential medicines — can end up costing so much in America?...
...With the new threat to sue from a coalition of US states, it’s going to be a tough call to make for the US regulator. DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...North-west Iowa is “the number one pork-producing district in all the United States of America,” Steve King, its US congressman, boasted to constituents last week....
...Does the future of grocery shopping depend on driverless cars, meal kits or automated warehouses? Kroger, one of America’s largest grocers, is betting on all of the above....
...Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer for the drivers in O’Connor v Uber Technologies, the main case before the court, said she was considering appealing to the full Ninth Circuit, and urged drivers to take their...
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...These days, retailers deliver everything from clothes and groceries to flat screen televisions to consumers who order them online, in a shift that is battering traditional companies used to selling their...
...Patagonia v Donald Trump Late last year visitors to Patagonia’s website were greeted by a black page which stated “The President Stole Your Land.”...
...In the rest of the company, Amazon’s North America segment — which includes online retail, subscriptions such as Prime, and sales of Amazon products such as smart speakers — generated a 3.7 per cent margin...
...The Theta V has 19GB of internal memory, which is quickly gobbled up by about 40 minutes of 4K video....
...On the heels of e-commerce giant Amazon’s purchase of upscale grocer Whole Foods, US grocery retailer Albertsons is adding meal-kit company Plated to its menu....
...Ocado has been increasing the grocery picking capacity at its state-of-the-art customer fulfilment centre in Andover, and has increased the number of orders processed there by 50 per cent in 14 weeks....
...America’s tech giants is creating tensions with other big businesses as well as policymakers and consumer groups....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Broader retail — from malls to grocery stores — have all felt the impact of changing consumer trends and growing online sales, with auto parts retailers failing to escape the fears of decline for bricks...
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