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Ty Roush reports via Forbes: Convoy, a Seattle-based digital freight booker with investors that include billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, announced Thursday it would be shutting down, according to Bloomberg, after the company failed to find a buyer amid a “massive freight recession.” Convoy’s founder and chief executive Dan Lewis notified employees in an […]
Heinz wants to mix up your sauces with some nontraditional flavors. In an effort to give consumers more variety, the condiment maker is releasing “Sauce Drops,” six brand new sauce flavors, launching in select restaurants nationwide for a limited time now through the fall, the company shared in a release Tuesday. The new flavors are […]
Peter Thiel (left) and Richard Li. Getty Images/Bloomberg MoneyHero Group, a personal finance comparison company based in the Asian financial hubs of Hong Kong and Singapore, is planning to go public in the U.S. by merging with a blank-check company backed by Hong Kong billionaire . . .
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe will launch a digital currency next month by introducing “tokens” that are backed by gold reserves and can be transferred between people and businesses as a form of payment, the country’s central bank said Friday. The move is aimed at shoring up Zimbabwe’s faltering national currency, the Zimbabwe dollar, which […]
(CNN) A farmers’ protest party in the Netherlands has caused a shock after winning provincial elections this week just four years after their founding. Could their rise have wider implications? The Farmer-Citizen Movement or BoerburgerBeweging (BBB) grew out of mass demonstrations against the Dutch government’s
The head of Russia’s investigative committee has said Moscow charged 92 members of Ukrainian armed forces with crimes against humanity and proposed an international tribunal backed by countries including Bolivia, Iran and Syria. Key points: More than 40 countries agreed earlier this month to coordinate investigations into suspected war crimes in Ukraine There have also […]
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) – Dozens of companies and business organizations sent a letter to U.S. Congress members on Monday, urging them to support a bill that would rein in the biggest tech companies such as Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Alphabet’s
Stephanie Cunningham, Cofounder and Executive Director of Museum Hue. Nzingah Oyo, Photographer After working at several reputable mainstream museums across New York City, which include the Brooklyn Museum, New-York Historical Society, and the National September 11 Museum & Memorial, Stephanie Cunningham began to notice museums and cultural sites within communities of color that were not […]
Leading in the polls, Herschel Walker still faces the run of his life Herschel Walker at a campaign rally in Commerce, Ga., in March. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP) On a Sunday afternoon in late February, I’m waiting for Herschel Walker. Outside the Springs Cinema & Taphouse, where he’s scheduled to take part in the Republican Jewish […]
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