By Reuters This summer, dozens of incoming students at New York’s Columbia Business School had planned to sail around the coast of Croatia for a week to get to know each other. Instead, they are chatting online and playing icebreaker games on Zoom. With the coronavirus still spreading, social gatherings like the sailing trip organized […]
Walt Disney World in Florida on Wednesday announced plans to reopen and MGM Resorts said guests could soon return to Las Vegas casino hotels, as more Americans emerging from the coronavirus lockdown marked a somber milestone of 100,000 dead. The death toll rose from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, even as the daily […]
Lysol is starring with celebrities and rock-bottom prices in the $8 trillion global travel industry‘s pitch to get people back on the road and in the air. What was scrubbed from view now leads marketing campaigns as cleanliness is tops for travelers in the coronavirus era, marketing experts said. As the summer vacation season kicks off, […]
By Reuters TikTok‘s poaching of Disney’s Kevin Mayer to be its CEO was just the most visible part of a broader strategy by its Chinese owner to shift its center of power away from China at a time of rising global tensions, several people familiar with the plans said. The short video app’s parent company […]
By Reuters U.S. energy executives have retained such lavish payouts even as they have struggled for years to deliver shareholder returns – despite massive growth in domestic shale oil production. Now executives’ compensation is being insulated from the pain of the worst energy crisis in four decades, caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Stay-at-home orders to […]
By Madeline Sponsler, FISM News Over the past few months, Twitter made a dramatic shift to their modus operandum by adding warning labels signaling fact checks to tweets flagged for misinformation. Until recently, the tech company has taken more of a hands-off approach, in particular, to world leaders’ and high profile users’ tweeting. In March, […]
By Reuters SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private rocket company, was scheduled to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was due to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center […]
By Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had certified on Wednesday that Hong Kong no longer warrants special treatment under U.S. law as it did when it was under British rule, a potentially big blow to its status as a major financial hub. Pompeo’s certification to the U.S. Congress follows China’s announcement […]
By Reuters European governments are halting the use of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients, and a second global trial of it was suspended. The moves by France, Italy and Belgium followed a World Health Organization decision on Monday to pause a large trial of hydroxychloroquine due to safety concerns. A UK regulator said […]
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday called on authorities to criminally charge a white police officer who knelt on an African-American man’s neck shortly before he died at a hospital. Frey said the Minnesota District Attorney for Hennepin County, where the city is located, should press charges after the officer along with three others were […]
