More than a year after Amazon announced that it would be lead a $575 million investment into UK food delivery startup Deliveroo, the country’s competition regulator, the CMA, has finally announc
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday it now expects global gross domestic product to shrink 4.9 percent this year, significantly more than the three percent drop predicted in April
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday revised down its forecast for the global economy amid the mounting COVID-19 fallout, projecting a 4.9-percent contraction in 2020. The latest projec
The United States has "overstepped" the China-U.S. phase-one economic and trade agreement by imposing export controls on Huawei, said a renowned U.S. economist Tuesday
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A Huawei store in Shanghai, China, June 23, 2020. /VCG The United States has "overstepped" the China-U.S. phase-one economic and trade agreement by imposing export controls on Huawei, said a r
TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot announced today that she is stepping down from her role at the freelance labor marketplace.Brown-Philpot joined TaskRabbit seven years ago as the company’s chi
The volume of global merchandise trade would shrink by around 18.5 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of this year, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Tue
About 17 percent of children globally are not in school, whether because of poverty, gender, race, disability or a myriad other factors and despite international pledges to tackle such inequalitie
Global trade is expected to drop around 18.5 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2020 in a coronavirus driven plunge which could have been much worse, the World Trade Organization said o
Today’s WWDC keynote has been much more Memoji-centric than usual. The invite art featured them and they were all over the intro. They also got a significant amount of face time during today’s iOS 14
One of the most distressing aspects of the ongoing pandemic is that COVID-19 is having a disproportionate impact on communities of color and lower-income Americans due to structural factors rooted in
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President Donald Trump’s return to the campaign trail was designed to show strength and enthusiasm heading into the critical final months before an election that will d
Semi-trailers sit parked at a Kroger Co. grocery distribution center in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., March 20, 2020. /VCG Photo The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
Photo taken on March 16, 2020 shows the White House Visitor Center in Washington D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie) In the eyes of some U.S. politicians, the Dow Jones is far more important t
There was a time when American politicians of both parties could still reach across partisan lines and join hands to make a difference for the best interests of the Am