The pandemic was a boon for billionaires. It grew their collective wealth and helped more people join their ranks. For the first time, the world has more than 3,000 billionaires, according to a new report from research firm Wealth-X making the pandemic a 'windfall to billionaire wealth'.
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There are benefits to becoming a fully-remote organization. A top example is that the talent pool now goes national, or even international. Organizations are no longer limited to recruiting employees from a given radius to their offices. Asynchronous work helps to open the door for employees to work across time zones to get projects and deliverables completed in time.
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Singapore-based farmer Chua Kai-Ning spends a lot of her day making sure that her animals are well fed and growing fast.
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An entire whisky distillery is being shipped out from Scotland to China on Friday.
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That’s what parents are calling on Amazon to do after a teenage girl named Alexa legally changed her name after being bullied for having the same name as Amazon’s smart speaker assistant.
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Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they'll run out of people to employ, according to a new report
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Shares of Lyft, Uber and DoorDash dropped sharply Thursday after Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh told Reuters in an interview that gig workers should be classified as company employees.
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Cryptocurrency backers have spent years insisting that bitcoin, ethereum and other digital coins could revolutionize the world of finance. Finally, they're getting their moment.
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Kim Kardashian West is joining the ranks of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other moguls: She is officially a billionaire, according to Forbes.
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Many college students have had their post-graduation plans completely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. For one entrepreneurial pair, however, the uncertainty created an opportunity to start their own internship matchmaking business.
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Budweiser will not be running a commercial during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.Instead, the Anheuser-Busch InBev beer will use the marketing dollars to support Covid-19 vaccine awareness and access.
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Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma made his first public appearance since October on Wednesday when he spoke to a group of teachers by video, easing concern about his unusual absence from the limelight and sending shares in the e-commerce giant surging.
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For more than 200 years, Savile Row in London’s elegant Mayfair district has been the place to go for discerning men in search of the perfect, tailor-made suit.
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In 2019, The Walt Disney Company closed the mega-acquisition of 21st Century Fox and bestrode the box office like the Hulk.
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Google will reimburse employees up to $1,000 to pay for equipment to help them work from home, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote to employees on Tuesday.
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'Everybody will love it': A four-day work week could help rebuild Canada's economy post-COVID-19, experts say.Could long weekends actually boost productivity, make people happier and help the post-corona recovery? Now's the time to consider options
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A California state panel on Friday rejected a request from Elon Musk’s SpaceX for $655,500 in state job and training funds, citing the chief executive’s recent threats to move Tesla, the electric carmaker that he also runs, out of the state.
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The factory in Fremont, California, has been offline since March, and Musk is willing to be arrested as the company defies local orders.
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Disney to stop paying 100,000 workers but is still on track to give shareholders $1.5 billion.Move will save company up to $500 million a month. Theme parks and hotels have already been closed for almost five weeks.
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