At 38 years old, Julien Balkany has made a name for himself on the other side of the Atlantic. He has been managing the natural resources investment fund Nanes Balkany Partners that he co-founded a decade ago, concomitantly he is the chairman of the board of Norwegian oil and gas company Panoro...

While admitting that they had employed much more temporary workers in China than required, tech giant Apple and its major supplier and manufacturer Foxconn refuted allegation by a non-profit monitor of worker rights that the companies had faulty people management strategies or polices in China....

The Chinese market is being eyed by the United States based alternative meat producer Impossible Foods Inc. However its efforts could hit a roadblock because of regulatory hurdles.   According to Impossible Food founder and CEO Patrick Brown, the company is currently in negotiations with a...

A database of Facebook that contained unprotected unique IDs and phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users was found by news outlet TechCrunch and this data was kept in a server that was easily accessible by anyone.   The data base has been taken down and the fault that allowed anyone to...

The United States ride hailing company Uber got a boost from the Brazilian Superior Court ruling in which the court ruled that the drivers who are associated with the company and provide their services are in fact only independent people are not employees of the company. This ruling can help the...

Charges against Google’s YouTube that this video streaming service had illegally not only collected information and data about children but had also shared the same with third parties, without taking permission from the parents, will be settled by the United States based tech giant against a fine...

No leather from Brazil would be bought as long as the fire in the Amazon continues, announced a major US shoemaker.   This is the first major response from the corporate to the huge fires raging in the Amazon forests. According to the announcement by VF Corp, the company will stop all use of...

The trade war between the United States and China is benefiting some other Asian economies which includes Vietnam and the latest sign of this is confirmed by the latest decision of Google to shift the manufacturing unit for its Pixel range of smartphones into this South East Asian country from...

The famed retailer of the United Kingdom, Marks & Spencer could be delisted from the coveted FTSE 100 list within about a week. This fate of the High Street stalwart is because of its the continued and significant drop in its share prices which could throw the company off the top flight of...

United States tech giant Apple Inc. is still heavily dependent on Chinese manufacturing according to a new report even as the company is set to be hit by the new tariffs imposed on China by President Donald Trump which also includes impending tariffs that would impact its iPhones and iPads starting...

According to reports, Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the OxyContin painkiller, and owned by the Sackler family, has made an offer of between $10 billion to $12 billion against settlement of more than 2,000 lawsuits against the company in the opioid scandal in the United States.   The...