Lowe’s becomes latest company to end DEI policies
Home improvement giant Lowe’s has eliminated some of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, becoming the latest U.S. company to change such policies aimed at improving racial and ethnic representation. Lowe’s will no longer participate in an investigation by transgender rights group Human Rights Campaign and will consolidate its various business resource groups representing a […]
Starbucks gives new CEO Brian Niccol company jet to fly from California home to Seattle HQ
Starbucks has reportedly provided its new CEO, Brian Niccol, with a corporate jet for the lightning-quick commute from his Southern California mansion to the Seattle headquarters. Coffee chain reveals Nichols deals Offer Letter This allows the new president to have a “small remote office” in his home in Newport Beach, eliminating the need to permanently […]
Prediction: Wall Street's Next Stock Split Announcement Will Come From a Company That's Gained 150,000% Since Its IPO – Yahoo Finance
Despite historically hot trends Artificial Intelligence (AI) The stock split mania that has dominated Wall Street headlines has played an equally impressive role in driving the overall market higher in 2024. Simply put, a stock split is a tool that publicly traded companies can resort to to adjust their share price and the number of […]
X investors who helped Elon Musk buy company include VC firms, Saudi prince
Investors who helped Elon Musk acquire X for $44 billion two years ago included some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists, members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family and a fund with ties to disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, according to court documents. A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday ordered Co. X to […]
7-Eleven parent company facing possible acquisition
See what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com Alimentation Couche-Tard is considering buying another major convenience store company, Seven & I, which owns the popular 7-Eleven convenience store chain. The Canadian company, whose brands include Couche-Tard, Circle K and Ingo, “recently sent a” friendly but non-binding proposal” to Japan-based Seven & i, Couche-Tard said in a press release […]
Company will freeze your dead body until can be ‘reanimated’ years later — for a hefty price
calm down! A tech start-up is giving people the option to cryogenically freeze their bodies in the hope that they might be able to be resurrected one day in the distant future. Berlin-based Tomorrow Biocharges an exorbitant fee of $222,603 plus a $55 monthly membership fee to freeze bodies or body parts. Six people and […]
Chinese Company Caught Stealing Dead Bodies to Make Dental Implants
Chinese social media users have discovered they are now banned from discussing the shocking news that medical supplies company Shanxi Arwei Biomaterials has been found to be selling human corpses and body parts. The Chinese Communist Party’s army of social media censors launched a heavy crackdown three days after the news broke. Delete The series […]
Casey tied to Chinese firm he claimed McCormick-led company invested in to ‘profit’ off Fentanyl crisis
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, through several mutual funds, invests in the same companies that recently ran ads attacking a Chinese fentanyl manufacturer that is also an investment holding of Republican candidate Dave McCormick. In an ad released earlier this month, the Pennsylvania senator’s campaign argued that McCormick was “profiting off people’s pain” and slammed his […]
Paxton announces investigation of CenterPoint, company behind Houston blackouts
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, on Monday announced an investigation into CenterPoint Energy, a national utility company that covers the House of Representatives, where nearly 3 million homes lost power after Hurricane Beryl. CenterPoint is a national utility whose jurisdiction includes much of Houston, where at least 12 people died of heatstroke during […]
Ghost kitchen company once valued at $1B pivots to grocery delivery as food-prep business withers
The unicorn, which has opened hundreds of pandemic-era “ghost kitchens” across the country, plans to lay off more than 50 employees in the New York City area and shift to grocery delivery as the meal-prepared model sees a steep decline. Leaf Technology, a SoftBank-backed company that was once valued at $1 billion, filed a WARN […]