Nobody in their right mind would tell a young person starting out in their career today “Just get in with a good company, and you’ll be set for the rest of your career.” Things haven’t worked that way for ages. Nowadays you can’t run a career by getting a steady job with a great company […]

White House communications director Hope Hicks has reportedly admitted telling what amounted to white lies for President Donald Trump. But in her testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, she denied lying about anything relevant to the Russia investigation, US media report. Republican and Democratic lawmakers said Ms Hicks deflected some questions in the nine-hour hearing. […]

One is not born, but rather becomes, a traveller. In my case, I became a good traveller by being, for many years, a terrible traveller. Today I specialise in adventure travel writing, cover travel trends in my monthly column for The Telegraph, and boss people around in my weekly travel etiquette slot. But there was […]

SeaWorld Entertainment CEO Joel Manbay is stepping down, CNBC reported Tuesday. Manbay has been at the helm of the company for three years as it navigated falling attendance and revenue to its shareholders. CNBC reports that the company’s quarterly revenue of $265.5 million beat out analyst projections for $260.1 million. However, SeaWorld Entertainment’s annual losses widened to $202.4 million, […]

For years, tech giants and their CEOs could count on glowing praise and friendly media coverage that hyped up just how much their products would change the world. Those changes are now the subject of growing skepticism from politicians, academics and that same media. Election meddling, concerns about privacy and questions about technology’s role in […]

A plan by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to close its overseas offices, first reported on the Science | Business website, is getting mixed reviews in the scientific community. Last week, NSF announced it would shutter its outposts in Beijing, Brussels, and Tokyo by summer; two U.S. staff will return to the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, […]

As the barriers to opening a business fall, competition increases. We see evidence of this trend every day in new articles worrying over everything from the competitive threat posed by Chinese companies, to the need to invest in culture to maintain competitive advantage. Related: 15 Free Online Learning Sites Every Entrepreneur Should Visit We even […]

The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride-hail service and setting up a fleet-management center. Ford is laying the groundwork for its autonomous vehicle business in Miami, Fla. It’s a three-pronged approach that is still in its infancy, but includes a delivery pilot in partnership […]

One of Georgia’s top lawmakers has threatened to “kill any tax legislation that benefits Delta” after the airline joined several other companies in ending a discount program associated with the National Rifle Association following a school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead. Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, president of the state Senate, had […]

Passengers flying onboard China Southern Airlines were in for a frightening start to their trip on Sunday as a phone charger caught fire in a passenger’s luggage stowed away in the overhead compartment. Passengers were in the process of boarding a flight heading from Guangzhou to Shanghai, China, on Sunday when smoke was spotted inside the airplane’s cabin, airline […]