SHANGHAI – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk on Tuesday landed a deal with Chinese authorities to build a new auto plant in Shanghai, its first factory outside the United States, that would double the size of the electric car maker’s global manufacturing. The deal was announced as Tesla raised prices on U.S.-made […]

What Apple, Samsung, and Starbucks learned from Pepsi. The year was 1957, and Pepsi — like many of the youth at that time — was dealing with an identity crisis. Despite efforts from marketers, Pepsi was being outsold by its biggest competitor and perpetual market leader — Coke — by a factor just shy of six to one, even as it was selling at […]

Where have we come from? In the last ten years, since the iPhone was released, the nature of the web has shifted. Once we designed and coded with HTML for large screens, now it’s all about what’s in the palm of your hand. When the iPhone first came out, there was no app store, all we […]

By Laura Desmond Education models built on blockchain technology have the momentous challenge of programming their blockchains for powerful performance and efficient productivity to overcome. Given the blockchain’s inherent scalability problem (which results in agonizingly slow communication), decentralized education models have adopted different types of distributed networks to decongest their platforms. In this way, they […]

Digital media giant YouTube has been named in class action lawsuit tied to the collapse of BitConnect, the cryptocurrency lending platform widely accused of fraud. BitConnect’s shutdown in January – which followed a series of warnings from U.S. investors – triggered a number of investor lawsuits, including one filed in late January in Florida. BitConnect’s platform was […]

Aries March 20 – April 19 Having certain issues dealt with is a relief. So, understandably, you’re now eager to turn your attention to other matters. But with three eclipses, the first on this Friday, shaking things up, even simple plans are unlikely to proceed as you expected. Disruptive as changes are, they’re in your […]

Representatives from 22 state pageants signed a petition calling for the resignations of the new Miss America board Former Miss America winners and state pageant officials are split over the leadership and direction of the organisation, which was rocked by a 2017 email scandal that led to the resignations of its top leaders. Representatives from […]

Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan mixed political savvy with attention to development needs, providing assistance to those less fortunate Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan was an honourable man who earned widespread respect, as he became a great leader, relying on his impeccable faith and legendary intuition. A first assessment of his significant contributions […]

“The zeitgeist is changing,” Sallie Krawcheck wrote last November, “from women working to be successful individually to working to be successful together.” Recent research on the gender leadership gap confirms the benefits of women supporting women. Both male and female survey respondents were more likely to perceive that they had access into informal leadership development opportunities when they saw that their […]

U.S. stocks rose on Monday, with banks and industrial stocks driving a third day of gains on Wall Street as investors looked ahead to a strong quarterly earnings season, setting aside trade concerns. Bank stocks were the biggest gainers, with the S&P banks index rising 2.4 percent, on track for its biggest percentage gain in […]