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Stablecoin donation company Coala Pay closes $3.5 million funding round
Coala Pay connects donors with local aid organizations using smart contracts and stablecoins. Read More
Personalized vaccine offers hope for patients with late-stage kidney cancer, clinical trial shows
Researchers, in a sense, manipulated each patient’s cancer in an attempt to prevent it from coming back. Read More
Renault reactivates talks with Foxconn over sale of Nissan stake
French group launches search for new investors, with approaches made to several tech companies including Apple
EU to offer lower tariffs on US cars
Bloc hopes olive branch will help to shield Europe’s ailing car industry from Donald Trump’s trade measures
Kash Patel owns up to $5 million in stock of Shein’s parent company—and won’t divest from it because he says there’s only a ‘remote’ chance his new job leading the FBI would interfere
As Patel awaits Senate confirmation to become the next FBI director, his private-sector work is drawing renewed scrutiny. Read More
Apple hit by UK ‘Snoopers’ Charter’ order on encrypted cloud data
British government orders US tech group to grant secret access to its customers’ accounts
NYC just shut down all its live bird markets for a week after it discovered seven cases of avian flu
Bird flu was found in poultry during routine inspections in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Read More
7 micro habits one woman in early menopause used to lose 50 pounds
After noticing she was gaining weight in early menopause, Michelle Kloese took her health into her own hands to keep ...
H-1B visa debates roil U.S.-India relations ahead of Trump-Modi meeting. Here’s what needs to change—on both sides
Can “Made in the USA” and “Make in India” coexist? Protectionist policies from each side are hindering progress. Read More
A small Alaska plane carrying 10 people has gone missing. It’s the third major U.S. aviation incident in the last 8 days
Nome, a Gold Rush town, is known as the ending point of the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read ...
Anheuser-Busch’s CEO asks for beer brands to be labelled ‘American’ not ‘domestic’
Brendan Whitworth, U.S. CEO of Anheuser-Busch, wants to make the marketing change in order to reflect the pride of the ...
She helped get Black-owned brands on store shelves. Even as the tide turns against DEI, she’s determined to keep them there
Target’s DEI pivot was received the worst by consumers of any company’s. Read More
Gilt rally offers partial reprieve for Reeves
UK’s growth problems pose long-term challenges for chancellor
Trump looks to end a controversial tax loophole that has enriched Wall Street’s wealthiest for years
Success in closing the carried interest loophole is anything but guaranteed. Read More
Coldplay’s latest music video—a ‘love letter to Singapore’—is a winning ‘investment’ in the fight for global tourists, say experts
“It’ll be interesting to know how much the Singapore Tourism Board paid for this endeavor,” says Jose Raymond, managing director ...
Get ready for a legal battle as federal worker unions fight it out with Trump in court
What a week. Read More
US economy created 143,000 jobs in January
Decline in unemployment rate bolsters Fed case for slow pace of interest rate cuts
Greylock’s Asheem Chandna on spotting game-changing founders, and never losing a dime
Greylock’s Asheem Chandna has spent 22 years in VC, and he’s never lost money. Read More
Volkswagen-backed EV maker Scout Motors wants to sell directly to buyers online but can’t do it in its home state
In a world where almost everything can be bought online, automobiles remain an exception. Read More
NFL’s CFO landed her dream job. Here’s 3 ways playing sports prepared her for leadership
Christine Dorfler has been preparing for Super Bowl LIX. Read More
25-year-old employed by Elon Musk’s DOGE who posted he was ‘racist before it was cool’ resigns after being linked to deleted social-media account
Marco Elez was part of a team of young, tech-savvy DOGE workers that have been tearing through government agencies. Read ...
Trump administration sues Chicago over its ‘sanctuary’ city status, saying it ‘thwarts’ federal immigration crackdown
The lawsuit, which also names the state of Illinois, is the latest effort to crack down on places that limit cooperation between ...
How to dismantle the UK’s regulatory Tower of Babel
Labour’s erratic, piecemeal approach will not deliver lasting change
Warren Buffett is snapping up shares in the media company which recently signed Alex Cooper’s Unwell network
SiriusXM may be posting billion-dollar losses but Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is liking what it sees. Read More
Billionaire L’Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers retires and passes on board role to her son
Bettencourt Meyers is a third-generation L’Oreal heir and has spent 28 years on its board. Her two sons are also ...
Hong Kong will file WTO complaint against new 10% U.S. tariffs
The U.S. imposed an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods and ended a customs exception that allowed small-value parcels to enter the U.S. without ...
DOGE was given the job of stopping Treasury payments to USAID, sources say
DOGE’s efforts to stop USAID payments undermine assurances that it only had “read-only access” to the system as part of ...
Accenture ditches diversity and inclusion goals
Chief executive Julie Sweet tells 799,000 staff decision was taken following ‘evaluation’ of US landscape
China slams U.S. over ‘coercion’ after Panama declines to renew Belt and Road infrastructure agreement
The Belt and Road Initiative is President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign police drive to bind China closer to countries in ...
News outlet Politico got dragged into the USAID chaos. Turns out, government workers have a $16 million habit of reading premium political news
Right-winged socials were wrong after they speculated Politico funding came from USAID. The government just spends millions on the platform’s ...
