Business Insights

Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott is giving away $250 million in an open call to community focused non profit organisations. According to Fortune magazine, Scott will make the $1 million donations to 250 selected NGO’s through her organization Yield Giving. She said it will be a “new pathway to support for organizations making positive change […]

Jose Negron of Waterbury, Conn. wanted a unique marriage proposal that his girlfriend will never forget. He rented a space on a billboard in the advertisement capital of America. As the couple walked through the busy street, a photo of Cartigila, Negron, and their son appeared on a 55-foot-wide, 31-foot-tall billboard with the caption “Will You Marry […]

Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy announced on March 20 that the company would likely retrench another 9,000 employees. This is in addition to the 18,000 people that the e-commerce giant announced it would lay off in January. The cuts will likely be in the advertising department, video streaming service, Twitch, Amazon Web Services and in the […]

The BBC is in the midst of deciding whether or not to ban Chinese social media app TikTok. It has told its staff to delete the app from their work phones unless they are using it for editorial or marketing according to a Deadline report. This decision was in the wake of the UK government […]

Ex president Donald Trump said he expects to be arrested in the coming week in relation to the Stormy Daniels case. He is alleged to have given hush money to the adult film actress. Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social on March 18 that he anticipates being arrested on Tuesday in the case related […]

Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Kentucky, is reiterating his support for a 1,400-bed federal prison project with a $500 million price tag that would be built on a former coal mine site in Letcher County. Rogers added language to the most recent House spending measure to expedite the building of this federal prison. Federal prison opposition The […]

When we are not employed, we have so much free time on our hands. Because there is so much free time, we squander our time by sitting around doing nothing or using too much time thinking of the sad plight we are in. But how we spend this free time can have a huge impact […]

Artificial sweetener aspartame is a widely used artificial sweetener and the World Health Organisation says it’s possibly “carcinogenic to humans” but people shouldn’t worry that drinking carbonated drinks with aspartame is going to give them cancer. The International Research Agency on Cancer has announced the change in the classification on July 13. It has been […]

Suspicious activity reports sent by banks are being thoroughly reviewed by the House Oversight Committee and may indicate the involvement of the family of President Biden in dubious activities. Such review is predicted to fast-track the inquiry into Joe Biden’s links to undertakings in China, Russia, and Ukraine. To recall, it was reported by CBS […]

Reach, a publisher which owns regionals newspapers as well as the Mirror and Express newspapers has said that it may have to retrench up to 420 employees as part of a cost-cutting exercise. The company also owns smaller outfits such as the Birmingham Mail, Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News. In January the publisher had […]

Meta or better known as Facebook will be laying off 10,000 workers in the next four months. It’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the cuts were necessary to improve the company’s “financial performance in a difficult environment.” According to an Insider report, the leaner structure will now have 65,000 employees instead of 86,000. In November […]

Jay Leno and Oprah Winfrey are not pleased at all with Donald Trump’s use of their personal letters written to him years ago in his new book. The book titled Letters to Trump will be released on April 25 and contains 150 letters from celebrities and politicians and includes photographs. Many feel that it is […]

Japanese billionaire, Masatoshi Ito who was responsible for the rise of 7-Eleven convenience stores all over the world died at 98. His death on March 10 was confirmed by Seven & I Holdings (SVNDF) which is the operator of 7-Eleven. The company issued a statement saying, “We would like to express our deepest gratitude for […]

Spyridon Voulgarakis from Florida was arrested for apparently setting up a camera in the men’s lavatory of a coffee shop named, “We Spy Coffee & More,” and spying on whoever enters the restroom at the café. Voulgarakis was arrested by the Tarpon Springs Police Department on March 11 and charged with battery and video voyeurism. […]

Of late Microsoft’s Bill Gates and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took to answering question generated by an AI chat bot. In a video posted by Sunak’s office last month, the British PM read out some AI generated question to Gates, one of them being what he would tell his younger self if he could […]