Business Insights

Popular fast food outlet, McDonald’s is planning to open 1,900 outlets in 2023, of these, more than 400 of the new Golden Arches will be in the United States or in international markets such as Germany, Canada, France, Australia and the United Kingdom. Of the 1,900 new outlets, 900 of them will be in China […]

Amid attacks and criticisms, Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk is moving forward with his plans in introducing a payments feature in the app which gives it a new revenue stream thus making it an “everything app” or rather a super app to its 126 million users. The company has applied for regulatory licenses across the US […]

Famous Twitter honcho Elon Musk expressed regret for spreading an unsubstantiated theory about the brutal assault on Paul Pelosi, husband of former speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi inside his home last October. The “theory” was disseminated to his 126 million social media followers but also read by non-followers. Sorry Pelosi? “I apologize,” Musk said. However, Musk […]

Phony credentials are on the rise and have become a global predicament. It has become a billion-dollar industry consisting of almost 4,000 diploma mills. These are bogus academic institutions that peddle certificates for all levels of degrees all over the world. Recently, thousands of practicing nurses in the U.S. may be working with counterfeit academic […]

Colombian drug lord – Dairo Antonio Usuga David – pleaded guilty Wednesday before a Brooklyn courtroom for running a criminal syndicate in what is seen as victorious justice against a warlord. He is facing a 20-year prison sentence. David’s case is proof that while justice wheels turn slowly, it prevails in the end. Usuga led […]

Ordinarily Extraordinary Bezos, that is what Jeff’s girlfriend Lauren Sanche said about him. In his book entitled Jeff Bezos: The World-Changing Entrepreneur, Chris McNab said that Bezos’s wealth is a “poor metric by which to measure his success.” While Jeff was 2020’s richest man in modern world history, with a net worth of $200 billion, […]

First it was Twitter, and now its Facebook and Instagram welcoming Donald Trump back into their fold but the question will he or will not triumphantly post? So, why are these social media platforms reintroducing the former US President? Is it because he’s returned to the political spotlight? Was there any pressure from Trump’s group? […]

A disused plane is now a luxury villa? Big stretch but true enough thanks to the efforts of Russian entrepreneur Felix Demin who bought the plane in 2021 and placed it at the top of a cliff. The Boeing 737 has now been converted into a two-bedroom villa with a pool and wing-top terrace. It’s […]

Leading companies, including Disney and Starbucks, say enough is enough and urged their workforce to come back to the office, in a call to get rid of remote work. On January 18, Starbucks announced that employees who live within commuting distance of its offices must work from the office for at least three days a […]

It appears fine dining is going out of fashion and is unlikely that this business model is going to succeed again in the near future. During the pandemic restaurants had to re-look their business model and focus more on take out menus and it appears that the hey-day of fine dining is unlikely to return […]

Ivana Trump died in July 2022 leaving behind $34 million in assets and a large portion of the inheritance goes to the children. How the money is being distributed, based on her will is definitely one way of figuring out who stands where in the the Trump family dynamics. Ivana left behind a Manhattan townhouse, […]

A number of employees at Amazon India broke down and cried after being let go. Amazon laid off almost 1,000 people at its India offices and plans to retrenched 17,000 workers worldwide. Photos of employees crying were posted on Grapevine, a community app for Indian professionals. According to Grapevine 75% of the staff had to […]