Blacks lag far behind whites and other minorities in business ownership, though there are signs the gap has started to narrow since the recession, new government data show. Black-owned firms accounted for just 2.1% of the nation’s companies with at least one employee in 2014, according to the first instalment ... Read More »
UK will continue to attract investment, chancellor says Philip Hammond, the new(ish) chancellor, says Britain will remain an outward-looking country, attractive to foreign companies: In a statement released to coincide with a visit to Jaguar Land Rover (owned by India’s Tata), he said: As an outward-looking country, we will continue ... Read More »
Europe plans to give media companies the power to demand payment from search engines like Google when snippets of their content are republished. The European Commission is is working on a significant overhaul of copyright law that aims to help level the playing field between news outlets and tech giants ... Read More »
When Archana Masih and photographerRajesh Karkera set course from the foothills of the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, they could not think of a better place to begin their journey than the stately campus that has given India some of its greatest military heroes. Read: Day 2 Doon Valley The ... Read More »
Two security guards were injured on Wednesday as protesters attacked the house of ruling Peoples Democratic Party Rajya Sabha member in Chawalgam area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir, police said. A group of several hundred people pelted stones at the house of PDP MP Nazir Ahmad Laway and injured ... Read More »
A Maldivian criminal court has issued an arrest warrant against Mohamed Nasheed, the country’s first democratically elected president who was toppled in 2012, over a probe into the alleged misuse of funds during his regime. Nasheed, 49, was granted political asylum in the UK last May after he was authorised ... Read More »
When his daughter was in third grade, Ryan Bannister started having trouble helping her with homework. “It just didn’t make sense to me,” he explains. Like a lot of parents, Ryan didn’t understand the new methods being taught under Common Core, adopted by Pennsylvania in 2013. He began researching and ... Read More »
At least, that was the plan before the controversies and confusion of last week’s“immigration week” stuck around to steal education’s spotlight. But there is some indication that Trump’s going to emphasize education more in the future. He’s chosen a policy adviser on education. “Education, education, education!” he declaimed at a ... Read More »
Sales of Tata’s Nano small car have been falling for years. India’s Tata Motors is overhauling its domestic supply chain, product portfolio and organizational structure as part of a three-year turnaround strategy, the company’s chief executive said on Tuesday. The aim is to put Tata Motors TTM 0.08% among the ... Read More »
Penny Kim, a marketing professional with a short one-month career at a Silicon Valley startup, shared a detailed account of one of the ugliest startup stories we’ve ever heard. Her tale started with a job offer in July of $135,000 a year plus equity, a $10,000 signing bonus for relocation ... Read More »
Alphabet is breaking up Nest, its standalone smart-home gadgets company, and moving Nest’s software group back into Google. Nest Labs will continue to exist as a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, but it will be limited to selling Nest-branded hardware, like its internet-connected thermostat. Nest’s programmers, meanwhile, will go ... Read More »
Alphabet Inc’s Google is close to winning PayPal Holdings Inc as a client for its cloud business, potentially beating out Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp, CNBC reported on Tuesday. While Google is the front-runner, the online payments processor is evaluating the other providers and hasn’t made any decision yet, CNBC ... Read More »
