Category: Business

Few technology executives have endured as much sustained public scrutiny as Mark Zuckerberg. Two decades after founding Facebook in a Harvard dorm room, the Meta chief executive remains one of the most recognisable — and most criticised — figures in global business. Yet as his personal reputation takes fresh knocks, the company he controls continues…

The Seminole Tribe of Florida has filed a lawsuit against DraftKings, accusing the sports betting giant of operating an illegal gambling business, according to a report from CBS News. The legal action marks an escalation in a long-running dispute over who has the right to take sports wagers in Florida, a state where the Seminole…

SpaceX is reportedly seeking to raise roughly $40bn in a financing arranged by private credit giant Apollo, with the proceeds earmarked for a massive purchase of Nvidia artificial intelligence chips, according to a report carried by Yahoo Finance. If completed at that size, the deal would rank among the largest corporate financings ever assembled for…

A New York Times opinion piece published this week makes a claim that will sound familiar to anyone who has tried to build a business on the internet over the past decade: Meta is crushing small online retailers. The argument rests on a simple dependency. For years, Facebook and Instagram offered small merchants something that…

Japan is home to one of the world’s densest concentrations of very old companies — sake brewers, inns, confectioners, textile workshops and family-run shops that have passed through the hands of a dozen generations. Many trace their founding back centuries. They endured earthquakes, the firebombing and devastation of World War II, the bursting of the…

Galveston’s Small Businesses Push for Help as Tough Times Linger Along the Strand, up and down Seawall Boulevard and in the neighborhood storefronts that give Galveston its character, small business owners say the island’s economy is testing their resilience. Shopkeepers, restaurateurs and service providers are increasingly vocal about the pressures squeezing their margins, and many…

Big business has few friends left. On the political right, large corporations are accused of chasing global markets at the expense of national loyalty, of importing social agendas into the workplace, and of cosying up to regulators. On the left, they are cast as monopolists, tax avoiders and extractors of value from workers and communities.…

A new baseline skill For decades, the ability to open a document, format a paragraph and save a file has been treated as a given in white-collar work u2014 so routine that it rarely appears on a ru00e9sumu00e9 at all. According to one business expert cited in a recent Fox News report, artificial intelligence literacy…

Intuit has announced that its QuickBooks business is joining Muse for Small Business, a move the company framed as part of its ongoing push to put more tools and support in the hands of the entrepreneurs who make up the bulk of its customer base. The announcement, published by Intuit, positions QuickBooks alongside other participants…

Midlife is often described as a time of winding down: paying off the mortgage, easing toward retirement, resisting the urge to do anything rash. A Business Insider essay published this week tells a different story — that of a woman who, at 56, bought a chateau in France and turned it into both her dream…