Amazon Makes ‘Climate Pledge’ As Workers Plan Walkout
By: Alina Selyukh September 19, 2019 Amazon is “done being in the middle of the herd” when it comes to climate-focused company policies, CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday. The company is pledging to power its global infrastructure with 100% renewable energy by 2030 and to be carbon-neutral by 2040. To help get there, it plans […]
UK economy has ‘too few robots’, warn MPs
By: Sean Farrell September 18, 2019 The UK is lagging behind the world’s other advanced economies in the shift to robots and automation in the workplace – putting jobs, businesses and the prosperity of whole regions at risk, according to an influential group of MPs. MPs on the business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) committee […]
Money talks: Purpose vs profit
By: The Economist September 17, 2019 What are companies for? The orthodoxy was that they exist primarily to pursue profit. But a new faith in higher corporate purpose as a means to address social injustice, climate change and inequality is sweeping the Western business world. How much is this trend of “reverse Friedmanism” going to change […]
BBC chief: TV entering second wave of disruption from streaming services
By: Julia Hunt September 15, 2019 Lord Tony Hall has said the television industry is about to enter “a second wave of disruption” because of new entrants in the streaming market. The BBC director-general said the main impact of newcomers such as Disney and Apple could be on established services such as Amazon and Netflix. […]
ESG Investing: Is Facebook a Responsible Investment?
By: Tim Beyers September 13, 2019 If you’re searching for a feel-good stock, see how Facebook, the king of social media, scores on The Motley Fool’s ESG framework. Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is the world’s largest social network, with 2.7 billion people around the globe using one of the company’s social media products at least once monthly. […]
Airbus Planes Will Track How Often Passengers Go to the Bathroom
By: Victor Tangermann September 13, 2019 Bathroom Break In the future, airplane bathrooms will never run out of toilet paper again. At least, that’s Airbus’s excuse for a cursed-sounding new Internet of Things platform that collects a large amount of data about passengers, according to Bloomberg — including how often they go to the bathroom […]
The Redmond doctrine
By: The Economist September 12, 2019 IS MICROSOFT A digital nation and does it have a secretary of state? The answer of Brad Smith, the software giant’s top lawyer, is, well, diplomatic. Nation states are run by governments and firms need to be accountable to them, he says. But yes, he admits, he worries a […]
How the world will change as computers spread into everyday objects
By: The Economist September 12, 2019 O N AUGUST 29TH, as Hurricane Dorian tracked towards America’s east coast, Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, an electric-car maker, announced that some of his customers in the storm’s path would find that their cars had suddenly developed the ability to drive farther on a single battery charge. […]
Shop closures and self-checkouts cost tens of thousands of women’s jobs
By: Robert Booth September 12, 2019 A surge in shop closures and the growth of automated retail are forcing tens of thousands of women out of work, according to a study of the economic pain caused by high street decline. With twice as much UK shopping now online than in 2011 and amid a wave […]