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IKEA’s Meatball Supply Chain Goes Digital The furniture retailer is bringing new supply-chain discipline to its multibillion-dollar food service business IKEA’s food service began as an offshoot of the retailer’s furniture showrooms, but it has since become a big business in its own right...

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Insurance Tycoon Greg Lindberg’s Bribery Case Heads to Court Bids by Lindberg and two fellow defendants to have charges dismissed fail Greg Lindberg bought life insurers in the U.S. and abroad and loaned at least $2 billion of their assets to entities he controlled. Photo: /Associated Press...

A Pro-Trump Blog Doxed A Chinese Scientist It Falsely Accused Of Creating The Coronavirus As A Bioweapon The scientist's name, photo, email, and a telephone number are being spread across American social media. Ryan Broderick BuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on January 31, 2020, at 4:03 p.m...

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This week’s weirdest ways to spend money Pampered pets are getting all the attention. Last week, we wrote about all the money that’s pouring into pet-tech land. This week, we’re featuring some of the weirdest ways we’ve recently found to spend cash on our furry friends: dog PACER Minipacer...

AQR Cuts Returns Outlook Now That Everything’s More Expensive (Bloomberg) The quants at AQR Capital Management are here again to warn investors of “soberingly low” returns. A year after their last missive, they’re even more sober. The $186 billion quantitative hedge fund this week updated its...

Aston Martin Lawrence Stroll, the Canadian billionaire who made his name investing in the fashion and motor-racing sectors, is to pay around $263 million for an up-to-20% stake in Aston Martin, the ailing British carmaker. CEO Andy Palmer: "He brings with him his experiences and access to his...

U.S. jobs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has raised eyebrows by saying the coronavirus "will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America." Democrats said the comment was inappropriate, while at least one economist said it was "weird." Simon Baptist of the Economist Intelligence Unit...

Amazon revenues Amazon's share price popped 10% in after-hours trading, thanks to the company hitting a new Q4 sales record. Profits were up 8% for the quarter, having fallen by 25% in Q3—Q4 profits handily beat Amazon's own estimates, and EPS of $6.47 blew way past analyst estimates of $4.04...

Rometty out Ginni Rometty will step down as IBM's chief executive, to be replaced by cloud SVP Arvind Krishna. Rometty has been with Big Blue for four decades, and a host of other top CEOs paid tribute to her yesterday. But IBM's share price has fallen 15% during her seven-year tenure as CEO...

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"As for the future your task is not see it but enable it" - Antoinw de Saint-Exupery

“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” – Giuseppe Verdi. ...

Sayre's law: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."

Auto industry is 3% of the US, GDP...

The Key to Success in a Winner-Take-All World: Be a Glue Person January 29, 20201 Minute Neil Irwin — New York Times economics correspondent and author of How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World— was a guest on a recent Pinkcast episode, and he offered 2 words and 1 question that can help people...

releaseda long-awaited feature that lets you see exactly which websites are stalking you -- even when you’re not on Facebook. The new “Off-Facebook Activity” tracker spits out a list of the apps and sites that share your activity with Camp Zuckerberg. The platform can see when you visit a...