Amazon has apologized to one of Congress’ most progressive leaders for a rude and false tweet that suggested reports about drivers relieving themselves in bottles were made up.
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Amazon has apologized to one of Congress’ most progressive leaders for a rude and false tweet that suggested reports about drivers relieving themselves in bottles were made up.
Launch“Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination,” The Washington Post reports.
Launch“More than 1,500 people on the company’s cruise ships have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and dozens have died,” a report from Bloomberg says. How did this happen? Austin Carr and Chris Palmeri explain.
Launch“Allegations of abuse have surfaced at a Bangladeshi factory whose multinational owner manufactures for some of the most popular outdoor brands we love. Here’s why that should surprise no one,” Joe Lindsey writes.
LaunchNorweigan Cruise Line is phasing out plastic water bottles and switching to lower impact containers made by Just Water.
Launch“We are a nation with a tradition of reining in monopolies, no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be. Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American,” Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes writes, referring to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “It is time to break up Facebook.”
Launch“The private equity business model is to strip assets from companies that they acquire. The latest victims: retail grocery chains.”
LaunchJustin Welby, the top clergyman in the Anglican Church, recently gave a fiery speech in which he criticized Amazon for its unethical, exploitative business practices and poor treatment of workers. The Washington Post has a good synopsis of the speech.
LaunchFast Magazine has just published a must-read profile of Buttonsmith, Inc., a Carnation-based union print shop and trusted NPI vendor founded by Henry Burner when he was ten years old. As author Glenn Fleishman explains, the business has grown rapidly and now does millions of dollars in business thanks to the Burner family’s technological prowess and smart business sense. Henry’s mother Darcy serves as CEO, while his father Mike Burner serves as the lead software developer.
Launch“At the store on East 57th Street in Manhattan, organic fuji apples were marked down to $1.99 a pound from $3.49 a pound; organic avocados went to $1.99 each from $2.79; organic rotisserie chicken fell to $9.99 each from $13.99, and the price of some bananas was slashed to 49 cents per pound from 79 cents. The marked-down items had orange signs reading ‘Whole Foods + Amazon.’ The signs listed the old price, the new price and ‘More to come…’.
Launch“Russia is facing a showdown with European leaders over claims it is ‘abusing’ the international “red notice” system for arresting criminals, in an attempt to silence critics of Vladimir Putin,” reports The Telegraph. Red Notice is, not coincidentally, the title of Browder’s book about his experiences in Russia.
Launch“The business advisory councils that Trump has put together are exercises in public relations,” writes Joe Nocera. “They allow Trump to be seen to be presiding over the kind of serious, successful executives he never was himself. The executives attending these meetings are simply lending their prestige to a president who needs their validation.”
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Launch“The changes are coming at Boeing’s Shared Services Group (SSG), which employs about 3,000 people in the Puget Sound region and provides a wide range of support services to Boeing’s corporate and production units.”
LaunchFor the past few weeks the Swiss investment bank has been inviting people to workshops held today and yesterday in Bellevue to “find out what’s behind the post-election optimism”.
LaunchThey are gearing up to drop Fox. So that’s what the executives at Fox News are dealing with. They are dealing with a long-term and
LaunchNew York Times readers share their disgust with United Airlines for kicking a passenger off a plane in the most violent way imaginable.
LaunchPoliticians and regulators allowed the creation of today’s airline cartel: United, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines. Four carriers that have outsized and
LaunchOn Monday, the Seattle City Council took up a proposal which would stop all business with Wells Fargo due to the direct financing of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Launch“The bank has sought to kill lawsuits that its customers have filed over the creation of as many as two million sham accounts by moving the cases into private arbitration — a secretive legal process that often favors corporations,” The New York Times reports.
LaunchMust-watch TV: Senator Elizabeth Warren questions (and eviscerates!) Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf at Senate Banking Committee Hearing
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