“We are adding automotive service providers to our national network as fast as possible as it’s one of our key objectives for 2020. By adding even more options for our driver-base, our proprietary automotive repair and maintenance technology platform has even more value and optional facilities for our hundreds of […]
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One woman weathers a career change and upside-down car loan to pay off $133,000 in debt
One-third of adults age 30 or younger have student loan debt, with the median burden hovering at $17,000. In Debt Diaries, we introduce you to those who took on their debt and came away with a better understanding of themselves. Their testimonials offer hope — and tools — to show […]
Pandemic Forces Digital Change on Japan’s Businesses
(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus pandemic may be a drag on economies across the globe, but in Japan it’s bringing long-overdue change in work habits and tools. About 90% of Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co.’s non-manufacturing employees have worked from home. Department-store chain Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. is using video chats […]
Pandemic Forces Digital Change on Japan’s Analog Businesses
(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus pandemic may be a drag on economies across the globe, but in Japan it’s bringing long-overdue change in work habits and tools. About 90% of Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co.’s non-manufacturing employees have worked from home. Department-store chain Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. is using video chats […]
Thousands of you told us you want California to change. We want to hear from even more of you
The 110 Freeway leads south toward downtown Los Angeles. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) It was almost three months ago, but it might as well have been another epoch: In early May, the L.A. Times Opinion section asked readers to envision life in California after the pandemic and share […]
Will Arielle Charnas’ Something Navy Be a ‘Catalyst for Change?’
Click here to read the full article. Arielle Charnas is bringing her much-talked-about brand to market. Will it find its footing in a time of great uncertainty? In March, when the world began to buckle under the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, Charnas shared a series of Instagrams showing her […]
Facebook has failed to control hate speech. Will advertiser demands change anything?
Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, was not all that optimistic in advance of the online meeting that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg had set up with him and the heads of other civil rights groups last Tuesday. Many of them […]
‘Shocking level of bipartisan support’ means Big Tech is facing big (and costly) change
Once seen as a critical tool for internet platforms to police lewd and objectionable online speech, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has gained growing bipartisan support as a law in need of fixing. Enacted in 1996, Section 230 exempts online platforms from liability for most user-generated speech. President […]
Why Jeff Bezos is pouring billions into tackling climate change
Jeff Bezos – AP Jeff Bezos wants you to know that Amazon is serious about tackling climate change. In the space of four days last week, his company launched a $2bn venture capital fund to invest in technologies that tackle carbon emissions, bought an electric self-driving car firm and revealed […]
New York opens traffic-clogged streets to people during pandemic, the city’s latest redesign in times of dramatic change
Harvest Kitchen restaurant, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, making use of New York City’s new policy of opening streets to walking, biking and dining. Ron Adar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On some normally congested New York City streets, cars are gone, replaced by diners tentatively returning to restaurants – though […]
In Charlotte, this artist paints pretty pictures on ugly subjects like climate change
Charlotte artist Barbara Schreiber was to have been one of six resident artists at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation this summer, but the COVID-19 outbreak made that impossible. Instead, Schreiber is content to be in exile at her Third Ward home. She has a studio there, in a […]