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Steve Jobs’ vision of a “computer for the rest of us” sparked the PC revolution and made Apple an icon of American business. But somewhere along the way, Jobs’ vision got clouded — some say by his ego — and he was ousted from the company he helped found. Few will disagree that Jobs did Read more
A recent BuzzFeed profile of Google’s new CEO, Sundar Pichai, paints a picture of Pichai as an even-keeled, relatively predictable kind of guy. Formerly Google’s product chief, Pichai became Google’s CEO in 2015, after the company reorganized its management structure. Google’s then CEO, Larry Page, became CEO of parent company Alphabet, which oversees Google as Read more
Jack Ma is one of China’s richest men, with a fortune valued at nearly $30 billion. As executive chairman of Alibaba Group, he leads the dominant force in Chinese e-commerce, a company with a market value of $264 billion and some 450 million customers. A global ambassador for Chinese business, he spent 800 hours aloft Read more
Mark Zuckerberg’s comments a few days ago, about the necessity of a universal basic income, reveal that the Facebook CEO is feeling bold in his now fairly obvious political ambitions. The very concept of a basic income – paid to every citizen regardless of circumstances – seems antithetical to the current state of US politics. Read more
Prince Alwaleed, a nephew of the king and owner of investment firm Kingdom Holding, invests in firms such as Citigroup and Twitter. He was among 11 princes, four ministers and tens of former ministers detained, three senior officials told Reuters on Sunday. The purge against the kingdom’s political and business elite also targeted the head Read more
TOKYO (Reuters) – Kobe Steel (5406.T) executives, including President Hiroya Kawasaki, will decide whether to resign to take responsibility for a cheating scandal after a report from independent investigators due by year-end, two sources told Reuters. The company also plans to release an internal report on the falsification of product specifications around Friday, said one Read more
