Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques attended an annual general meeting in Perth, Australia on May 9, 2019. Jacques will lose about $ 3.5 million in bonuses due to the destruction in May of Australian inland holy sites, the mining company said on August 24, 2020. Will Russell / Associated Press …
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Threat of Apple Inc. to the developer account of Epic Games Inc. to withdraw would have far-reaching effects detrimental to the video game industry, said Microsoft Corp. in a court filed Sunday. Epic’s new submission comes amid a tense showdown with Apple’s AAPL, + 5.15% , which removed Epic video …
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Text size A cruise ship from Carnival. MARK RALSTON / AFP / Getty Images Following the postponement of the launch of German cruises earlier this month, Carnival plans to restore sailings from that country and Italy in early September. The exhibition was a setback for Carnival (ticker: CCL), the largest …
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Text size (Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images) Getty Images Investors bet that Joe Biden will win the presidential election buying shares for clean energy, sending some companies’ share prices soaring. The WilderHill Clean Energy Index, a compilation of green power companies listed on U.S. exchanges, rose to a …
Read More »Donald Trump supports an Oracle Takeover of TikTok. Oracle Should Just Say No.
Text size Oracle founder and chairman Larry Ellison Phillip Pharaoh / Getty Images The week started with strange news: Oracle apparently considered a bid for TikTok. Even touching is that hardly anyone on Wall Street talks about it. This would be a big deal. Oracle (ticker: ORCL) is a 43-year-old …
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