With a $10.7 billion profit on a $33.1 billion revenue, Microsoft has achieved a $1 trillion valuation. It is the third US-based company to exceed this market cap and has since seen its stock price surge by over four percent within a month. The company attributes its growth to its Azure cloud business, a key […]

JPMorgan Chase (“JPMorgan”) recently began tackling a systemic problem long faced by the formally incarcerated and convicted felons by removing the standard criminal background inquiry from its application process. This policy, also known as the “second chance program,” stems from a new effort to increase corporate social responsibility. 10% of JPMorgan’s new hires last year […]

Recent comments by Mark Zuckerberg—thus far hardly known as a China critic—suggest that Facebook is abandoning its charm offensive aimed at China and shifting toward its own flavor of an “America First” policy. After years of trying to enter the Chinese market, Zuckerberg now unabashedly invokes the specter of Chinese dominance in technology to thwart […]

Cryptocurrency entered our lives in 2009 with a “whitepaper” introducing Bitcoin. The revolutionary agenda of Bitcoin was to create a decentralized system by eliminating financial institutions from transactions. Bitcoin garnered tremendous interest from people with a variety of interests and from a variety of fields. In last ten years, countless cryptocurrencies have emerged to form […]

Amazon spent $1.6 million to make the Seattle City Council more business-friendly, but the failed foray into local politics may cost the company far more in the long run. In 2015, Amazon and its employees donated about $130,000 to Seattle City Council candidates. In 2019, that total increased tenfold, with $1 million donated just weeks […]

WhatsApp, a popular cross-platform messaging service, sued the Israeli cybersurveillance firm NSO Group in federal court in San Francisco on October 26, 2019. WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, claimed that NSO’s technology was used to spy on more than 1,400 WhatsApp users across twenty countries. Further, WhatsApp investigated the attacks, from April to May […]

Dennis Muilenburg is having a tumultuous year. As Boeing’s president and Chief Executive Officer over the last give years, Mr. Muilenburg led Boeing through the two crashes and subsequent groundings of its 737 Max aircraft (“MAX”). As part of this ongoing saga, Boeing recently removed Mr. Muilenburg as Chairman of the Board after a multiagency […]

This past week, residents of Northern California prepared for the third major power outage in the last month as PG&E struggled to prevent its powerlines from causing hazardous fires. Extremely dry and windy conditions, combined with PG&E’s antiquated infrastructure, led the company to cut power to potentially millions of residents in an effort to prevent […]

China has been a world economic leader for many decades. Well known for its rapid growth, China comes in at number two on the list of top economies in the world. Americans spend a lot of money on Chinese goods because of their intriguing low prices. Two factors leading to these low prices are the low […]

Recent discovery of the carcinogen asbestos in a bottle of baby powder has led Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to issue a massive recall of 33,000 bottles of its signature product.  Of the 100,000 lawsuits currently being brought against J&J, over 15,000 involve plaintiffs claiming that the baby powder and other talc-based products have caused them […]