The relationship between Apple and Qualcomm dates back to 2011 when Qualcomm became Apple’s main supplier for modem chips to use in its smartphones. Despite this history, the relationship between the companies has turned bitter. Last year, Apple alleged that Qualcomm’s patent royalty payments constituted an “illegal business model” which “amounts to a scheme of extortion.” […]

As the world grapples with the grotesque killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey, business leaders worldwide are carefully navigating their relationships with Saudi Arabia. While some had been optimistic that Mohammed bin Salman represented a relatively progressive face for the notoriously opaque Sunni powerhouse, what looks to […]

Nearly three years after Volkswagen Group’s (VW) exposure in the notorious “Dieselgate” scandal, the company seems to have rebounded strongly and done away with the bitter taste that the colossal dupe gave consumers. In 2015, regulators discovered that VW had fitted approximately 482,000 cars in the US and 11 million more worldwide with a “defeat […]

President Trump recently announced an intention to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to lift a summertime prohibition on 15% ethanol gasoline. Trump announced the plan shortly before a campaign rally in Iowa — the largest ethanol-producing state in the country. Ethanol is a biofuel created primarily from corn. Currently, gasoline containing 10% ethanol is sold […]

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that manages its group companies and provides information technology and telecommunication services as one of the world’s largest public companies. One of SoftBank’s many goals is its Vision Fund, which seeks to raise $100 billion in an effort to “invest in businesses and foundational platforms” that it believes […]

The massive Walt Disney (DIS.N) media and entertainment empire is home to Pixar, Mickey Mouse, the Marvel movies, and the famed Star Wars franchise. The company also owns ABC and ESPN. In June 2018, Disney proposed a $71.3 billion bid to acquire another powerful media conglomerate, Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox. Fox is the source […]

On Monday, October 15th, Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a plan to close 142 of its 700 stores by the end of the year. Though many view the downfall of the retailer as inevitable in the age of e-commerce, the bankruptcy proceedings have revealed the flawed financial engineering that led Sears to its […]

In the last year, data privacy has become a significant issue of public interest. In 2017, the Equifax breach compromised credit information for 143 million Americans. In 2018, Cambridge Analytica was revealed to have obtained data of up to 87 million Americans to psychographically target voters. Often, there is a misunderstanding regarding the difference between […]

Corporations from their inception have been construed as a nexus of stakeholders, including employees and consumers. They are given the blessing of the State to pursue a commercial, yet publicly necessary enterprise. Nevertheless, that view of corporations has given way to a more transactional model wherein employees, in exchange for their wage, have ceded their […]

We are currently perched on the precipice of a biomedical revolution. In the coming years, RNA interference (RNAi) will fundamentally reshape the pharmaceutical landscape. RNAi may help effectively eliminate many of the world’s most resilient viruses, curing some of the most intractable diseases on the planet—everything from Hepatitis B to HIV may be completely neutralized. […]