Chile’s plan for state control in lithium dismays business
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean government’s newly announced plan to have the state take a majority stake in the lithium industry disconcerted business leaders, though analysts cautioned that the proposal appears to try to strike a middle ground between competing interests.
President Gabriel Boric announced in a national broadcast Thursday night that private companies will have to partner with the government in exploiting Chile’s lithium, a metal used to make rechargeable batteries.
Boric said the state would take a controlling interest in each partnership, leading some to call it a nationalization of the industry, while others disagreed.
“Phrising it…
Tupperware stock plummets after warning it may go out of business
Tupperware says it may go out of business
Tupperware may go out of business, the company warns
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Tupperware is warning it may go out of business, just three years after the retro brand enjoyed a surprise surge from legions of pandemic shut-ins trying their hands at cooking.
The Orlando-based company said it had “substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern” in a press release and filing securities.
Shares of the direct marketing company plunged 50% after the announcement late Friday. Tupperware’s stock was trading at about $1.28 a share Tuesday, down 70% since the start…
Dominion suit against Fox News spotlights Maria Bartiromo
How do you solve a problem like Maria Bartiromo?
Fox News executives may be asking themselves that question as she emerges as a central figure in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6-billion defamation suit against the conservative news network.
In released court documents and deposition testimony connected to the case, Bartiromo is cited throughout for allowing former President Trump’s false claims about 2020 election fraud to air on the network in an effort to stop angry viewers from abandoning the network.
Falsehoods such as the claim that the Denver-based voting machine maker was founded in Venezuela to aid Hugo Chávez and that…
President Biden jokes to dinner guests if you’re disoriented or confused, you’re either ‘drunk or Marjorie Taylor Greene’
President Joe Biden laughs as he speaks during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023.Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo
Biden mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during his White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech.
He said that if the guests felt confused, they would either “drunk or Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
Biden also poked fun at his political rivals and himself at the annual event.
President Joe Biden made a jibe at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, suggesting the congresswoman was “confused.”
“I want everyone…
BuzzFeed News to be shuttered in corporate cost cutting move – Business News
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FILE – The entrance to BuzzFeed in New York was seen on Nov. 19, 2020. Pulitzer prize winning digital media company BuzzFeed is cutting about 15% of its staff, according to multiple media reports. In a memo sent to staff, co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said that the New York company was going to start the process of shutting down its news division, and that cuts would also occur across its business, content, tech and administrative teams. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
Pulitzer Prize winning digital media outlet BuzzFeed News is being shut down as part of…
Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers
Amazon will lay off 9,000 more employees, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday.
The cuts are on top of the previous layoffs that commenced last November and extended into January. That round affected more than 18,000 employees.
Amazon made the decision to lay off more employees as it looks to streamline costs and take into account the uncertain economy, as well as the “uncertainty that exists in the near future,” Jassy said. The company just wrapped up the second phase of its annual budgeting process, referred to internally as “OP2.”
“The overriding tenet of our…
Judge denies Elizabeth Holmes’ request to stay out of prison while she appeals fraud conviction
A US District Court judge has ruled that Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of the disgraced blood-testing company Theranos, cannot remain free on bail while she appeals her fraud conviction.
According to court documents filed Monday, Judge Edward Davila ruled that the portion of the conviction that Holmes is appealing is not likely to be overturned. A jury found Holmes guilty in January 2022 of four counts of fraud in connection with her leadership at Theranos. In November, she was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.
In his latest decision, Davila noted Holmes is challenging her conviction based…
Police: Crypto firm founder Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro – Business News
Crypto founders arrested
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Police in Montenegro have arrested Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon, who is wanted in South Korea in connection with a $40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency that devastated retail investors around the world, the European country’s interior minister said Thursday.
“Montenegrin police arrested an individual who is believed to be one of the most wanted fugitives, South Korean citizen Do Kwon,” Interior Minister Filip Adzic said on Twitter.
Montenegrin authorities were awaiting official confirmation of the identity of a man…
