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23andMe was a disaster waiting to happen. What did anyone expect?

31.03.2025 10

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Storm in an ice-cream cup: Ben & Jerry’s social activism vs. its corporate owner

24.03.2025 10

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The new hate for Elon Musk is childish and hypocritical

17.03.2025 20

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What’s so wrong with Elon Musk’s e-mail asking bureaucrats to sum up their work?

03.03.2025 10

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Trump and Zuckerberg, a new bromance for a brave new world

24.02.2025 10

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Trump was right to kill the penny. Now, onto the nickel

17.02.2025 10

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Astronauts stranded by Boeing are set to finally come home. But the company remains lost

08.02.2025 10

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It’s Donald Trump’s game, and Canada needs to learn how to play it

03.02.2025 10

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In keeping TikTok in the U.S., Donald Trump is channelling his inner Sun Tzu

25.01.2025 10

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With Nippon barred from buying U.S. Steel, it’s now unclear who or what can save it

18.01.2025 10

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Behold as mercenary business interests bow before Donald Trump

10.01.2025 4

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Both Zuckerberg and Musk agree OpenAI shouldn’t be for-profit. Maybe they are right

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. When it comes to making strange bedfellows, Big Tech is giving politics a run for its...

06.01.2025 9

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Honda and Nissan are in Hail Mary merger talks. Their desperation speaks volumes

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. Revelations this week that Honda and Nissan are in merger talks should come as no...

20.12.2024 8

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In ousters at Intel and Stellantis, the boards were at fault for acting too late

Earlier this week, Intel's board gave CEO Pat Gelsinger the option to retire or be fired. He chose the former. Gelsinger delivers a speech at the...

06.12.2024 4

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Arkansas just found a large lithium deposit. But lithium ain’t what it used to be

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. Just weeks after a discovery that could transform humble Arkansas into an unexpected...

23.11.2024 4

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With Trump’s return, suddenly TikTok no longer seems a national-security threat

Trump's turnaround on the high-profile TikTok issue could redefine what a national-security threat is in this context, even though the facts of the...

15.11.2024 2

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Is Subway not serving enough meat? New lawsuit shows how not to do marketing

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. If you are of a certain age, you may remember Wendy’s iconic 1980s advertising slogan,...

09.11.2024 10

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Management complacency lies at the heart of Volkswagen’s mess

A person carries luggage near the Volkswagen power plant in Wolfsburg, Germany on Oct. 30. The impending shuttering of factories for the first time...

02.11.2024 6

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Disney’s new CEO must remember its core business is simple: creating magic

An inflatable Disney logo stands at a press event ahead of launching a streaming service in the Middle East and North Africa, at Dubai Opera in...

25.10.2024 2

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The tone-deaf strategy and bad leadership at the heart of Stellantis’s failure

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares at the production line of the new Peugeot e-3008 and e-5008 electric car at the Stellantis car factory in Sochaux,...

19.10.2024 30

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Dockworker strikes are a lose-lose for governments

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. The dockworkers’ strikes crippling major seaports from the Gulf of Mexico, along the...

03.10.2024 2

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Physical banking branches are making a comeback because money is a personal thing

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. When I worked on Wall Street in the 1990s, my boss, Donald Marron, the chairman and...

28.09.2024 10

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Meta’s rolling out Instagram teen accounts is a sneaky move indeed

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. As public relations hustles go, Meta’s new Instagram Teen Account program is a pretty...

21.09.2024 10

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High condo fees and a weak loonie make Florida no country for snowbirds

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a roundtable discussion with condominium owners, at the Roberto Alonso Community Center, Sept. 9, in Miami...

14.09.2024 5

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At troubled Boeing, it might just be the union that saves it

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner taxis after its landing at Le Bourget airport, east of Paris, upon its presentation for the first time at the 2011 Paris...

07.09.2024 3

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Right to disconnect laws are a naïve stroll through policy fantasyland

The modern work force is driven by round-the-clock and often round-the-globe connectivity. The trade-off for flexibility is that workers are...

31.08.2024 6

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Kamala Harris’s corporate tax hike will benefit red states that are business-friendly

In announcing the proposed tax hike, the Harris-Walz campaign said it was part of its plan to make sure corporations and billionaires “pay their...

24.08.2024 3

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The long-ailing Starbucks made a smart move by hiring Chipotle CEO

Brian Niccol, the Chipotle chief executive, in Denver, on June 19, 2018. BENJAMIN RASMUSSEN/The New York Times News Service Gus Carlson is a U.S.-...

16.08.2024 3

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Google antitrust ruling reeks of government overreach and has dire consequences

Google logo displayed on a smartphone screen on Dec. 22, 2023. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/Getty Images Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe...

09.08.2024 2

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Ontario should be thanking Ford for pivoting away from electric vehicles

A worker leaves the Ford assembly plant in Oakville, Ont., on July 18. Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The...

27.07.2024 3

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China is disrupting the Boeing-Airbus duopoly. It’s a dangerous situation

Workers stand next to a model of a CR929 developed by China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Corporation (CRAIC), a joint venture between...

20.07.2024 20

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Delivery drones are getting shot out of the sky, robots kidnapped

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. Big retailers and home delivery services eager to improve efficiencies by employing...

13.07.2024 20

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