Multinationals are leaving Nigeria. A Singaporean group is sensing an opportunity
At the sprawling Guinness Nigeria brewery in Lagos, workers in high-visibility jackets churn out bottles of Guinness Foreign Extra, a superstrong variety of the Irish stout that has been a…
2 top Penguin Random House editors leaving amid ongoing changes at publishing house
NEW YORK (AP) — Two top editors at Penguin Random House are leaving as the country’s leading trading publisher continues to transform during a period of uncertain revenues and generational…
Storms Batter Houston, Leaving at Least 4 Dead and Hundreds of Thousands Without Power
Four people were killed and nearly a million customers along the Gulf Coast were without power early Friday after intense thunderstorms swept through Texas the night before, bringing heavy rain,…
Melinda French Gates Is Leaving the Gates Foundation. What’s Next?
The philanthropist is resigning as co-chair of the Gates Foundation. Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images Melinda French Gates, a major philanthropic player who created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation alongside her…
Anthropic’s Amodei Siblings On Leaving OpenAI to Start a $15B Company
Anthropic Co-Founder & CEO Dario Amodei speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 at Moscone Center on September 20, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch The Bloomberg…
HSBC CEO Noel Quinn Resigns, Leaving One of the Top Banking Jobs Open
Noel Quinn speaks at the Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit in Hong Kong on Nov. 2, 2022. PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images The British bank HSBC today (April 30) announced…
Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch
2023 was the year social networks realized that they were sitting on massive troves of data. And some companies, such as Twitter (now X) and Reddit, decided to change their…
Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray
The recent surprise announcement that Meta will soon be shutting down its Facebook Groups API is throwing some businesses and social media marketers into disarray. On January 23, Meta announced…
Biden leaving war planning to Israelis but asked ‘hard questions’ about ground invasion strategy this week, US official says
CNN — The US is allowing Israel to make its own calls on timing and strategy in its war with Hamas, but US President Joe Biden did weigh in on…