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In his latest and last annual letter to shareholders, Amazon founder and outgoing CEO Jeff Bezos set a new goal for the $1.7 trillion e-comm...

“Methane emissions are analogous to a wildfire,” Riley Duren says. “Except these wildfires are invisible.”Duren is the CEO of a nonprofit, C...

The US has always relied heavily on private insurance to cover its citizens.As of 2019, roughly two thirds of Americans with healthcare (abo...

The best broadband in the US isn’t in New York or San Francisco. It’s in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And it’s owned by the city’s government—whi...

In 1997, the year Amazon went public, founder and longtime CEO Jeff Bezos started writing an annual letter to the company’s shareholders.Tod...

While many Americans made their own bread at home during the COVID-19 pandemic—nurturing sourdough starters—retail bread prices were steadil...

Last year was not a good one for foreign journalists in China, and this year does not look to be much better.At least 18 foreign reporters w...

The Asia-Pacific region boasts some of the most successful pandemic stories, with places like Taiwan, Singapore, and Australia bringing loca...

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For crypto fans, Coinbase’s $86 billion IPO is a stamp of validation for bitcoin and the nascent world of digital assets. Coinbase’s bottom...

Fueled by a young population, great musical talent, and more streaming opportunities, Africa’s music industry is booming, and the world’s ma...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowCorporate America took a stand against voting restrictions. More than 100 CEOs sign...

John Kerry, America’s special envoy on climate change, is on a whirlwind global tour to drum up support for a climate “leaders summit” on Ea...

With a raging pandemic potentially threatening their business prospects, Indian companies are putting extra efforts into employee retention....

India has been crossing one grim milestone after another this month.Today (April 15), the country crossed 200,000 new Covid-19 infections a...

Since Covid-19 vaccine administration began around the world, side effects have been more severe in women. According to the US Centers for...

More than 6 million consumers have secured a PlayStation 5 since Sony’s next-gen gaming console launched in November. Untold millions more h...

Bernie Madoff, the orchestrator of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died today (April 14) at age 82 in North Carolina, at the Federal Me...

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Grab’s record-breaking deal to merge with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) will raise an eye-popping $4.5 billion in cash. Based...

In November 2020, His Royal Highness (HRH) The Prince of Wales called for all large businesses around the world to appoint a chief sustainab...

Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted against unionizing last week, with a decisive majority opting not to join the Retail, W...

Chinese social media platform Douban is usually seen as the last online sanctuary for China’s liberal internet users. But the platform is no...

To modern workers everywhere,Americans are notoriously averse to taking vacations. And the country’s remote-worker bees have only gotten wor...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe US, EU, and South Africa suspended the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. US data sugge...