Business

Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink backtracked Tuesday and said it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order to block the billionaire’s social media platform, X. Starlink said in a statement posted on X...

To the extent that financial historians ever refer back to August 2024, I suspect it will be for the craziness of the first three days of the month, when equity prices tumbled as investors’ dumped their darling stocks and sent the VIX – Wall Street...

Beverage maker and consumer goods distributor Wisynco Group Limited is already reaping gains from its big investment in expanding its operations. Wisynco has now commissioned two major components of its expansion programme which was originally...

Imagine a customer-service centre that speaks your language, no matter what it is. Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, that runs customer-service centres around the world, has introduced an artificial intelligence translation tool that lets...

Coming off a bad second quarter in which its cash holdings were pressured amid falling revenue and heavy losses, Chairman and CEO of Consolidated Bakeries (Jamaica) Limited, Anthony Chang, says the company is in the process of applying fixes to...

An inflation measure closely tracked by the US Federal Reserve remained low last month, extending a trend of cooling price increases that clears the way for the Fed to start cutting its key interest rate next month for the first time in 4½ years....

The sale of texts for tertiary education, as well as inspirational books, including Bibles, have plummeted by about 70 per cent over the last few years because of their availability online, according to the head of one of the largest booksellers in...

You occupy a leadership role in a government MDA, that is, a ministry, department or agency. As a top public servant, you are deeply committed to strategic plans which make a big difference. But as you look to accomplish a meaningful contribution,...

Julie Thurgood-Burnett had no idea that her COVID-19 lockdown whim of starting a lavender patch on her husband’s family farm outside Toronto would turn into a small business. She had never been a farmer, but before long she had a bright purple...

Innovative Energy Group Limited, IEG, formerly known as Ciboney Group Limited, has acquired a related company for US$17.7 million ($2.8 billion). The agreement with the owners of Innovative Energy Company DBA IEC SPEI Limited, IECL, to purchase 100...

After a string of negative quarters that have dogged Medical Disposables...