It's bad enough that Bed Bath & Beyond was selling blackface pumpkins – but adding a motion sensor so they started singing My Mammy when someone walked by was way over the top.
'An extreme lack of sensitivity': Bed Bath & Beyond pulls jack-o'-lanterns over blackface claims
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...cism/23846183/
Today's headline:
Trump's order: 'Screw Amazon'
James Mattis was told by the President to "screw Amazon" on a Pentagon contract, a new biography of the former Defense Secretary says.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/26/pol...act/index.html
And look what happened yesterday as a result of Trump's order. Can you say "abuse of power"? I knew you could.
Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft in snub of Amazon
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/25/pol...act/index.html
Immediately after LVMH, parent company of Luis Vuitton and Christian Dior, announced a $14.5 billion bid for Tiffany, Tiffany shares soared by 28%. Right now they're up $30.64, a gain of 31.1%. Charles Tiffany opened a stationery store in 1837 in New York City. The store eventually shifted its focus to jewelry and there are now more than 300 Tiffany stores worlwide.
Louis Vuitton owner offers to buy jewelry icon Tiffany & Co
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/28/inves...ton/index.html
DirecTV requires subscribers to pay for hundreds of channels they'll never watch. DirecTV charges a monthly $7 "regional sports fee." DirecTV charges a monthly $10 fee for HD channels. (Dish does not.) Every month, DirecTV charges sales tax on their receivers, even though customers do not own them. DirecTV offers low "introductory rates" that more than double after 12 months. Does anyone wonder why DirecTV is losing subscribers?
Will AT&T keep DirecTV? Pay-TV unit lost 1.2 million customers in third quarter.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ivist-investor
Memo to Donald Trump: You never should have promised to "get coal miners back to work." Coal is a dying industry. Natural gas, solar energy and wind energy are much cheaper – and much cleaner.
Murray Energy, America's largest private coal miner, files for bankruptcy
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/busin...tcy/index.html
I think we can now say "Forever 21" is a misnomer – at least the "Forever" part.
Bankrupt Forever 21 is closing 200 stores
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/busin...ngs/index.html
In 2016, Russian trolls created thousands of fake accounts on Facebook and spread pro-Trump, anti-Clinton propaganda. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he believes in "free expression." Therefore, Facebook will continue to allow political advertising, whether truthful or not. Zuckerberg should believe in truth more than he believes in free expression. Twitter, however.......
Twitter bans political ads after Facebook refused to do so
CNBC, Oct 30 2019 1:28 PM
Twitter will no longer allow political ads on its website, CEO Jack Dorsey announced today. Facebook, by contrast, recently said it would not fact-check or remove ads placed by politicians. Facebook’s decision has sparked backlash from lawmakers and employees. Earlier this month, Chinese video app TikTok became the first major social media platform to ban political ads from its platform.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/30/twit...-to-do-so.html
The combined company will be worth $50 billion, with annual revenue of $190 billion, and will be the fourth-largest automaker behind Toyota, Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan. Hey, where are all the American automakers?
Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot to merge
The deal would create the world's fourth-largest automaker.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/31/fiat...-to-merge.html
Easterbrook studied natural sciences at St. Chad's College in England. While CEO of McDonald's, he did some extracurricular studying of biology, if you get my meaning.
McDonald's fires CEO Steve Easterbrook over relationship with an employee
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mcdonal...ee-11572816660
In opposing this merger, the FCC's two Democratic regulators said it will turn our nation's wireless market into a "cozy oligarchy dominated by just three carriers" and will lead to higher prices. Have there ever been any mergers of banks, airlines, supermarkets, retailers, automobile manufacturers or other businesses that have resulted in lower prices? Umm.......
FCC officially approves $26 billion Sprint/T-Mobile merger in party line vote
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachels.../#14905bb042bf
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