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There are 31 posts tagged: business
- Ice cream wars
- 9 December 2025
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, purveyors of cheekily-named, diabetes-inducing shit, has warned that moves at its parent company, the newly-founded Magnum Ice Cream Company, to rein in its social activism will destroy the brand.
(more…)- Google enshitifies the internet
- 15 September 2025
Google has maintained that it's not evil, and the open web is thriving. This is despite the company's use of website scrapers and AI summaries to keep traffic on its site and more ad revenue to itself. Consequently, smaller sites are starved of traffic and revenue, while still others go behind paywalls.
(more…)- Bloomberg blues
- 26 August 2025
YouTube channel Gamers Nexus published a three-and-a-half hours long video entitled The Nvidia AI GPU Black Market, revealing shady dealings by the chip manufacturer. Their upload received a copyright strike from Bloomberg L.P., for including a transformative and illustrative news clip, a mere 75 seconds long, that is clearly covered under fair use principles.
(more…)- Out with the old, in with the less old
- 23 August 2025
Southern USA country-inspired casual dining chain, Cracker Barrel, has courted controversy with a revamp to its venerable nearly five-decade-old logo. Out goes the old cracker and his barrel, in comes a hexagon and different typeface.
(more…)- The gene jeanie
- 5 August 2025
A little furore that's been rumbling over the last few days is now picking up steam.
(more…)- Chinese truths
- 20 July 2025
Someone at Beeb Towers' editors' desk set a lowly beat political reporter onto a
(more…)politics-adjacent
story of cheap Chinese solar panels being sold into Britain's institutional infrastructure. I recognise that our Josh is only a reporter and not a correspondent, but he shows a touching naiveté that will presumably be knocked out of him as he ascends the urinalism ladder.- Charlie Chan-car
- 4 July 2025
On the list of things that really don't appeal to me, a China-made electric-powered car is pretty much close to the top. Which is why Matt Gnaizda's observations on the utter state of the Chinese EV industry hit home. If ever there was any doubt over the foolishness of buying a cheap Chinese EV, or any Chinese EV for that matter, this should put the argument to rest.
(more…)- Really don't say gay
- 9 May 2025
According to Karen Hoggan, a business reporter for BBC News,
(more…)Walt Disney has announced plans to open its first theme park in the Middle East.
I have news for Ms Hoggan: Walt Disney has been dead for six decades, and the only announcements he'll be making are through a medium.- Plastic, not fantastic
- 24 April 2025
Hasbro and Disney have extended their working relationship, by which Hasbro manufactures toys based on the Star Wars and Marvel brands.
(more…)- Texas Fried Chicken
- 19 February 2025
If you can take
(more…)Kentucky
out of KFC you can take KFC out of Kentucky. And Yum Brands, owner of KFC, is doing just that by moving the chicken fryer's headquarters to Texas, alongside its Pizza Hut doughboys.- A Jag for the few
- 8 December 2024
Jaguar has been losing sales over the last few years, competing with BMW and Audi for the executive market. The company's recent rebranding and EV design concept announcement apparently herald a push upmarket to the luxury sector where it can compete with the likes of Bentley.
(more…)- Ripped Jeans
- 28 November 2024
Well, that's torn it. Or them…ho-ho-ho.
(more…)- A Jag for everyone
- 24 November 2024
Jaguar has released a new awareness campaign. I think that's the best word for it,
(more…)awareness
, since they're not actually advertising any models and brand awareness is always good…until it isn't. The carmaker claims that it's aiming to broaden its market appeal, although I cannot for the life of me fathom what market it's appealing to.- Workers' wrongs
- 21 November 2024
A TLDR on how South Korean labour laws don't apply to celebrities introduced me to yet another K-pop girl band, the risibly named NewJeans. Who comes up with this shit?
(more…)- The coffee runs
- 30 October 2024
It appears that having bowel movements with the consistency of the coffee that brought them on is not a major selling point in the overpriced, girth-enhancing beverage marketplace: Starbucks have announced they will stop ruining extra virgin olive oil with their brew. Common sense prevails.
(more…)- Oh fudge
- 12 September 2024
A British fudge maker who had her Instagram account mysteriously suspended, has had it just as mysteriously reinstated.
(more…)Mysteriously
as in after journalists started asking questions, that is.- Be careful what you wish for…
- 24 May 2024
At the beginning of this year, Elon Musk offered a dire warning that
(more…)Chinese car makers would
And it appears that 'Pa Joe's carers must've been listening, for just last week the US announced increased tariffs on imports of electric vehicles from China.demolish
competitors from other countries if there were no trade barriers.- Saying the quiet part out loud
- 9 May 2024
Qu Jing, the head of public relations at Chinese search engine, Baidu, has scored a little PR own-goal. She posted a series of videos on Douyin—
(more…)the Chinese version of TikTok
*—expressing her opinions on people management in adirect and forthright
manner that western business leaders can only dream of.- Megacorp vs megagovt
- 3 April 2024
M$ is to separate its Office and Teams application packages, in face of antitrust investigations by the European Commission.
(more…)- The bubble tea bubble
- 6 February 2024
Writing for BBC Worklife, Aysha Imtiaz seeks to explain Why the UK bubble tea market is 'special'. Except she doesn't really substantiate her premiss that it's special in the first place.
(more…)- UPS in the air
- 31 January 2024
UPS has announced the loss of 12,000 jobs, in the light of a
(more…)difficult and disappointing year
, and a quite luxurious pay deal meted out to its full-time drivers, for whom 2023 seems to have been really quite agreeable.- AI commentary
- 26 January 2024
Following its acquisition of game studio Activision Blizzard, and in the light of wider market pressures, Micro$oft is
(more…)rightsizing
its video gaming division, at the cost of 1,900 jobs.- Anarchy don't come cheap
- 18 May 2023
This is funny. As in so deluded, it's funny.
(more…)- Selling piss
- 16 May 2023
Amelia Robinson is The Columbus Dispatch's opinion and community engagement editor. In the wake of the Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney controversy, she weighed in on the debate with an opinion piece, fearlessly wielding her incomplete grasp of the situation.*
(more…)- Vertically challenged
- 15 January 2023
On behalf of BBC Future Planet, William Park poses a question that I suspect few have pondered:
(more…)How far can vertical farming go?
- The (international) shipping forecast
- 11 January 2022
It never ceases to amaze me: the parochiality of merkans when it comes to international shipping charges. I guess that it doesn't matter if it's outside the fifty states of the union.
(more…)- Fly from home
- 19 March 2021
British Airways has announced plans to make hybrid working a permanent feature of their business.
(more…)- The upside to 'methodical'
- 19 October 2020
In 2018, British Airways experienced a data breach that affected personal and credit card details for more than 400,000 customers. Now, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office has fined the airline £20M for that breach. This is substantially less than the £183M fine that it originally announced in July 2019, after taking into account
(more…)the economic impact of Covid-19
.- Battlefield bomb
- 6 March 2019
Electronic Arts released Battlefield V to anticipated critical praise and less-than-expected consumer enthusiasm. It appears that there many things wrong with it, not least that many gamers were unimpressed with the prospect of fighting as or alongside a member of allied forces during WWII…in the guise of a woman. Not just any woman though: a ginger-haired amputee. Signalling for the win!
(more…)- ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!!! (cancelled due to lack of interest)
- 10 July 2013
Apple is proud of its App Store. They boast of over 50 billion downloads and almost 900,000 apps; although they're more circumspect about actual sales of individual apps.
(more…)- You know where to come. Or not.
- 7 November 2012
Comet, the UK electrical goods retailer is the latest victim of the economic downturn, entering into administration on 2nd November. According to the administrators, Deloitte:
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