Are Batteries Now on a Trajectory to Replace Fossil Fuels? Three weeks ago, a U.S. agency sent the clearest signal yet that fossil fuels’ days are numbered. It is true enough that the carbon-burning economy has been declared to be on its [...]
Levi Strauss Re-Invents the Way Blue Jeans are Made On a quiet street at the edge of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood is an 88-year-old red-brick building housing the Eureka Innovation Lab for Levi Strauss & Co., the 165-year-old inventor of the [...]
Airbnb Embraces the Enemy Airbnb Inc. is largely known for cheap accommodations and the occasional awkwardness that comes with staying in someone else’s home. Now the company wants to broaden its appeal by incorporating what has long been seen as the enemy: [...]
Cryptocurrencies Could Challenge the Global Financial Order With Bitcoin and so-called “crypto mania” sweeping the world, a handful of countries have stirred at the possibility of issuing their own virtual currencies based on blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin. For now, the idea [...]
BlackRock Seeks to Become the Next Berkshire Hathaway BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, is seeking to raise more than $10 billion to buy and hold stakes in companies. In this way, BlackRock CEO Larry Finks seeks to follow Berkshire Hathaway’s [...]
Strategies for Surviving the Retail Apocalypse To see how changing consumer habits are disrupting the retail world, you can drop by the Florida Mall, an upscale complex in Orlando owned by mall giant Simon Property Group. A few years back, with traffic [...]
First Solar Taps Robots for Competitive Advantage A year ago, First Solar Inc.’s future looked uncertain. Deeply underpriced by a string of Chinese competitors, the Tempe, Ariz., maker of solar panels laid off hundreds of workers, sold equipment, and shut down its [...]
With Housing Affordability on the Decline, Trailer Parks Gain a New Appeal America’s growing affordability housing gap is prompting many people to rethink the traditional single-family home and instead consider mobile home communities. Changing demographics have created demand for a different kind [...]
Glaxo SmithKline Retools to Take On Rival AstraZeneca It might not be so difficult to understand why Emma Walmsley has replaced almost half of GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s key executives in the past year. Glaxo has long held the title of Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical [...]
European Firms Look to HERE in the Push for Autonomous Vehicles Since Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz out-maneuvered potential bidders including Apple, Facebook and Alibaba to acquire HERE in 2015 for $3.1 billion, the mapping and location-based services company has made strategic moves [...]