Business

• Washington Post taps former Dow Jones chief William Lewis as new CEO

  6-11-2023 Business NY Post - Business 29

  The Washington Post named former Dow Jones boss William Lewis as its chief executive officer, ending a search for a new leader to turn around...

• Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd to step down after nearly a decade

  6-11-2023 Business NY Post - Business 51

  Bumble’s chief executive Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down from the female-focused dating app she founded nearly 10 years ago, and will be...

• Elon Musk launches ‘Grok’ on X, an AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious streak’

  6-11-2023 Business NY Post - Business 47

  Elon Musk has unveiled Grok, an artificial intelligence tool that "has a rebellious streak" and rivals the likes of ChatGPT with a unique design...

• More fruit pouches for kids are being recalled because of illnesses that are linked to lead

  6-11-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 35

  Federal health officials are expanding an investigation into potentially lead-tainted pouches of apple cinnamon fruit puree marketed for children...

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• Afghan farmers lose income of more than $1 billion after the Taliban banned poppy cultivation

  6-11-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 34

  Afghan farmers have lost income of more than $1 billion from opium sales after the Taliban outlawed poppy cultivation, according to a report from...

• Californians bet farming agave for spirits holds key to weathering drought and groundwater limits

  6-11-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 34

  Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they...

• Trump's decades of testimony provide some clues about how he'll fight for his real estate empire

  6-11-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 30

  Donald Trump has testified in court as a football owner, casino builder and airline buyer. He bragged in a deposition that he saved "millions of...

• China Premier Li seeks to bolster his country's economic outlook at the Shanghai export fair

  6-11-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 43

  Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Sunday pledged to continue deepening reforms, expand free trade zones and relax market access for foreign investment...

• New Yorkers back ‘ugly’ 32-foot cell phone towers, outnumber critics: poll

  6-11-2023 Business NY Post - Business 30

  New York City residents overwhelmingly support erecting hulking 32-foot 5G cell phone antenna towers in their neighborhoods to bolster Wi-Fi...

• Midtown, Lower Manhattan foot traffic down 33% — one of worst post-COVID rates in US: survey

  6-11-2023 Business NY Post - Business 27

  "We’ve been tracking since early 2022, and New York was an early comeback story – but then stalled," said Karen Chapple, director of the University...

• Empire State Building office occupancy rate tops 90% to buck NYC’s woes

  5-11-2023 Business NY Post - Business 27

  When you’re a huge, publicly-traded company with more than eight million square feet of offices in a struggling market, it helps to have a...

• Famed NYC French restaurant La Grenouille reopens after gas leak

  5-11-2023 Business NY Post - Business 39

  They’re breaking out the  Dom Perignon at 3 E. 52nd Street. La Grenouille, the romantic, last surviving outpost of the city’s old-school...