Author name: Chad Crabtree

[ad_1] The price of diesel notched a 3-cent increase, according to the Energy Information Administration’s weekly data released Jan. 11. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Ian Bruce, principal analyst at Forrester If you had to summarize current corporate commitments to diversity and equality, it might boil down to this: all talk, no action. That’s the conclusion I began to form when I compiled new data on broad levels of employee and executive diversity and equality across a wide variety

[ad_1] Anthony Levandowski stood at the center of the race between Google and Uber to build self-driving cars. He was there at the beginning of Google’s program in 2009. By the time it became Waymo in 2016, he’d left, founded a self-driving truck company called Otto, and sold that (in 2016) to Uber for $600

[ad_1] Elon Musk is not only the world’s richest person, he lays claim to the biggest net worth ever recorded: $208 billion as of Jan. 8. What he does with it will be closely watched. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] For decades, the beauty industry has been a tough market to break into—particularly for small, independent brands. The dominant entry point was department stores, where brands would have to secure entire counters, a cost-prohibitive measure for many. But as ecommerce emerged, doors began to open for independent beauty merchants to enter the industry. It

[ad_1] A semiconductor shortage is pinching some of the world’s biggest auto manufacturers, costing Daimler AG, Nissan Motor Co., Honda Motor Co., Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV production for a range of cars. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The new owners of J.C. Penney Co. Inc.—Simon and Brookfield Asset Management Inc.—replaced CEO Jill Soltau less than a month after re-launching the department store chain that went bankrupt during the pandemic. Soltau departed Dec. 31. Stanley Shashoua, the chief investment officer of Simon Property Group Inc., took over as interim CEO while a

[ad_1] Massimo BettiolGetty Images Ken Block, the 53-year old rally car driver turned Gymkhana drift master, announced he and Ford are parting ways for 2021. The driver is now a “free agent,” according to Hoonigan. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you

[ad_1] North American Class 8 orders in December notched the fourth-highest volume ever as they surpassed 50,000 for the second consecutive month, according to ACT Research citing truck makers’ initial data. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] MSC Industrial Supply Co., the ecommerce-focused supplier of metalworking and other industrial products and services, is maintaining its strength in digital sales amid the ongoing pressures of the pandemic. Ecommerce sales for the first quarter declined by 6.2% to $468.7 million from $499.9 million in the year-earlier period, MSC reported. But ecommerce sales inched