Trump Pledges Airlines Help in Feud Over Foreign Rivals’ Aid

That's what the electronics ban from 10 Muslim airline hubs is all about. They used the National Security agencies to fabricate a story about terrorism to help US airlines eliminate rivals.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-08/u-s-airline-chiefs-set-to-talk-jobs-traffic-control-with-trump?source=Snapzu

President Trump’s company pursues second Washington hotel

Amid criticism over ethics of Trump International Hotel, executives tour smaller properties with eye on bringing new Scion brand to D.C.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trumps-company-pursues-second-washington-hotel/2017/03/29/dfd6ee8e-0f42-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?source=Snapzu

Beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev commits to 100 percent renewable energy

Brewing powerhouse Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has committed to secure all of its purchased electricity from renewable sources by 2025. In an announcement on Tuesday, the business said that its commitment would help to "shift 6 terawatt-hours of electricity annually to renewable sources in the markets where AB InBev operates." It added that its decision to go big on renewable energy would cut its operational carbon footprint by 30 percent, equivalent to taking almost 500,000 cars off the road.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/29/beer-giant-anheuser-busch-inbev-commits-to-100-percent-renewable-energy.html?source=Snapzu

Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard

The Fourth Industrial Revolution could bring mass global unemployment. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he’s “not worried at all” about artificial intelligence replacing human workers because it's “50-100 more years” off. In reality, data shows this is already happening — with an estimated 38 percent of existing U.S. jobs at risk of being turned over to machines by 2030, according research from PwC. Another study put out by the University of Oxford last year had similar estimates: The researchers found that 47 percent of US jobs were at risk of automation in the next two decades.
Read more: https://theoutline.com/post/1316/fourth-industrial-revolution-developing-economies?source=Snapzu

Laptop cabin ban 'ineffective' says IATA

The US and UK ban on laptops in cabin baggage on certain flights will not be effective as a security measure, industry body IATA has said. In a strongly-worded speech, IATA chief executive Alexandre de Juniac said the ban also creates "commercial distortions". The US ban was brought in as an anti-terrorist precaution. It covers inbound flights on airlines operating out of 10 airports in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39425532?source=Snapzu

Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person

Jeff Bezos has leapt past Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffett to become the world’s second-richest person.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-29/bezos-rises-to-become-world-s-second-richest-with-amazon-surge?source=Snapzu

Solar power-related jobs in U.S. grew 25% in 2016

New data from the Solar Jobs Census 2016 shows that employment in the solar-power industry increased by a historic 25% nationwide from 2015 to 2016, for a total of 260,077 workers. The industry added 51,218 new jobs in 2016, a growth rate about 17 times faster than that of the overall U.S. economy, which grew by 1.45%. One out of every 50 new jobs added in the U.S. was created by the solar industry, representing 2% percent of all new jobs. Growth occurred in 44 of the 50 states. And in 21 states, solar jobs grew by 50% or more, according to The Solar Foundation.
Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3185217/sustainable-it/solar-power-related-jobs-in-us-grew-25-in-2016.html?source=Snapzu

Monopoly capitalism destroyed American black businesses, which provided safe employment for civil rights activists

Monopoly capitalism destroyed American black businesses, which provided safe employment for civil rights activists.
Read more: http://boingboing.net/2017/03/28/markets-vs-capitalism.html?source=Snapzu

'It's devastating': Documentary reveals 'streams' of water pollution from jean industry

Those jeans you pull on before running out to the corner store were produced by one of the most toxic industries on the planet, according to a new documentary that explores how clothing manufacturers are poisoning the world's water supply. The documentary "RiverBlue" highlights the environmental and human damage caused by the fashion industry, which uses highly toxic chemicals to produce 80 billion garments worldwide each year, while using 3.2 per cent of the world's fresh water.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/it-s-devastating-documentary-reveals-streams-of-water-pollution-from-jean-industry-1.3343791?source=Snapzu

Coca-Cola calls in police after human waste is found in cans

Coca-Cola has called in police to investigate how human waste turned up in a consignment of its drink cans at one of the company’s factories in Northern Ireland. The Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed on Tuesday it had opened an inquiry into how faeces ended up in the cans at the Helllenic Bottling Company factory in Lisburn, Co Antrim. Coca-Cola suspended night-time processing last week at the plant when machines became clogged.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/28/coca-cola-police-human-waste-drinks-cans?source=Snapzu

The Guardian is suing ad tech company Rubicon Project

The Guardian is looking to recuperate "non-disclosed buyer fees".
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/guardian-takes-legal-action-against-rubicon-project-2017-3?source=Snapzu

One Fast Food Fanatic’s Quest to Make His Chicken Chain the Next McDonald’s

Albert Okura lives and breathes the legend of Ray Kroc – he even bought the first McDonald’s location – and he won’t stop until his own franchise is a household name.
Read more: http://narrative.ly/one-fast-food-fanatics-quest-to-make-his-chicken-chain-the-next-mcdonalds/?source=Snapzu

Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom

Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs. The South’s manufacturing renaissance comes with a heavy price. By Peter Waldman.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-alabama-s-auto-jobs-boom-cheap-wages-little-training-crushed-limbs?source=Snapzu

Pure Silicon Valley: Medium asks $5 a month for absolutely nothing

Think of it as being your own mini-VC without shares. Silicon Valley prides itself on disrupting industries – but it has bitten off more than it can chew by trying to take on an already highly competitive market suffering from major money woes. Fancy blog platform Medium has been burning through VC money at the rate of $50m a year trying to take on the world of publishers. It has certainly succeeded in getting hits – at least within the confines of the Bay Area, where it has become the go-to site for tech musings...
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/24/medium_five_bucks_a_month_for_nothing/?source=Snapzu

Pay crash expected in online gig economy as millions seek work

Millions of people in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa get income from online jobs. But as more get online, competition will spark a race to the bottom
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2125712-pay-crash-expected-in-online-gig-economy-as-millions-seek-work/?source=Snapzu

US Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Over Your Right To Refill Ink And Toner Cartridges

Printers are expensive. Recycling and selling used/refilled printer ink cartridges has often been seen as a way to recoup all the money that often gets sunk into the cash cow of the printer business - the ink itself. The ruling of Impression Products, Inc. v Lexmark Int’l, Inc, a recent and rather obscure court case, could potentially change how items are used, recycled, restored, and resold once they have been bought by a customer.
Read more: http://hothardware.com/news/us-supreme-court-hears-oral-arguments-over-your-right-to-refill-ink-and-toner-cartridges?source=Snapzu

Tourist dives to Titanic wreck to begin 2018

In 1912, a trip on board the Titanic was the ultimate in luxury travel. More than a century later, it still is. Deep-pocketed tourists will once again get the chance to glide along the Titanic's deck when London-based travel company Blue Marble Private begins dives to the wreck site in May 2018. Interest in the 20th century's most famous maritime disaster has remained high since Robert Ballard and his team discovered the remains of RMS Titanic almost 32 years ago.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/21/travel/titanic-wreck-dives/index.html?source=Snapzu

Why Power Brings Out Your True Self

Are you a tyrant or a servant? By Matthew Hutson.
Read more: http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/why-power-brings-out-your-true-self?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk's Tesla Solar Shingles Are About to Go On Sale

Elon Musk’s plan for an all-Tesla existence is about to get one step closer, when his high-tech solar roof shingles go on sale in April. Musk tweeted that Tesla would start taking orders for the unique solar tiles in April on Friday in the middle of a massive news-dump about the upcoming Tesla Model 3. Tesla’s new solar roof, made from a sophisticated new kind of glass tile that disguises solar panels as ordinary shingles, was announced as the icing on top of the Tesla and Solar City merger-cake.
Read more: https://www.inverse.com/article/29512-elon-musk-solar-roof-tiles-april?source=Snapzu

GameStop Closing at Least 150 Stores Amid Sales Decline

Videogame chain GameStop Corp., hit hard by a shift to digital downloads, plans to close at least 150 stores this year and expand nongaming businesses. Sales and earnings fell by double digits in the latest period, and the GameStop brand lost some market share during the holiday season due to discounts, Chief Executive J. Paul...
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamestop-closing-at-least-150-stores-amid-sales-declines-1490305703?source=Snapzu

Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs

In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that technology would have advanced sufficiently by century’s end that countries like Great Britain or the United States would achieve a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn’t happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless.
Read more: http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-david-graeber/?source=Snapzu

Geologist for Shell says company hid Nigeria spill dangers

Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary "fiercely opposed" environmental testing and is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a stalled cleanup of the worst oil spills in the West African nation's history, according to a German geologist contracted by the Dutch-British multinational. An environmental study found "astonishingly high" pollution levels with soil "literally soaked with hydrocarbons," geologist Kay Holtzmann wrote in a letter to the Bodo Mediation Initiative.
Read more: https://apnews.com/f3a4a1c4cebc4eaaa2123d9acfb7160f/Geologist-for-Shell-says-company-hid-Nigeria-spill-dangers?source=Snapzu

Rich-world agricultural subsidies ensure coca leaves are Colombia's only viable

Colombia's plan to turn coca-leaf farmers into coffee growers has a fatal flaw: the market.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/why-coca-leaf-not-coffee-may-always-be-colombias-favourite-cash-crop-74723?source=Snapzu

Europe poised for total ban on bee-harming pesticides

The world’s most widely used insecticides would be banned from all fields across Europe under draft regulations from the European commission, seen by the Guardian. The documents are the first indication that the powerful commission wants a complete ban and cite “high acute risks to bees”. A ban could be in place this year if the proposals are approved by a majority of EU member states.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/23/europe-poised-for-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides?source=Snapzu

A Scholarly Sting Operation Shines a Light on ‘Predatory’ Journals

A group of researchers created a ruse to draw attention to the seamy side of open-access journals, some of which will publish just about anything for a fee.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/science/open-access-journals.html?source=Snapzu

For Honor Players Are Staging a Mass Protest Against Microtransactions

Unhappy players stage a mass protest against For Honor's microtransactions urging the playerbase not to spend money on the in-game payments until Ubisoft makes a change.
Read more: https://gamerant.com/for-honor-microtransaction-protest/?source=Snapzu

Two major US technology firms 'tricked out of $100m'

A social media firm was among two companies targeted in an email phishing scam, officials say.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39351215?source=Snapzu

A San Francisco startup just created the world's first lab-grown chicken

San Francisco-based startup Memphis Meats says it has made the world's first lab-grown chicken strips from animal cells. On March 14, Memphis Meats invited a handful of taste-testers to their kitchen to try it. And according to the company, they said it tastes just like chicken. "It is thrilling to introduce the first chicken and duck that didn’t require raising animals. This is a historic moment for the clean meat movement," Memphis Meats' cofounder and CEO, Uma Valeti, said in a press release.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/memphis-meats-chicken-lab-grown-2017-3?source=Snapzu

Subway is advertising for ‘Apprentice Sandwich Artists’ to be paid just £3.50 per hour

Fast food chain Subway has come under fire for seeking to pay young “apprentices” just £3.50 per hour. An advert listed on a Government website, which has since been taken down, sought applicants to become “Apprentice Sandwich Artists” at the fast food chain’s Gateshead branch. Successful candidates were offered just £119 per week for five 8pm to 5pm days, including weekends, which it said amounted to 35 hours of work. The rate is the minimum that employers are required to pay apprentices by law.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/subway-apprentice-sandwich-artists-pay-350-hour-minimum-wage-gateshead-branch-a7640066.html?source=Snapzu

Inside Amazon’s Battle to Break Into the $800 Billion Grocery Market

After almost a decade of food retail experiments with little success online, the e-commerce giant is embracing the physical stores it once shunned.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-20/inside-amazon-s-battle-to-break-into-the-800-billion-grocery-market?source=Snapzu

Apple sold $4.2 billion of product in New Zealand, paid $0 local taxes

The big technology story in New Zealand this weekend is about Apple's tax bill. Or rather, the lack thereof. The electronics giant sold $4.2 billion (NZD) worth of products in New Zealand, but it didn't pay any local tax at all. That's according to a Saturday report from the New Zealand Herald. Apple did pay $37 million in income tax based on its New Zealand sales, but it paid that money to the Australian government, since that's where the New Zealand operation is run from.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/03/report-apple-stiffs-new-zealanders-completely-on-taxes/?source=Snapzu

How Stores Are Designed To Fat Shame

Store layouts often discriminate against plus-size shoppers, writes professor Kathryn Anthony. What can be done about it?
Read more: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3068975/how-stores-are-designed-to-fat-shame?source=Snapzu

Uber president Jeff Jones quits, deepening turmoil

Ride services company Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has been thrust deeper into turmoil with the departure of company president Jeff Jones, a marketing expert hired to help soften its often abrasive image.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-jeffjones-idUSKBN16Q0X3?source=Snapzu

The wealthy are going underground as luxury doomsday bunkers sprawl across Kansas

For many, the world just doesn’t feel like a safe place anymore. Pandemics, the re-emerging threat of nuclear war, terrorist attacks, and even the threat of a good old fashioned natural disaster have many scanning prepper sites online and stockpiling food in their basements. For some people, though, that just isn’t good enough. Those with the means to do so are flocking to snap up luxury survival condos built on the site of a converted missile silo in Concordia, three hours north of Kansas City.
Read more: http://monetarywatch.com/2017/03/wealthy-going-underground-luxury-doomsday-bunkers-sprawl-across-kansas?source=Snapzu

Ikea India Announces 26-Week Parental Leave For Both Men, Women

Furnishings company Ikea India has announced a new parental leave policy in which all employees, including men, will be entitled to six months of parental paid leave from this month. In addition to the 26 weeks leave, women employees will have an option of truncated work hours by 50 per cent for another 16 weeks, the Swedish furnishings heavyweight said. "I am delighted to share this news with all our co-workers in India who are working towards opening stores and building the Ikea brand," Ikea India Country HR Manager Anna-Carin Mansson said.
Read more: http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-ikea-india-announces-26-week-parental-leave-for-both-men-women-1669296?source=Snapzu

Sony patented a way for you to steal battery power from your friend's phone

A new patent filed by Sony could let you charge a smartphone by sucking precious energy from a friend's device. The patent describes a way to wirelessly transfer power between devices using near-field communication (NFC) technology. It doesn't specify that these devices would necessarily be phones, instead using the term "portable consumer electronic device."
Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/03/16/sony-wireless-charging-patent?source=Snapzu

Congress votes to allow states to drug-test the unemployed

President Donald Trump is expected to sign off on a new law that will likely subject more unemployed Americans to drug tests before they can claim jobless benefits. The resolution — approved by the Senate on Tuesday after passing in the House in February — nixes a Labor Department regulation that limited how many unemployment-benefit applicants states could test for drugs. The old rule, implemented under former President Barack Obama, mandated that states could only test applicants if they were looking for work in jobs that require regular drug screenings.
Read more: http://fox61.com/2017/03/15/congress-votes-to-allow-states-to-drug-test-the-unemployed-tmwsp/?source=Snapzu

Netflix’s Latest Streaming Record: Members Viewed 250 Million Hours of Video on a Single Day in January

Netflix members from around the world helped break the company’s latest streaming record earlier this year: Netflix streamed more than 250 million hours of movies and TV shows to its members on January 8, according to the company’s VP of content delivery Ken Florance. Florance made this announcement during a presentation during Netflix’s Lab Day at the company’s headquarters in Los Gatos, California Thursday, a press event the company used to highlight some of the technology it uses to distribute its TV shows.
Read more: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/netflix-250-million-hours-1202010393/?source=Snapzu

Disney will pay $3.8 million in back wages after feds allege wage and hour violations

The U.S. Labor Department and The Walt Disney Co. have reached an agreement that will provide $3.8 million in back wages to theme park and timeshare workers following what federal officials said were violations of minimum wage, overtime and recordkeeping rules. Under the agreement, back wages will be paid to 16,339 employees of the Disney Vacation Club Management Corp. and the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc., both in Florida.
Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-bz-disney-wages-labor-violations-20170317-story.html?source=Snapzu

The Wrongest Profession

How economists have botched the promise of widely distributed prosperity—and why they have no intention of stopping now. By Dean Baker.
Read more: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-wrongest-profession-baker?source=Snapzu

Why Spotify could be about to limit some music to its Premium service

Less than two weeks after Spotify passed the 50 million paid subscriber mark, reports are now surfacing that the music-streaming giant is considering putting more limits in place for the free service.
Read more: http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/17/why-spotify-could-be-about-to-limit-some-music-to-its-premium-service/?source=Snapzu

Tesla to raise $1 billion through stock and loan offerings

Tesla will raise a little more than $1 billion to fund the launch of its upcoming Model 3 electric car and to strengthen its balance sheet, the company announced today. Last year, Tesla made a similar stock offering to fund Model 3 production, although without the convertible notes, and another back in 2015. $250 million will come from a secondary stock offering, plus $750 million in convertible senior notes (basically a loan), as well as options for the underwriters to purchase an additional 15 percent of each offering.
Read more: http://www.updates24-7.com/2017/03/tesla-to-raise-1-billion-through-stock.html?source=Snapzu

Noam Chomsky predicts Donald Trump’s administration will cause another financial crash - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Noam Chomsky has warned the Donald Trump-fuelled rally in capital markets is coming to a close and another financial crash is on the horizon. The linguist, philosopher and social critic said the President’s “anti-estabishment” status was a “joke” given his establishment appointees and anti-regulation policies, which have encouraged the stock market. “What's anti-establishment?” he asked, as reported by AlterNet.
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/noam-chomsky-predicts-donald-trumps-administration-will-cause-another-financial-crash-35534684.html?source=Snapzu

Why Blue States Should Exit Red America

A declaration of independence from Trump’s America. By Kevin Baker. .
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america?source=Snapzu

Cops Told This Uber Driver It's Illegal to Film Them. Surprise, He's a Lawyer.

Jesse Bright was driving an Uber customer in Wilmington, North Carolina last month when he was stopped by police. His passenger was ordered from the car and searched on suspicion of drug violations. Bright decided to turn on his camera and record whatever might happen next. But the officers on the scene did not take kindly to being filmed, with one officer telling Bright, "Be careful because there is a new law. Turn it off or I'll take you to jail." Bright demanded to know what new law the officer was speaking of, but instead he was ordered out of the car.
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2017/03/10/cops-tell-uber-driver-attorney-film?source=Snapzu

You could soon have to share your genetic screen results with your boss

Opposition growing to bill that would permit ‘invasive questions’ to be asked and penalise those who decline to answer
Read more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/03/14/you-could-soon-have-to-share-your-genetic-screen-results-with-your-boss/?source=Snapzu

Bitcoin-based pyramid schemes flourishing in regulatory vacuum

Some small-time traders are taking advantage of the absence of rules governing crypto-currencies in India by creating multi-level marketing (MLM) or pyramid-like schemes with bitcoin as the base product. The issue of multi-level marketing schemes is a global problem; however, these are now gaining traction in India owing to a lack of governing guidelines and the rapid rise in value of the crypto-currency, according to Digital Assets and Blockchain Foundation of India (DABFI), a self regulatory organization for bitcoin and blockchain companies.
Read more: http://www.livemint.com/Industry/T2vj9S40bVtKkTSxs49QqM/Bitcoinbased-pyramid-schemes-flourishing-in-regulatory-vacu.html?source=Snapzu

AT&T allegedly “discriminated” against poor people in broadband upgrades

It's no secret that ISPs can make more money from network upgrades in wealthy neighborhoods than low-income ones, and a new analysis of Cleveland, Ohio, by broadband advocacy groups appears to show that AT&T is following that strategy. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) and a Cleveland-based group called Connect Your Community alleged in their report today that "AT&T has systematically discriminated against lower-income Cleveland neighborhoods in its deployment of home Internet and video technologies over the past decade."
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/att-allegedly-discriminated-against-poor-people-in-broadband-upgrades/?source=Snapzu

Monsanto Accused of Ghostwriting Papers on Roundup Cancer Risk

Monsanto Co. was accused in court documents of ghostwriting scientific literature that led a U.S. regulator to conclude a key chemical in its Roundup weed killer shouldn’t be classified as carcinogenic. Lawyers suing the company on behalf of farmers and others, who claim exposure to glyphosate caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, alleged in a court filing which was partially blacked out until...
Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/monsanto-accused-ghostwriting-papers-roundup-181802279.html?source=Snapzu

New York City sues Verizon for failing to live up to fiber promises

Verizon is being taken to court after allegedly failing to provide adequate fiber services to New York City. The telecoms giant apparently has failed to fulfill a contract signed back in 2008 to give city residents the option to sign up for fiber-optic FiOS service by 2014. Now it is 2017, according to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the city is "done waiting."
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-york-city-sues-verizon-for-failing-to-live-up-to-fiber-promises/?source=Snapzu