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A German e-commerce startup wants to disrupt the New York City grocery market with deliveries to customers’ apartments in 10 minutes or less. Gorillas, founded last year in Berlin and now available in more than 25 European cities, will begin deliveries in a handful of Brooklyn neighborhoods this month. Brooklyn will be Gorillas’ first location

Record-holding NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has spent more time in outer space than almost any other human on the planet, but even in retirement she’s desperate to go back. On Tuesday, the 61-year-old Whitson revealed that she will do just that — and this time, she’s flying private. Axiom, a Houston-based company that focuses on

For decades, ExxonMobil has deployed Big Tobacco-like propaganda to downplay the gravity of the climate crisis, shift blame onto consumers and protect its own interests, according to a Harvard University study published Thursday. The peer-reviewed study found that Exxon publicly equates demand for energy to an indefinite need for fossil fuels, casting the company as

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said travel demand is rebounding, but he doesn’t expect business travel to ever return to the way it was before the pandemic. “It doesn’t mean business travel is dead, just business travel as we knew it isn’t coming back the way it was,” Chesky said in an interview with CNN’s Poppy

It’s been 365 days since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer on a Minneapolis street. Many of the city’s residents and small business owners that serve them are still reeling from the fallout. Local business leaders say rising crime and a divided state government have obstructed their city’s ongoing recovery from both the

HSBC CEO Noel Quinn isn’t buying into the bitcoin craze. The chief executive told Reuters in an interview this week that his bank has no plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk, and “given the volatility, we are not into bitcoin as an asset class.” HSBC confirmed Quinn’s remarks to CNN Business but declined to

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies plunged earlier this month after Elon Musk said Tesla would stop accepting bitcoin as payment for its vehicles because of the huge amount of energy needed to mine bitcoin. But Musk might be having a slight change of heart. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted late Monday that he spoke with

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a swipe at Big Tech on Monday as he signed a hot-button state bill targeting how digital platforms moderate online content. The legislation marks one of the biggest steps yet by a Republican governor to act on allegations of online censorship at the hands of companies such as Facebook, Google

Twitter’s decision to label a tweet from a leading member of India’s governing party as “manipulated media” could make things even harder for the company in a key market. Police visited Twitter’s offices in the capital Delhi and nearby city of Gurugram late on Monday to order the social media giant to cooperate with an

The European Union has called on airlines to avoid Belarus’ airspace after a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in the country, and a dissident journalist on board was arrested. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday said the bloc was “closing our airspace to planes from Belarus” and

A British clothing retailer has come under fire for trademarking the name of the west African Yoruba people several years ago, igniting a debate online about whether trademarking names of ethnic groups amounts to cultural appropriation. Timbuktu, an outdoor clothing brand based in northern England, filed to trademark the word “Yoruba” in 2015, records from

The European Union will sanction Belarus and call on its airlines to avoid airspace there, after a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in the country, and a dissident journalist on board was arrested. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday said the bloc is “closing our airspace to

A weeks-long blockbuster antitrust trial between Apple and Epic Games culminated on Monday with the maker of the hit video game Fortnite calling Apple an “overlord” and the iPhone maker suggesting Epic is paving the way for a “scary” future for iOS customers. After spending days presenting reams of dueling economic analysis and documentary evidence,

Dozens of people took to Twitter on Monday to say they received emails with a racial slur from a Walmart account after someone created fake accounts with their addresses on the company’s site. An auto-generated “Welcome to Walmart” email, which was sent to the accounts after they were signed up for a Walmart shopping account,

Some international airlines have started to avoid Belarus air space after a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in the country, and a dissident journalist on board was arrested. Germany’s Lufthansa reversed course late on Monday after saying earlier in the day that it continued to fly over Belarus and that

The Fed is getting serious about the digital US dollar. Lael Brainard, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, laid out a case for a secure, central bank-backed digital currency that could create a more efficient payment system and expand financial services to Americans who have been underserved by traditional banks. “Today, the