FL: AIRLINE EXEC ON DUCT-TAPING UNRULY PASSENGER
Frontier Airlines employees duct-tape an unruly passenger to a chair after he broke out into violence during a flight.
Continue ReadingFrontier Airlines employees duct-tape an unruly passenger to a chair after he broke out into violence during a flight.
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Chris Isidore, CNN Business United Airlines will join the growing list of companies that are requiring employees get vaccinated against Covid-19, the first major US airline to implement such a mandate. A United executive said it was not considering a similar rule for passengers, and that any such requirement would be
Continue ReadingBy Charles Riley and Hanna Ziady, CNN Business It’s been roughly 18 months since the coronavirus pandemic started wreaking havoc on the US economy. The labor market is a long way from making a complete recovery. One big problem: Millions of open jobs are going unfilled, despite high levels of unemployment. Companies had 9.2 million
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Earlier this year, videos of Tom Cruise started popping up on TikTok of the actor doing some surprisingly un-Tom-Cruise-like stuff: goofing around in an upscale men’s clothing store; showing off a coin trick; growling playfully during a short rendition of Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash Into Me.” In one video, he
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Earlier this year, videos of Tom Cruise started popping up on TikTok of the actor doing some surprisingly un-Tom-Cruise-like stuff: goofing around in an upscale men’s clothing store; showing off a coin trick; growling playfully during a short rendition of Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash Into Me.” In one video, he
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The US economy added 943,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate fell to 5.4% — a new low of the pandemic era — the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. It was the biggest job gain since August last year, when more than 1 million positions were added back,
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN Business India’s top court has handed Amazon a major victory in its fight with Reliance Industries for the country’s growing e-commerce market. On Friday, the Supreme Court of India ruled in favor of the American company’s efforts to stop its rival Reliance from buying Future Retail, a local, cash-strapped retailer. The
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business An e-commerce company has just pulled off Indonesia’s biggest initial public offering ever. It’s the latest sign that Southeast Asia’s startup community is taking off. Jakarta-based Bukalapak began trading on the Indonesian Stock Exchange on Friday after raising about $1.5 billion. That’s the largest on record for that exchange, according
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business Chinese internet and media regulators are pledging to come down hard on “unhealthy” online fan groups as supporters of pop star Kris Wu took to social media to vehemently defend him against allegations of rape. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection — the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s disciplinary watchdog —
Continue ReadingBy Brian Stelter, CNN Business A newspaper’s front page is designed to get your attention — sometimes more so than usual. USA Today’s weekend edition, publishing Friday, is unusual. Its banner front page headline says, “We are failing one another.” The newspaper describes “America’s fourth Covid-19 surge,” noting this “didn’t have to happen,” since vaccinations
Continue ReadingReporters Leada Gore in Alabama, Keisha Rowe in Mississippi, and Emily Woodruff in Louisiana talk about covering the pandemic in some of America’s least-vaccinated areas. “I could have a story that shows you we added a thousand cases and I will receive 20 e-mails saying that the numbers are made up,” Gore says. Rowe says the resistance “makes me a little bit hungrier to get the information out there even more.”
Continue ReadingIntel revealed 3DAT — a breakthrough 3D athlete tracking software — at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Selina Wang reports.
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple on Thursday said it will begin testing a new system to automatically match photos on iPhones and uploaded iCloud accounts to a database of child sexual abuse images and alert authorities as needed. The new service will turn photos on devices into an unreadable set of hashes —
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Virgin Galactic says it’s re-opening ticket sales for the first time in years, giving anyone who can afford it the chance to reserve a seat on the company’s rocket-powered suborbital space plane for $450,000, a significant markup over what tickets were previously sold for. The news comes after Virgin Galactic
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business President Joe Biden announced an agreement Thursday that aims to push the US auto industry to sell more electric vehicles. The goals include a “shared aspiration” that 40% to 50% of vehicles sold in the US will be electric, plug-in hybrids or hydrogen-powered. This will be a challenge, some experts
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business The pandemic was difficult for casual dining brands like Applebee’s, which saw sales plummet when it closed its dining rooms last year. But now, Applebee’s is doing better than it has in years. One reason? Attention from the song “Fancy Like” by Walker Hayes. “This song lyrically is all about
Continue ReadingAs the Delta variant surges around the country, Corporate America is taking a stand on vaccinations. Johnny Taylor, president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, explains the conditions employees will face if they aren’t vaccinated against Covid-19.
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Amazon on Thursday pushed back its office return date until early next year amid a surge in Covid-19 cases from the Delta variant, making it one of the most significant delays yet in the tech industry. The online retail giant’s corporate workers in multiple countries, including the United States, were
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business More employers are mandating Covid-19 vaccines for their workers as the Delta variant surges across the United States. But one step in the process could slow down the rollout of such requirements: negotiations with labor unions representing employees. Talks between employers and labor leaders are taking place in a variety
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business The planned grand reopening of offices across America is in serious doubt because of the Delta variant. In the past 24 hours, a slew of major companies have told employees they will no longer be expected back at their desks in September. Notably, that list includes BlackRock, Wells Fargo and
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