Jeff Bezos has a message for budding entrepreneurs: be ready to take big risks and fail. Bezos delivered that message at Amazon's re:Mars conference on Thursday in Las Vegas, after he was asked what advice he would give to anyone looking to start their own business. "Take risk. You have to be willing to take…
WHEN DONALD TRUMP arrived in the Oval Office he promised to restore America’s might. His method has turned out to be a wholesale weaponisation of economic tools. The world can now see the awesome force that a superpower can project when it is unconstrained by rules or allies. On May 30th the president threatened crippling…
WASHINGTON — Mexico and the United States have made significant progress in discussions that could forestall President Trump from following through on his threat of imposing tariffs on all Mexican imports, senior officials from both countries said Thursday. Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly demanded that Mexico end all illegal immigration into the United States, has…
Since 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission has been sending warning signals to the cryptocurrency industry over so-called “initial coin offerings” (ICOs), which entail selling digital tokens to the public that can—in theory at least—one day be used to participate in an online service. Those warnings have so far come in form of public statements…
From Donald Trump to Elizabeth Warren, it's not difficult to find people who think Google has become too powerful. But when it comes to what to do about Google's power, there's no easy answer. The internet giant controls more than 37% of the online ad market, more than 92% of the search market, it owns…
WHAT DO YOU buy the Asian defence minister who has everything? How about a “beautiful” photo-book of North Korean ships illegally transferring oil at sea? Patrick Shanahan, America’s acting defence secretary, presented the collection of grainy aerial shots to his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Fenghe, at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual gathering of military bigwigs…
More than 100,000 of those arrested in May were unaccompanied children or migrants traveling as a family when they arrived at the border, officials said. In March 2017, shortly after Mr. Trump took office, that number was about 2,000, according to government records. “We are at a full blown emergency,” said John Sanders, the acting…
He taunts, trolls and trash talks his rivals—both on the mic and on the basketball court. While Drake, officially known as the Raptors Global Ambassador since 2013, will likely appear in the Bay Area to root for his team they take on the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 of the NBA Finals tonight, he…
An activist Facebook investor has opened up a new front on the war on Mark Zuckerberg, calling for an independent investigation into the company's governance structure. The demand was made by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who controls around $785 million of Facebook stock, and it follows independent shareholders voting overwhelmingly for change at…
FOUR GENERATIONS of one family run Riverdock Restaurant in Hardin, a small town on a spit of wooded land between the swollen Illinois and Mississippi rivers. The matriarch is Sara Heffington, in red T-shirt and jeans. She says the Illinois river usually passes 400 feet (120 metres) from the long, ground-floor room where they serve…
