Apple CEO Tim Cook has made a habit of aiming thinly veiled barbs at his rivals, and his latest maneuver seems ripped from the same playbook. With little fanfare, the company on Thursday announced plans to drop $1 billion on a new campus in Austin, Texas. It followed a stealthy selection process, which Cook fired…
THE RUMOURS of a leadership challenge to Theresa May were so long-standing that the event was something of an anti-climax. On the morning of December 12th the chairman of the Conservative Party’s 1922 committee of backbenchers, Sir Graham Brady, set off a day of feverish speculation by announcing he had received the 48 letters from…
LONDON — Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, survived the gravest threat yet to her embattled leadership on Wednesday, winning a party confidence vote and averting a leadership battle that threatened to plunge the country into prolonged crisis. But the victory celebration, if any, is likely to be short-lived. While Mrs. May survived to fight another…
Monika Bickert has one of the toughest jobs at Facebook: overseeing content moderation on the site, which involves crafting and enforcing Facebook’s user policies. Deciding what counts as hate speech on the platform isn’t easy, even for a former federal criminal prosecutor turned Facebook head of global policy. And it’s a job that, when it…
LONDON — Theresa May will face a leadership challenge this evening after 48 Tory MPs sent letters demanding a no-confidence vote. Conservative MP Graham Brady, the committee's chairman, said a ballot will be held between 6pm and 8pm tonight in the House of Commons. "The votes will be counted immediately afterwards and an announcement will…
IT WAS A chastened Emmanuel Macron who addressed the French nation on December 10th in an attempt to defuse the first real political crisis of his presidency. His brow creased, his tone contrite, the French president acknowledged his mistakes—“I know I have hurt some of you with my words”—and promised a costly package of fiscal…
The president “said he would think about it,” Mr. Schumer later told reporters. Despite the public meltdown, Mr. Trump appeared to be open to a way out of the impasse. He called Ms. Pelosi hours after the meeting, she said, and was still reviewing the options that the Democrats had presented. Mr. Trump even went…
Glossier, the hit e-commerce beauty brand that recently opened a flagship store in New York, announced Tuesday that it will make more than $100 million in revenue this year. Behind that success? Celebrities—but not in the way you’d think, Emily Weiss, Glossier’s founder and CEO, explained at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen conference Tuesday…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is testifying before Congress today amid increasing political scrutiny of big tech. Pichai, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee, is expected to be asked about Google's refusal to take US military contracts, its secretive efforts to make a censored search engine for China, and allegations of conservative bias, a favorite cause…
AT THE LAST minute, Theresa May changed course. On the afternoon of December 10th she told the House of Commons that she would pull her earlier plan to have a vote the next day on the Brexit deal that she has negotiated with the European Union. The prime minister acted after being advised by government…
