US-based TriMas has acquired Aarts Packaging, a Netherlands-based provider of luxury packaging solutions for beauty and lifestyle brands, as well as for customers in the food and life sciences end markets. Specialising in high-volume automated injection moulding for beauty and…
Vertebrates can no longer be used in tests conducted for the development and quality control of fragrances, cosmetic and personal care products in Brazil. The ban, which has been debated for several years in the federal parliament, was eventually enforced…
Sundar Pichai is facing what may likely be Google’s biggest competitive challenge in the 25 years since it was founded. His company’s dominance in ad-rich search engine queries is under acute threat by Microsoft’s A.I.-enabled Bing just as heavy investments…
The pandemic has given life to a new generation of workers who have “no intention” of working in an office, says Kevin O’Leary, billionaire investor and Shark Tank star. “They never have, they never will. People keep saying, ‘Oh, they’re…
Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has laid off hundreds of employees as he desperately tries to cut costs. On Monday evening, one such employee, Haraldur Thorleifsson, a prominent designer at the company, took to Twitter to complain that the…
The U.S. housing market’s move from boom mode to correction mode was so abrupt last year that economists at Zillow repeatedly saw themselves issuing sharp downward revisions for their 12-month home price outlook. In March, Zillow had been expecting home…
What’s better than one passport? Twoooo passports (read to the tune of the viral TikTok video). As remote work opened up the doors for workcations and alternative lifestyles, location mobility has become all the rage for people looking to get…
As companies tried to get workers back to in-person work last year, Salesforce and its CEO Marc Benioff criticized the idea of office mandates. Benioff argued in June that “office mandates are never going to work.” And in September, the…
Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said…
Best Buy’s Geek Squad has been handed a task that’s a lot more sensitive that setting up your living room’s surround-sound system. The electronics retailer has partnered with Atrium Health to set up virtual hospital rooms in people’s homes. That…