By Sabrina Valle RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s executive management is considering resigning en masse after the Brazilian government decided to replace Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco, three people close to the…
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It’s been a long old journey for former Uber drivers James Farrar and Yasseen Aslam. But after a five year legal battle, the pair arrived at their chosen destination – a court ruling that drivers…
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The Conversation is a great news site. But, for the most part, people don’t read it like a newspaper. Instead, articles on specialised topics are shared with other people. One way is via Facebook. Yesterday,…
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© Reuters. An electric bus travels along a road in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow plans to nearly quadruple the number of electric buses it operates in coming years and replace all petrol or diesel-powered…
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If you want to help women achieve gender equality in the workplace, it’s time to give more support to men. That may sound counterintuitive since men have long been advantaged at work with higher salaries,…
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Facebook’s “news ban” in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining code, has been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on social networks in the past day or so. The social media platform has…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun is seen behind a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices slid as much as 2% in…
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As Congress prepares another injection of COVID-19 aid for businesses and individuals, there’s been debate about whether it’s necessary on top of the US$3.5 trillion spent so far. President Joe Biden had initially hoped to…
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In denying news content to its Australian users, Facebook is arguably overplaying its hand, behaving as a big company that thinks it can intimidate governments. If it keeps doing this, it will ultimately lose customers,…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels 2/2 By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union put reform of the World Trade Organization at the…
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