#HeForShe campaign goes corporate
Related: Try our Global Wage Calculator Gender inequality was a big theme in Davos this week during the World Economic Forum, a high-brow event that’s known for being overrun by…
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Alabama judge strikes down ban on gay marriage
Cari Searcy and Kimberly McKeand were married legally in California and have been together for 15 years. But the issue of their rights as a couple came about after Searcy’s…
Second record box office weekend for ‘American Sniper’
Movies make most of their money Fridays through Sundays. In its opening weekend, including the Martin Luther King Day holiday on Monday, “Sniper” made $105 million, setting a new record…
2015: The global economy’s ‘sink or swim’ moment
Related: See complete coverage from Davos But as the ECB money starts sloshing around the financial system and flowing into other parts of the world, concerns have been raised about…
Saudi King Abdullah Was A Reformer, But Not A Very Good One
After Saudi Arabia announced the death of King Abdullah early Friday, tributes pouring in from around the globe lauded the monarch as a progressive reformer — by the ultraconservative kingdom’s…
Senate Republicans Remove ‘Civil Rights And Human Rights’ From Subcommittee Name
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans revealed this week that they have eliminated the phrase “civil rights and human rights” from the title of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee charged with overseeing those…
Is this the next CEO of Starbucks?
Chatter about a successor to Schultz started to pick up once Troy Alstead, who Johnson is replacing, announced earlier this month that he was taking a leave of absence. Alstead…
Oil crash may kill the Texas housing boom
A number of large, Texas-based energy companies have recently announced job cuts, including 7,000 by Baker Hughes (BHI) and 9,000 by Schlumberger (SLB). Not all of those jobs cuts will…
Heard at Sundance: ‘Black lives matter’
“There is no reason to sing those songs” now, Simone said. “Nothing is happening. There is no civil rights movement.” Garbus said, “I think that’s one of the saddest moments…
SkyMall catalog lands in bankruptcy
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McDead? More lousy results from McDonald’s
“As we begin 2015, we are taking decisive action to regain momentum in sales, guest counts and market share,” said CEO Don Thompson said in a statement Friday. The company…
UPS delivers bad news. Stock tumbles 10%
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Uber restarts in New Delhi
Related: Uber’s global ambitions hit roadblocks If granted a license, Uber will be regulated under the same set of rules as taxi companies. Uber has long argued that it is…
AT&T texts can be faked to hack you
Third, the text messages don’t even have a consistent format. Sometimes they start in all capital letters: “AT&T FREE MSG.” At other times they’re lowercase: “AT&T Free Msg.” To test…
Russian elites warn West: Sanctions will never move Putin
“Russia and America might have no relationship after that,” said VTB’s Andrey Kostin on Friday. “If there is no SWIFT, there is no banking … relationship, it means that the…
Tim Cook on his way to the billionaire club
Despite his big payday, Cook was one of the lowest-paid executives at Apple (AAPL, Tech30) last year. New Apple Store chief Angela Ahrendts got a $73.3 million pay package, most…
16 firms worth billions even though they lose millions
Here are 15 other tech companies worth billions despite making no money: 1. Snapchat: At $10 billion, fast-growing Snapchat is one of the world’s most valuable private tech startups. Yet…
How CNN’s Global Wage Calculator was put together
The share of employees in total employment varies across the world. In most developed economies, employees represent about 85% of total employment. However, in developing countries this is much less….
Obamacare website reins in personal data sharing
Citing Healthcare.gov’s many technology glitches, they wrote: “This new information is extremely concerning, not only because it violates the privacy of millions of Americans, but because it may potentially compromise…
‘Records on top of records’ for ‘American Sniper’
It wasn’t a coincidence that the Academy Awards nominations were announced a day earlierCooper was nominated for best actor and the movie was nominated for best picture, giving “Sniper” even…
Madoff defends sons in email to NBC
Madoff once again asserted that his sons were never involved in his massive, long-running Ponzi scheme, a claim that he has made since his arrest in Dec. 11, 2008. He…
Finally, Jamie Dimon gets his cash bonus
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House Democrats push voting rights amendment
“We have the ironic situation, after the Heller [Supreme Court] decision, that Americans have a fundamental individual right to a gun, but not a fundamental individual right to vote,” Jackson…
House passes abortion measure
The bill barring federal taxpayer funds was approved in the last Congress. On Thursday it passed 242-179, with three Democrats joining virtually all House Republicans to support the bill. GOP…
House Passes Anti-Abortion Bill On Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade
On the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 242-179 to pass a bill that would codify…
$7.54 for a Big Mac? Only in Switzerland
On average, a Big Mac in Russia will set you back $1.36, or 89 rubles. Russia’s currency has plunged to record lows in recent months as falling oil prices combined…
Bill & Melinda Gates’ next target: banking
Literally stuffing cash in a mattress: People in rich countries can drive or walk to the bank, use digital services like PayPal and write checks that can be deposited, sometimes…
Tootsie Roll names 83-year old widow as new CEO
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Samsung-BlackBerry rumors still swirl
The anonymous source that spoke to The Financial Post told the paper that Watsa would likely endorse a deal above $15 a share. Related: BlackBerry ended 2014 on a sour…
Oil boomtown: ‘We could see 20,000 layoffs by June’
Arthaud, a North Dakota native who’s been active in the state’s oil industry since the late 1970s, said he isn’t particularly concerned for his company, which employees some 2,000 people…