EV maker Rivian prices IPO above range to raise over $11.9 billion
By Echo Wang and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Amazon-backed electric vehicle (EV) maker Rivian sold shares in its initial public of..
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Smartphone maker Xiaomi switches China playbook with eye toward EV showrooms
By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is revamping its playbook in its home country by openi..
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Volkswagen plans farewell to legendary Santana model in China
BEIJING (Reuters) – Volkswagen plans to stop making Santana cars in China, bidding farewell after over three decades to its firs..
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Cavai and Seedtag help Lay’s® to spread the word of its Iconic Restaurant Flavours with innovative, conversational campaign
London, UK, November 9th 2021: Cavai, the leading conversational advertising cloud, has launched an innovative campaign with PepsiCo’s..
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Greenpeace Germany sues Volkswagen over carbon emissions targets
BERLIN (Reuters) -Environmental activist Clara Mayer and the heads of Greenpeace Germany have sued Volkswagen in a German court, the N..
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How Netflix, JustEat and Uber raised the bar for the payments experience
By Gavin Waddell, Director of Strategic Accounts at Modulr We’re a society fed on instant access – where you can now get the sl..
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impact.com Names HubSpot Veteran Kim Walsh as Chief Growth Officer
London, UK, November 9, 2021 – Today, impact.com, the global leading partnership management platform, announced that..
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Henkel trims earnings outlook on raw material price spike
BERLIN (Reuters) – German consumer goods group Henkel trimmed its full-year earnings outlook on Monday, saying it could not full..
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Ant Group starts to differentiate consumer loan business Jiebei from bank loans
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Ant Group said on Monday that it is making efforts to “differentiate” part of its ..
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U.S. job growth regains momentum; worker shortages persist
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employment increased more than expected in October as the headwind from the surge ..
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Nintendo says chip shortage hitting hardware development
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd said on Friday that a global chip shortage which forced the firm to scale back e..
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Have you got the skills?
By Paul Lindsell, Managing Director at ThoughtSpark Agency, looks at the danger zones for PE firms and where the skill le..
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How automation gives FS leaders a competitive advantage
By Mike Heffner, Vice President – Solutions and Industry Go to Market, Appian The scale of change in the financial services indu..
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Post Pandemic Recruitment – Keeping an Empathetic Outlook
Many industries were compelled to suspend recruiting efforts at the onset of the epidemic, forcing them to place current staff on leav..
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NEW OZONE STUDY DEMONSTRATES CLEAR LINK BETWEEN QUALITY OF ATTENTION TO CONTENT AND QUALITY OF ATTENTION TO ACCOMPANYING ADS
Latest analysis by Lumen Research highlights significantly more attention to ads on premium publisher websites 3rd November 2021: The ..
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AirAsia interested in potential Airbus A321neo freighter
By Liz Lee KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s AirAsia Group Bhd is in talks with Airbus SE about its interest in the manu..
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Online fashion retailer Zalando’s profit falls as in-store sales rebound
BERLIN (Reuters) -German online fashion retailer Zalando reported a slump in quarterly profit on Wednesday as it offered discounts to ..
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Why poor customer communication is holding open banking back
By Eugene Danilkis, CEO at Mambu It’s easy to focus on the impressive growth of open banking. Industry players are being challen..
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What role does cyber security play in digital transformation?
By Richard Menear, CEO, Burning Tree The capabilities of modern technology have continued to progress, with widespread digitisation sw..
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Meta denies Kazakh claim of exclusive access to Facebook’s content reporting system
ALMATY (Reuters) – Facebook owner Meta Platforms on Tuesday denied a claim by the Kazakh government that it had been granted exc..
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Maersk triples quarterly profit despite lower container volumes
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk on Tuesday said record-high freight rates boosted quarterly earnings de..
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WeWork rival IWG quarterly revenue dips on prolonged pandemic impact
(Reuters) – Office rental firm IWG Plc reported a slight fall in third-quarter revenue on Tuesday as a resurgence in global COVI..
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Elon Musk goes viral on Chinese social media with ancient poem post
(Refiles to fix location in dateline) By Eduardo Baptista HONG KONG (Reuters) – The posting of an ancient Chinese poem by Tesla ..
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Jewellery maker Pandora lifts 2021 outlook
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Pandora, the world’s largest jewellery maker by production capacity, on Monday lifted its sales and..
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Oil drops on China fuel reserves release; OPEC+ meeting in view
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) -Oil prices dropped on Monday as China’s release of gasoline and diesel reserves eased concerns..
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Oil prices set for first weekly drop since August as supply concerns ease
By Roslan Khasawneh and Sonali Paul SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices edged up on Friday but were headed for their first weekly losses i..
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Why late payments are hurting your customer, as well as your business
By Lynne Darcey Quigley, Co-founder and CEO of Know-it (Global) Ltd & Darcey Quigley & Co discusses how late payments not only..
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PSD2: Merchants Must Regain Checkout Control Through Delegated Authentication
By Galit Michel, VP of Payments, Forter For the past ten years, globalisation and digitalisation have changed the way companies connec..
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Shift happens. But what are CFOs in financial services going to do about it?
By Tim Wakeford, Financials VP of Product Strategy, Workday Shift happens – and never more so than in the financial services sector wh..
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How Returns Abuse Affects Retailers
By Aaron Begner, EMEA GM at Forter Accompanying the significant growth in ecommerce over the past 12 months, is the need for retailers..
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Why start-ups fail: 5 barriers to business success and how to overcome them
By Mark Wright, BBC Apprentice Winner and Director of digital marketing agency, Climb Online In 2019, the Telegraph revealed that 20%..
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How Africa can satisfy consumer demands for sustainability
By Shaw Mabuto, Partner and ESG Officer, SPEAR Capital Over the past 18 months of the pandemic, a lot of people around the globe have..
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DS Smith says cardboard box volumes strong; flags higher costs
(Reuters) – Cardboard maker DS Smith said on Thursday its box volume growth has been strong in the first half of the year, suppo..
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Wagamama-owner Restaurant Group names former Cadbury executive Ken Hanna chairman
(Reuters) – Britain’s Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie & Benny’s and Wagamama, on Thursday named former Cadb..
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How Customer Services Has Changed During Covid
With around 109,000 people employed by call centres in the UK, the nation was thrown a curveball when the covid pandemic hit in early ..
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McDonald’s sales soar on higher U.S. prices, newer menu items
By Aishwarya Venugopal and Hilary Russ (Reuters) -Higher U.S. prices and celebrity-themed meals boosted quarterly comparable sales at ..
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Gas price surge pushes Europe’s ceramics industry to breaking point
By Stephen Jewkes, Isla Binnie and Elvira Pollina MILAN (Reuters) – Continental Europe’s $35 billion ceramics industry tho..
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