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Solar panels pictured at a tropical hotel resort. Marc Romanelli Businesses need to be singing from the same hymn sheet if they want to make meaningful progress in combatting the climate crisis, said the environmental director of one of Asia’s leading hotel groups, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels. Janice Lao, director of group corporate responsibility

The 2019 GMC Sierra AT4 Mack Hogan | CNBC DETROIT – General Motors is once again taking shots at its competitors’ pickup trucks in a new ad campaign for its GMC Sierra, highlighting the strength and toughness of its all-new carbon fiber pickup box. The Detroit automaker will air a new ad during the NFC

The 2020 Genesis G70 Mack Hogan | CNBC For decades, car companies from around the globe have been trying to replicate the BMW 3 Series. Mercedes, Jaguar, Audi, Lexus, Cadillac and other have all tried to match the iconic BMW’s well-rounded blend of comfort, excitement, interior quality and value. And for the longest time, no

Oscar Statue at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on February 23, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Rodin Eckenroth Four years after it introduced major changes to its voting and recruitment rules, the organization behind the Academy Awards still has a diversity problem. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2016

The National Oncology Particle Therapy Centre in Milan, Italy, where state-of-the-art particle therapy is a technique used to treat cancer, using hadrons, protons, proton therapy and carbon ion treatment to irradiate tumors. BSIP | Universal Images Group | Getty Images America’s war on cancer is about to get another tool in its arsenal. The country’s

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Fast-casual restaurant chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Sweetgreen have been stealing customers from full-service restaurant chains like Outback Steakhouse and IHOP. To fight back, some casual dining chains have been launching spinoff restaurants that copy that business model. Fast-casual restaurants are smaller in size, with less seating

A year ago, Boeing posted record revenues topping $100 billion with hopes of delivering a chart-topping number of airplanes in 2019, including hundreds of 737 Max jetliners. The news isn’t going to be so rosy on its fourth-quarter earnings call this year. Those bestselling planes were grounded worldwide in March after the second of two

View of the 20th Century Fox logo during the CinemaCon Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Special presentation at the Colosseum Caesars Palace on April 3, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada. VALERIE MACON Nearly a year after acquiring 21st Century Fox’s film and television assets, Disney is dropping the Fox name from its studios’ names. The

Cashiers ring up shoppers at a Walmart store in Burbank, California. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart is shuffling its executive team after the 2019 holiday season.  The company’s chief merchant Steve Bratspies is set to depart, according to an internal memo sent to employees Friday by Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner,

Airbus looks to have taken pilotless commercial jet flight one step closer after revealing that one of its test aircraft has taken off automatically. The European planemaker said that in tests conducted at Toulouse-Blagnac airport on December 18, an A350-1000 with two pilots sitting ready to take over, conducted eight takeoffs on auto-pilot. Accompanying the

Microsoft is on a mission to become carbon negative in the next decade and CNBC’s Jim Cramer thinks the ambitious plan has some teeth to it. “I think they can do it because, remember, they are a powerful force — maybe the most powerful, especially when it comes to data centers, of almost any company

At American Apparel’s peak, the fashion retailer was synonymous with made-in-LA hipster cool and provocative advertising. It was known for manufacturing its products in Los Angeles and paying workers a proper wage in an industry known for poor working conditions. It was also known for its founder, Dov Charney. Retail experts say in some ways,

From the veranda of the Ayana Komodo Resort, a long wooden pier snakes into the rugged sea off Waecicu Beach. At sunset, the sky explodes with fiery showers of color. It’s a perfect picture for the Instagram Age, with dozens of delicious, chocolate-chip shaped islands sprinkled across the horizon. The five-star resort opened in September

Moderna Therapeutics is working with Amazon‘s cloud service to deliver a new class of medicines that apply messenger RNA, which is the “software of life,” CEO Stephane Bancel said Wednesday. The biotech company is undergoing clinical trials with mRNA, a single-stranded molecule used to make protein in cells, to develop personalized cancer vaccines. In an

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) and Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy Daniels, speak to the media after a hearing related to Michael Cohen. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Bombastic lawyer Michael Avenatti on Wednesday lost a bid to dismiss criminal charges accusing him of trying to extort Nike for more than $20 million,

CNBC’s Jim Cramer attributed late-Tuesday’s market sell-off to China tariffs worries combined with an overbought market. The “Mad Money” host sat down with Medtronic’s outgoing CEO Omar Ishrak to get an update on robotic-assisted surgery systems. Later in the show, he broke down what climate change will impact investing on Wall Street. The rise comes

Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Source: Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Burger King’s largest U.S. franchisee is seeing sales of the Impossible Whopper and the Popeyes chicken sandwich level out as the initial buzz around the two menu items dies down. Average daily orders of the meatless Whopper at a Burger King location owned by Carrols Restaurant Group have

For the first time in decades, Boeing’s commercial airplane business lost orders over the course of an entire year, a stark example of just how much the 737 Max crisis has hurt the company. For all of 2019, Boeing lost orders for 87 commercial airplanes, meaning it had more cancellations than new purchases, the company

Shipping containers sit stacked at Qingdao Port after snow on February 14, 2019 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s exports and imports both rose in 2019, Reuters reported citing data from the General Administration of Customs released on Tuesday. In yuan terms, 2019 exports rose 5% from a year ago while

Alphabet is close to joining one of the most elusive clubs on Wall Street, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that he is skeptical of the progress. Shares in Alphabet, the tech giant that owns Google, rose almost $10 to an all-time closing high of $1,440.03, pulling within 1% of reaching $1 trillion of market