The China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) held an international dialogue between foreign diplomats and business leaders on Wednesday, aiming to further facilitate multilateral economic cooperation, as the country is vigorously promoting high-level opening-up amid its better-than-expected economic growth in the first quarter of the year.
Online marketplaces are stocked to the brim with low-quality e-books generated by LLMs or cruder generative methods. It's nothing new—hucksters have been slapping together garbage ebooks by plagiarizing wikipedia and whatnot since the dawn of the format. But now it happens in incredible, overwhelming volume. — Read the rest
Stefan Mappus is the new Managing Director of the EUTOP Group. Together with long-standing Managing Director Christian Schaufler, he will managethe fortunes of the Group from now on. Stefan Mappus
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. – In local business news, Central Point’s Erickson Helicopters announced Friday that it’s sold part of its operations. According to an Erickson press release, Helicopter Express has acquired Erickson’s aerial firefighting operations business and aircraft. Erickson’s other business operations will continue on their own. The two companies have been in business for […]
UnitedHealth Group is shutting down its Optum Virtual Care telehealth business. Employees were notified of the shutdown on Thursday (April 18), and some were told that their last day would be in July, Seeking Alpha reported Tuesday (April 24), citing a paywalled article by Endpoints News. Reached for comment by PYMNTS, a UnitedHealth Group spokesperson provided an emailed statement saying that the […]
(The Center Square) – The Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule Tuesday to ban noncompete contracts that prevent employees from joining rival companies in a move that immediately drew a legal challenge. U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark said the measure was illegal and would hurt businesses and workers. "The Federal Trade Commission's decision to ban employer noncompete agreements across the economy is not only unlawful but also a...
Pennsylvania insurance business owner convicted of evading over $100K in taxes highlights the resoluteness of the IRS in catching offenders.
Embattled youth-skewing Vice Media Group is spinning off its global production operations into a new entity called Vice Studios Group, which will be led by Jamie Hall in London and Danny Gabai in LA. V
A local businessman is taking on a new business endeavor: selling beef raised on his land in Trumbull County.
WASHINGTON—The nation's biggest business lobbying group and a national
Walmart-owned PhonePe has invested over Rs 800 crore in its subsidiaries during the last year to grow businesses ranging from insurance broking to wealth management and hyperlocal ecommerce, regulatory filings show. More than half of this, or Rs 426 crore, went to PhonePe Insurance Broking Services — a clear indication of the payment firm’s intention to build a large retail cover distribution business.PhonePe has infused more than Rs 1,000 crore as equity investment in its insurance unit since...
“It really is time, and this is the time to do it.”