Plant-based meat substitutes have been recently gaining a lot in popularity since people are focusing on the environmental hazards of industrial ranching. The Vegan burger maker Beyond Meat Inc. has attracted among its investors personalities like Microsoft founder Bill Gates and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The California-based company creates substitutes for meat by using ingredients such […]
SpaceX, the company developing the Crew Dragon capsule, has acknowledged that an anomaly occurred while tests were being made on the ground on 20 April. However, eye witnesses say that huge clouds of smoke were seen rising from the test site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It seems that there were no injuries
The car manufacturing company announced last Friday that they plan to make some future changes to their board of directors, saying that the changes will allow the board to “operate more nimbly and efficiently.” Out of the four directors that will be stepping down there’s Brad Buss, a director since 2009, and Linda Johnson Rice,
Honestbee is best known for its grocery app and has now opened a cashless store called Habitat offering a mix on online and offline shopping, becoming one of Alibaba’s biggest competitors. “We use phones to track, we use tech to make shopping easier, we use as much data as possible to make inventory smarter. To
Supermarket The Clean Kilo is Birmingham’s first plastic-free, zero-waste supermarket belonging to Tom Pell and Jeanette Wong who initially got the idea in early 2017. They had only known each other for about six months and had no working knowledge of high-street food retail. Wong had previously worked as a menswear designer in Birmingham and
Holland & Barrett is being accused of consistently delaying payments to its suppliers by the small business commissioner, Paul Uppal. He also pointed to data showing that the company takes an average of 68 says to pay its invoices while 60% of them are not paid within the agreed terms. Moreover, he criticized Holland &
Walmart announced that it wants to deploy thousands of more robots to its stores and it expects to have autonomous floor scrubbers in 1,860 of its more than 4,700 US stores by next year. The stores will also have robots that scan shelf inventory at 350 stores, as well as robots that automatically scan boxes
It seems that the software enhancement necessary to be made to the 737 Max aircraft that Boeing had expected to roll out to airlines this month will take longer than expected. The software fix the company needs to address is an element from the plane’s original design that investigator believe led to two recent crashes
Banks and other financial services companies in Britain have announced they are planning to move £1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) into the EU according to consultancy EY. Many banks have already set up new offices in Germany, France, Ireland and other EU countries in order to protect their regional business after Brexit is implemented. Financial companies
Connie Chan is now a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and she leads the company’s Asia network. Before her, the company stood by a specific rule – in order to become a general partner you had to be founder or CEO of a major tech company. Chan joined the firm back in 2011 as an
