Sheryl Sandberg‚ formerly Meta’s chief operating officer‚ announced Wednesday that she’ll be stepping down from the company’s board of directors in May. Sandberg stepped down as the COO of Meta‚ formerly Facebook‚ in June 2022. While she had remained on the company’s board of directors‚ her departure from the C-suite marked a pivotal shift in the company’s leadership. When she steps down from Meta’s board in May‚ Sandberg will become an advisor to the company‚ she said in...

A new study using existing trends from over the past 20 years predicted population decline in thousands of American cities over the next 80 years. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago used population projections to find that‚ by the year 2100‚ almost half of nearly 30‚000 cities in the US will experience a population decline. The population decline would represent 12%–23% of the population of these cities‚ the study states. The aftermath of such a decline...

Global business leaders may be in the snowy hills of Switzerland‚ but their conversations keep returning to Washington‚ D.C. The topic of Donald Trump has dominated dinners and parties at Davos‚ with many in attendance at the World Economic Forum mulling the former president’s potential return to the White House after his resounding Iowa caucus victory. Several business executives have noted a theme to their private discussions during the summit: U.S. industry leaders seem...

The fiercest Republican campaign isn’t taking place between the presidential hopefuls in Iowa or New Hampshire this month‚ but rather in the backstage fight over who would be Donald Trump’s running mate. Or more to the point: who will not be Trump’s pick. As Nikki Haley emerges as the former president’s most formidable opponent in the coming states‚ and toughens her rhetoric‚ her Trumpworld foes are intensifying their own efforts to block her from the consolation prize of the vice...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that Israel cannot defeat Hamas — that there is no “military solution‚” and that Israel will have to accept a Palestinian state. Netanyahu reportedly rejected the idea. NBC News reported Wednesday that Blinken‚ and Biden‚ are therefore trying to work around Netanyahu — the democratically-elected leader of Israel — in a departure from the Biden administration’s posture as the supposed...

Spotify has a plum position in the audio-streaming business. It’s the leading platform‚ with some 600 million users. Its 30% market share is twice that of its next-largest competitor. Spotify is adding millions of new subscribers a month‚ and few of its users cancel.  Most companies can only dream of that kind of industry dominance. Yet not even the leading audio-streaming company has consistently made money off audio streaming.  While customers love the convenience of streaming...

If you’re old enough to remember watching the hit kid’s show Animaniacs‚ you probably remember Napster‚ too. The peer-to-peer file-sharing site‚ which made it easy to download music for free in an era before Spotify and Apple Music‚ took college campuses by storm in the late 1990s. This did not escape the notice of the record companies‚ and in 2001‚ a federal court ruled that Napster was liable for copyright infringement. The content producers fought back...

GOP rivals former President Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley are tied in New Hampshire‚ new polling shows‚ as the primary race heads into the Granite State.  The survey from American Research Group Inc.‚ released Tuesday‚ puts Trump and Haley at 40 percent each among the state’s likely Republican primary voters. Back in December‚ Trump was at 33 percent‚ while Haley scored 29 percent. Both candidates had gained support by the start of...

Donald Trump continues to dominate the race for the Republican presidential nomination‚ enjoying a 16-point lead in New Hampshire days before it becomes the second state to vote‚ according to a major new poll. Suffolk University‚ the Boston Globe and NBC found the former president at 50% support in New Hampshire‚ to 34% for the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. Ron DeSantis‚ the hard-right governor of Florida‚ who edged out Haley for second in Iowa this...

Former President Donald Trump leads former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley by double digits in the New Hampshire primary‚ according to a poll released Wednesday‚ which also shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with only single-digit support in the Granite State.  The Saint Anselm College poll was conducted after Trump’s landslide victory in Monday’s Iowa caucuses and factors in the recent departure of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and biotech entrepreneur Vivek...