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Starbucks' incoming CEO Brian Niccol will have more power than his predecessor. Niccol, who is leaving Chipotle Mexican Grill, will become CEO and chairman the moment he joins Starbucks on September 9. By contrast, Laxman Narasimhan spent more than five months as the CEO-in-training under company patriarch Howard Schultz and he never took on the board chairman position. Only after an intense period of shadowing Schultz did he gain the ability to set the company's strategy. The vastly different handovers underscore the two executives' contrasting resumes-Narasimhan had no restaurant experience while Niccol has spent 20 years as a leader at Chipotle and Yum! Brands.

X’s self-proclaimed role as a guarantor of free speech means that we should know which outside entities and which foreign governments may be able to exert influence on the company. After Elon Musk formally rebranded Twitter as X in 2023, the names of the shareholders who helped finance the enormous $44 billion acquisition have been made public more than a year later by a federal court order. These names include music mogul Sean Diddy Combs and the founder and former CEO of the social media platform, Jack Dorsey. Also Read :Musk's own AI system creates video of him and Trump committing armed robbery

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Ola Electric has issued a legal notice to MapmyIndia but has yet to receive any response. "Empty vessels make more noise," Aggarwal remarked, emphasizing that Ola Electric is not even involved in the mapping business.

Reacher season 3 is on the way. The third season will be released in 2025. DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD versions of 'Reacher' season 2 will be released on September 17 in 2024. 'Reacher' cast includes Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Robert Patrick, Serinda Swan. One can watch both seasons of 'Reacher' on Prime Video, as per a report on Collider. Warner Bros has unveiled the trailer for the highly anticipated anime feature film 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim', set to premiere on December 13, 2024.

Amazon, Jeff Bezos bought a Gulfstream G700, a high-end business jet built by Gulfstream Aerospace that is regarded as one of the biggest and most sophisticated private aircraft in the world, last month. He owns an $80 million private jet. According to reports, Bezos purchased a Gulfstream G700, which is regarded as the world's most sophisticated luxury business jet. Twenty panoramic windows and a whisper-quiet cabin with 100% fresh, plasma-ionized air replenished every two to three minutes are two more features of the G700. The G700 blasted off from Ibiza last Sunday. Also Read: Reacher season 2 DVD, Blu-ray, 4K release date: What we know so far

Starbucks has devoted itself to promoting its environmentally conscious credentials with considerable time and resources, and anyone who has ever had the misfortune of spending a few minutes browsing the company's website could reasonably assume they had unintentionally ended up on the Greenpeace homepage. The CEO of Starbucks mocks the green logo used by the company.

Reliance-owned Ajio on Friday announced the launch of British fashion brand ASOS on the e-tailor platform. This collaboration has marked ASOS's debut in the Indian online retail market with over 3000 options across its curated portfolio of subsidiaries that include ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS Luxe and Miss Selfridge. With this tie-up, Ajio has strengthened its repertoire of top exclusive international brands, the company said in a press release. “Indians are exposed to global fashion trends and pop culture now more than ever. With a growing appetite for international brands, ASOS is perfectly poised to tap into the Indian market with India’s favourite online fashion destination AJIO, catering to young Indian shoppers looking for the latest in global fashion,” Ajio’s CEO Vineeth Nair said.

potato and rice have started falling. Having remained firm for the last three months, prices of potatoes have fallen by 8 per cent in the last 20 days as the cold storages in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are overloaded with potatoes which need to be used up before November. Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the third week of July had stopped inter-state movement of potatoes and didn't even allow truck movement carrying potatoes from Uttar Pradesh to the north-eastern states resulting in oversupply and prices falling. Prices of potatoes which stood at Rs 36 a kg 20 days ago are now commanding a price of Rs 34 a kg. Even though Mamata Banerjee on last Tuesday allowed inter-state trade of potatoes for the next seven days on the consideration that there will be no shortage of the tuber for the state and the prices will not rise, the potato trade in Uttar Pradesh said that the sudden decision to stop movement of potatoes has disrupted the supply chain.

IMF's approval. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb and his team had a virtual meeting with Dr Adnan Chilwan, Group CEO of Dubai Islamic Bank, on Thursday, the Dawn newspaper reported on Friday. On Wednesday, a similar interaction was held with Mashreq Bank President and Group CEO Ahmed Abdelaal. Both meetings had been arranged to «discuss the economic outlook and explore investment opportunities in Pakistan». For the current fiscal year, Pakistan has pitched about USD 20 billion in foreign borrowing in the budget, besides another USD 3 billion rollover from the UAE that was reported separately for the balance of payments. With this much borrowing, Pakistan's reserves are estimated to grow to about USD 19-20 billion by the end of the current fiscal year.

Bhavish Aggarwal has rejected claims of copying MapmyIndia, saying the map company was attempting to ride on Ola Electric's listing coattails. The Chairman and Managing Director of Ola brand owner ANI Technologies told PTI that the company has sent legal notice to MapmyIndia but hasn't received any reply from them. «Empty vessels make more sound. These people woke up suddenly someday. Ola Electric is not even in the maps business. In the run-up to Ola electric IPO they just wanted to ride on its coattails. We have also given them legal notice, their reply has not come till date,» Aggarwal said. Ola Electric got listed on the bourses on August 9. The company raised Rs 5,500 crore from its initial public offering.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium later in the day. On Thursday, three Fed officials hinted at a potential rate cut in September, expressing support for a «slow and methodical» approach to policy changes. Powell’s speech, scheduled for 7:30 PM IST, is highly anticipated by traders looking for positive signals regarding interest rate cuts.

Nestle CEO Mark Schneider was ousted in a sudden move by the world's biggest foodmaker as a result of the group's underperformance, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The company announced Schneider's departure late on Thursday following a board meeting and appointed veteran Laurent Freixe as its new CEO. That put an end to a near eight-year tenure at the helm by the 58-year-old German, the first company outsider to lead Nestle in nearly a century. Nestle declined to give further details beyond comments made on an investor call on Friday, where Chairman Paul Bulcke said the board together with Schneider had assessed the current environment and together had agreed to make the change.

Intel's director Lip-Bu Tan, a semiconductor industry veteran brought in two years ago to help with the chipmaker's comeback effort, has stepped down from its board, the chipmaker disclosed in a filing on Thursday. Tan informed the company on Monday that he was resigning from the board effective immediately. The news of Tan's departure comes at a challenging time for Intel, which recently forecast third-quarter revenue below market estimates and announced plans to cut more than 15% of its workforce, approximately 17,500 employees, and suspend its dividend starting in the fourth quarter.

Nvidia and Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity AI said on Thursday that it plans to introduce advertising on its artificial intelligence-powered search platform by the fourth quarter. Last month, the AI startup launched a program for publishers with an initial batch of partners, including TIME, Der Spiegel, and Fortune, in which it plans to share revenue from interactions where a publisher's content is referenced. Since ChatGPT first launched in November 2022, major search engines have been trying to integrate AI into web search, and analysts have viewed AI-assisted search as a threat to Google's dominant position in the industry ever since the AI boom started.

Baidu said its leading position in AI in China means it is well positioned to navigate an increasingly competitive market despite reporting a decline in quarterly revenue. The comment came amid an AI price war in China, where companies have slashed prices of large language models used to power generative AI products. «Competition will be fierce over the next 2 to 3 years.» Baidu CEO Robin Li said in an earnings call following the company's Q2 release.

Cruise’s trouble-ridden robotaxis are on the road to joining Uber’s ride-hailing service next year as part of a multiyear partnership bringing together two companies that once appeared poised to compete for passengers

Entertainment giant Paramount Global is extending by 15 days a period where it’s allowed to assess alternative offers to its merger agreement with Skydance so that it can review a proposal from Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Paramount said late Wednesday that the...

The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana

Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) franchises are expecting double-digit growth in sponsorship revenue from season 11 of the tournament that tentatively kicks off in October. The franchises cite PKL's consistent audience growth and low entry barrier in terms of cost compared to the Indian Premier League as evidence of its effectiveness in brand building. PKL's TV reach has jumped to 245 million in season 10, up from 222 million in season 9 and 189 million in season 8. JSW Group-owned Haryana Steelers' CEO Divyanshi Singh said the franchise is anticipating 12-15% growth in sponsorship revenue in season 11 compared with season 10.

The sinking of a luxury yacht owned by British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch off the coast of Sicily earlier this week has unfolded into a greater tragedy.