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The annual Fortune 500 list made headlines this month as a marker of progress in corporate diversity, since for the first time it included at least two Black women chief executives: TIAA (TRGIX) CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) CEO Rosalind Brewer. But headlines that trumpet the unique success of Black women executives may not deliver the message of progress they intend, says former Xerox (XRX) CEO Ursula Burns, who became the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune… Source link

The coronavirus pandemic driven boom for new homes and the aggressive remodeling of existing ones by homeowners during quarantine continues to put serious upward pressure on prices for everything from plywood to copper pipes at the major home improvement retailers.  “Similar to what we reported in our previous three quarters, the growth in our comp average ticket was driven by elevated project demand, customers trading up to new and innovative products and continued inflation in many product… Source link

Google has been playing it safe with the Pixel line for the past couple of generations or so, but it looks like this year it’s finally ready to shake things up in the mobile world again. A new leak purports to show us renders depicting the upcoming Pixel models. Yes, models plural, and that’s the first change compared to last year when the ‘flagship’ line consisted of only one phone, the Pixel 5. Not so this time around: we’re getting both a Pixel 6 and a Pixel 6 Pro. And… just look at… Source link

Handlebars tight in snaking rows of colour, thousands of abandoned bicycles line an open field outside the city of Shenyang, relics of a shared bike mania that has overwhelmed China’s cities. The turquoise, blue and yellow bicycles, arranged in long lines, some piled on top of each other, bear the logos of the companies that dominate China’s bike-sharing sector — Hellobike, Didi and Meituan. Low cost-shared bikes, which users can unlock using apps and park virtually anywhere, burst onto… Source link

The Guardian Democrats lost Texas because of Covid and Republican voter drive, report finds A party postmortem says more outreach to non-voters is needed after a predicted blue wave failed to materialise in 2020 A supporter of the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden prepares for a Ridin’ With Biden event in October 2020, in Plano, Texas. Photograph: LM Otero/AP Sign up for the Guardian’s First Thing newsletter Get-out-the-vote efforts hampered by the coronavirus pandemic and an… Source link

A internet user who was bored at home and looking up his parent’s house on Google Earth was “overwhelmed” to see his late father standing in the driveway waiting for his mum just up the road. Twitter user TeacherUfo shared images of the scene on the social media platform where they went viral and received comments from other people who experienced similar sightings on Google Earth. The Japanese man said he was bored at home one night and decided to find his parents’ house on the Google… Source link

A road rage cyclist who appeared to deliberately stick out his knee to knock over a child that was blocking his way is being investigated by police. The footage was shot by the child’s dad Patrick Mpasa on Christmas Day at a nature Park in Belgium. Mr Mpasa was recording his family walking through the winter landscape with snow on the ground and on the branches of nearby trees when the incident occurred. His young daughter can be seen wrapped up in pink winter clothing with a scarf and gloves… Source link

Bank earnings could reveal ugly-looking loan portfolios for the second quarter, but the industry hopes to champion its investment banking and cost-cutting efforts to squeeze out earnings. Earnings season will kick off on Tuesday as JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Citigroup (C), and Wells Fargo (WFC) report earnings before the market bell, covering the large U.S. banks’ performances through the three-month period ended June 30.  “The upcoming [second quarter] earnings will be confusing, sloppy, and… Source link