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A Sure-Fire Route to Gender Equality? Culture Is the Way, Survey Says

Although there’s no doubt that much progress has been made toward gender equality in the workplace, gender parity is still a long way off. And that’s especially true for one particular segment of the population of working women, the 18 percent who work in majority-male companies.

McDonald’s Announces Major Environmental Goals for 2030, Sending a Signal to the Restaurant Industry

The golden arches got a little greener this week. Or at least, they will by 2030.

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Trucking Acquisitions Put New Spotlight on Fleet Values

Trucking companies newly flush with cash are stepping up strategies to grow through acquisitions, but they’re finding new challenges in financial reporting along the road.

Alibaba Doubles Lazada Investment to $4Bn in Aggressive Southeast Asian Expansion

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it will invest an extra $2bn in Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada Group and tapped a top executive to run the business, as it takes on rivals such as tech titan Amazon in an aggressive expansion in the region.

Coca-Cola, U.S. State Dept. to Use Blockchain to Combat Forced Labor

Coca-Cola Co. and the U.S. State Department along with two other companies said last week they are launching a project using blockchain’s digital ledger technology to create a secure registry for workers that will help fight the use of forced labor worldwide.

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Tech's Next Big Wave: Big Data Meets Biology

It began in December, with CVS’s proposed $69bn buyout of insurer Aetna. In January, three more corporate behemoths — Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway — said they were forming a joint venture aimed at reducing health care costs and improving outcomes for their combined 1 million or so employees.

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'Not Welcome Here': Amazon Faces Growing Resistance to Its Second Home

What do you get for the man who has everything? When it comes to Jeff Bezos — the richest man in the world with around $130bn to his name — many U.S. cities competing to host Amazon’s second headquarters have an answer: billions of dollars in tax incentives.

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Blockchain Can Help in War on Fake Drugs, Report Says

A blockchain prototype tool has been developed with the potential to tackle the problem of counterfeit medicines.

Tablets, Lasers and Time to Market: How Levi Strauss Reinvented the Way It Makes Jeans

On a quiet street at the very edge of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood is a red-brick building bursting with blue. This 88-year-old structure, which carries no external signage of any kind, is what Levi Strauss & Co., the 165-year-old inventor of the blue jean, calls its Eureka Innovation Lab.

Big Health-Care Players Are Turning Their Partners Into Prey

Over 20 years, Brian Komoto built a thriving pharmacy in California’s Central Valley. Each day, his nurses would travel the vast agricultural region’s roads to help hepatitis C patients take a grueling regimen of shots.

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Lyft Links With Magna to Sell Driverless Systems to Any Auto Manufacturer

Lyft's driverless car strategy became much clearer last week. The ride-hailing service announced it will partner with major automobile industry supplier Magna to develop driverless vehicle systems and make them available to any automaker that wants to buy them.

Blockchain: The Key to a Seamless Supply Chain

With the ability to automatically and accurately share data across corporate boundaries, blockchain is more than just hype. It has the potential to be a true game-changer. On par with how email changed the way we communicate in business, blockchain is on the cusp of a tremendous breakthrough in how products and the data associated with them move across the supply chain. -Melanie Nuce, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, GS1 US

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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