In this article W Niraj Shah, chief executive officer of Wayfair, attends the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 10, 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Wayfair expects advancements in three-dimensional technology to improve the customer experience and bring more shoppers online, chipping away at
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In this article PG Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tide to Go is going to outer space. The Procter & Gamble brand is partnering with NASA to keep astronauts’ spacesuits fresh, even on Mars. Company and NASA scientists have created a fully degradable detergent that will clean clothes without wasting water. Over the
Asian countries have to tame the current waves of the coronavirus outbreak in order to get their economies ready for future rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve, an economist said Monday. Fed officials last week indicated that interest rate hikes could come as soon as 2023, shifting from earlier comments in March that said
In this article DAL Delta Air Lines planes are grounded during coronavirus. Delta Air Lines told staff on Monday that it expects to hire more than 1,000 pilots by next summer, the latest move by an airline to cater to a rebound in travel demand. Delta in April said it would kick off hiring by
In this article SHOP-CA AMZN Demdaco is an artisan gifts business that has been selling on Amazon for roughly the past five years. It won’t be holding any sales around Prime Day. Source: Demdaco PR Shoppers booting up a web browser and expecting to see big discounts for Amazon‘s annual Prime Day megasale on Monday
In this article AAL American Airlines planes at LaGuardia Airport Leslie Josephs | CNBC American Airlines said it canceled hundreds of flights this weekend due to staffing shortages, maintenance and other issues, challenges facing the carrier as travel demand surges toward pre-pandemic levels. About 6% of the airline’s schedule, or 180 flights, were canceled on
Procter & Gamble celebrates Pride with branded trikes and employees in the World Pride Parade on June 30, 2019 in New York City. Bryan Bedder | Getty Images More than ever, brands are signaling support for the LGBTQ+ community during Pride month. But experts say that true support has to come from more than a
In this article COST KR WMT AMZN TGT Customers shop in the grocery area at a Target Corp. store in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Electronics, toys and food? As Target kicks off a rival sales event to go head-to-head with Amazon Prime Day, the
Though the Acropolis has reopened, Greece is currently under lockdown-type restrictions with a nighttime curfew and store and restaurant closures. Matteo Colombo | Moment | Getty Images Major airlines are racing to add new trans-Atlantic service now that tourist-reliant countries like Croatia, Greece, Iceland and Italy have started allowing visitors from the U.S. and other
A 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L scales a rocky hill at Stellantis’ Chelsea Proving Grounds in Michigan. Michael Wayland / CNBC CHELSEA, Mich. – Jim Morrison smiles as he hears the piercing noise of rocks scraping the undercarriage of the Jeep he’s driving. “The most important thing for us at Jeep is to prove our
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen told CNBC on Friday there’s no single fix to resolve the shipping delays that have disrupted the global economy. That’s because one key reason they are happening — consumers buying more physical products during the Covid pandemic as they spent less on services — will not revert right away, Petersen said
In this article ARKK CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday that Ark Invest’s stock-moving influence appears to be waning — at least for now. Ark Invest’s family of exchange-traded funds were some of the best performers on Wall Street last year, but have not fared well in 2021 as investors rotated away from high-growth stocks and
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) speaks at the Coronavirus press briefing in Trenton, New Jersey. Michael Brochstein | Barcroft Media | Getty Images New Jersey met its goal to vaccinate more than 4.7 million people who live, work and study in the state about two weeks before its original target date of June 30,
RubberBall Productions | Brand X Pictures | Getty Images You can blame the Covid pandemic for yet another thing: a surge in auto thefts. Vehicle thefts in the United States jumped 9% last year from a year earlier to 873,000, the highest number in more than a decade, according to statistics from the National Insurance
The coronavirus pandemic could provide boost to newer modes of transportation in China, such as making autonomous driving more mainstream, a panel of industry leaders told CNBC. The Covid-19 outbreak accelerated the commercialization of autonomous aerial vehicles — or driverless drones — which were used to transport goods, medical supplies and even passengers to and
In this article LB Ming Xi, Grace Elizabeth, Cindy Bruna, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, and Alexina Graham walk the runway during the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at Pier 94 on November 8, 2018 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Ahead of Victoria’s Secret splitting away from Bath
Visoot Uthairam | Moment | Getty Images The Covid-19 delta variant originally discovered in India is now spreading around the world, becoming the dominant strain in some countries, such as the U.K., and likely to become so in others, like the U.S. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization said the variant had been detected in
Dutch airline KLM said it intends to reinstate almost all of its international routes this year as vaccine rollouts offer hopes of revival for the travel industry. KLM’s president and CEO Pieter Elbers told CNBC the carrier will also add a new route to Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, even as the capacity and frequency of
In this article DKS Lauren Hobart, president and member of the board of directors at Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc., speaks during the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Dick’s Sporting Goods switched into “preservation mode” in the early days
Aerial images of Kea island also known as Gia or Tzia, Zea, and, in antiquity, Keos, is a Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Kea is part of the Kea-Kythnos regional unit. NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty Images LONDON — The European Union decided on Wednesday to add the United States