Thyagarajan built Shriram Group into a conglomerate, proving lending to the poor can be safe and profitable. He offered lower interest rates than other options,… Read More »Tycoon who gave away $750 million sees profit in loans to poor
Billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate is looking to raise over $1 billion through loan deals with Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered. The move comes six… Read More »Adani returns to loan market as investor confidence improves
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CHICAGO — Illinois is the first state in the U.S. to ensure child social media influencers are compensated for their work, according to Sen. David… Read More »Starting next year, child influencers can sue if earnings aren’t set aside, says new Illinois law
OMAHA, Neb. — Profits rebounded at Warren Buffett’s conglomerate along with the value of its $353 billion stock portfolio in the second quarter to hit… Read More »Profits at Warren Buffett’s firm reach $36B as stocks surge and its insurance holdings perform well
Copper Beech Farm, with 50 acres of waterfront property in the tony New York suburb of Greenwich, has sold for just under $139 million This… Read More »Home on Long Island Sound in Greenwich, Connecticut sells for almost $139 million
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is keeping its promise to block news content in Canada on its platforms in response to a new law… Read More »Facebook owner Meta carries out threat to block news in Canada. Google plans to do the same
BALTIMORE — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants… Read More »Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches a deal with a biotech company that used her cells without consent
WASHINGTON — X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has sued a group of researchers — alleging their work highlighting an increase in… Read More »X marks the lawsuit: Elon Musk’s social media company sues nonprofit highlighting site’s hate speech
BUDAPEST, Hungary — In a snug, wood-paneled Jewish bookstore in Hungary’s capital, Eva Redai carefully climbed the rungs of a ladder to arrange titles on… Read More »To wrap, or not to wrap? Hungarian bookstores face fines over closed packaging for LGBTQ+ books