DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ CIOs in 2023 Want to Know: Who’s Got Talent?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

As the information technology talent gap continues into 2023, chief information officers are augmenting recruiting efforts with new models like upskilling, job sharing and rotations as well as raising salaries and offering perks to retain workers. Some also believe the shifting economy could make it easier to fill vacancies, although the short term talent market remains challenging. “It’s been a source of should we, not deprioritize, but re-sequence the work that we’re doing,” Kroger CIO Yael Cosset said of the talent shortage. Duke Energy is developing certification curricula and joining with software companies on education programs to help internal talent learn new skills, said CIO Bonnie Titone. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS What do you think CIOs can do to find and retain talent in 2023?

☆ Retailers Rethink In-Store Tech as Shoppers Return
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

Retailers during the pandemic poured investments into e-commerce, as many questioned whether shoppers would ever return in full force to physical stores. E-commerce is now 16.4% of all retail shopping, down from 18.8% at the height of the pandemic, according to the National Retail Federation. Photo: The Kroger Company“There is an opportunity to remove the friction,” said Mr. Cosset. “It’s never enough.”In addition to cost barriers, Mr. Cosset of Kroger said it is also wise to hold back on some investments based on what the consumer actually wants. But privacy concerns coupled with the cost of large-scale camera installation make it impractical, Mr. Cosset said.

But only one policymaker, Catherine Mann, wanted to match November's bigger 0.75 percentage point increase - the BoE's largest in more than 30 years - and two MPC members voted to keep rates on hold. Sterling weakened against the U.S. dollar after the BoE's decision, falling to around $1.23, and it also declined against the euro. "While the 50-basis-point increase in the Bank rate was as expected, the extent of the divisions across the committee is an eye-opener," Philip Shaw, an economist with Investec, said. On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve also slowed the pace of its rate hikes while pointing to more tightening in 2023. That 0.4 percentage point fall in the annual rate was the largest since July 2021.

☆ ‘Difficult decisions’: Britain announces higher taxes and spending cuts
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

London CNN Business —The United Kingdom has already entered a recession and is battling decades-high inflation, eroding standards of living for millions of people across the country. Britain’s painful planThe United Kingdom is in a recession that will last just over a year, the country’s budget watchdog said in a new forecast released Thursday. The United Kingdom is also increasing its windfall tax on oil and gas companies, while slapping a new levy on electricity generators. “We do have to take difficult decisions on public finances, so we’re going to grow public spending, but we are going to grow it more slowly than the growth in the economy,” Hunt said. The Bank of England has said the United Kingdom could be in a recession for two years.

☆ Investors Cool on Internet-of-Things Startups, a Tech Conduit for Retailers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

Slumping markets have investors pulling back from funding startups that make internet-connected devices for retailers, threatening to choke an innovation pipeline for emerging tools like smart shopping carts and inventory management robots. Total venture-capital funding for startups developing IoT technology specifically for retailers is on pace to drop 65.1% from 2021 to $188.2 million by the end of the year—one of the hardest hit subsectors in the IoT market, the firm said. Like most commercial software applications, connected devices in recent years have become an integral part of retailers’ day-to-day operations. He said the company would continue to invest in these and other tech tools that help customers, despite tougher economic conditions. IoT technology is critical for the food company, Mr. Basu said, because it also enables Goya to implement cybersecurity projects in its plants.

[1/5] Yael Gabay, The Plant Based Treaty global co-director with a team give away free vegan burgers during COP27 climate summit in Red Sea resort at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 14, 2022. "We have to move away from animal production." "It would result in more intensive livestock production that would require larger areas of land to produce the animal feed, putting pressure on forest land," Reisinger told Reuters. THE OTHER WHITE MEATCampaigners have even protested the food kiosks at the summit selling burgers and chicken - foods they say don't belong at a climate conference. "When you enter the conference, you have the scent of grilled animal meat in your nose.

☆ Elon Musk is threatening to 'thermonuclear name and shame' advertisers that press pause on Twitter. It's a dumb thing to do to your biggest customers.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

After advertisers paused spending, Musk went on the offensive, tweeting that advertisers were causing a "massive drop in revenue," He continued: "Extremely messed up! Per a Standard Media Index report, total advertising spending was down by 5% year-over-year in September. Other advertising giants like YouTube and Meta reported year-over-year declines in advertising revenue, with YouTube down by 2% and Meta down by 4%. Brand advertising relies highly on "brand safe" outlets where ads won't appear near objectionable content like violence, pornography, or hate speech. To replace the $40 million in lost monthly revenue, Twitter would need to sign up a little over 5 million Twitter Blue accounts paying $8 a month in its first month.

☆ French lawmaker accused of racist comment in Parliament
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

The president of the lower house of the French Parliament, Yaël Braun-Pivet, subsequently suspended the legislative session. Charities helping the migrants have appealed to the French government to take them in or help find a solution. Party spokesman Victor Chabert said de Fournas was referring to migrants at sea in his Africa remark and not, as some in French media wondered, to his fellow lawmaker. Reacting to the event, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said that “racism has no place in our democracy.”She said the chamber “will have to take sanctions” over de Fournas’ remark without elaborating what those might be. National Rally’s leader, Marine Le Pen, lost her second bid for the French presidency to Macron in April.

☆ Grégoire de Fournas: French parliamentary session halted by lawmaker's shout "Go back to Africa"
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Xiaofei Xu | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

A rightwing French lawmaker has caused uproar by shouting “Go back to Africa” during a Black lawmaker’s comments at a parliamentary session broadcast to the public on Thursday. Grégoire de Fournas, parliamentary representative from the National Rally (RN) party, interrupted Carlos Martens Bilongo, a representative from the far-left party France Unbowed (LFI) during a session of the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament. De Fournas interrupted, shouting “go back to Africa.”Chaos immediately ensued in the chamber, leading Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, to temporarily suspend the session. Bilongo and his party have described the shout as a racist personal attack, though de Fournas’ party has argued that the interjection was actually intended for the migrants under discussion. Mathilde Panot, leader of the far-left France Unbowed group at the National Assembly, has demanded that de Fournas face the toughest punishment for a French lawmaker — expulsion.

"The ongoing squeeze on household finances continues to weigh on growth, and likely to have caused the UK economy to enter a technical recession from the third quarter of this year," Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK, said. Manufacturing fell by 1.6% from July and more maintenance than unusual in the North Sea hit the mining and quarrying sector which includes oil and gas. "Many other consumer-facing services struggled, with retail, hairdressers and hotels all faring relatively poorly," ONS Chief Economist Grant Fitzner said. GDP in September is likely to be weakened by a one-off public holiday to mark the funeral of Queen Elizabeth. The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it expected British GDP to grow in 2023 but only by 0.3%.

☆ What Kroger, Walmart, Target learned from China's Alibaba about grocery's future
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Rebecca Fannin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Kroger has adopted an omnichannel strategy, integration of offline or in-store sales with online orders and logistics. They looked at the New Retail model born in China for complete integration of offline and online channels," he said. But the action was jumpstarted when Amazon bought Whole Foods Market in 2017 and began introducing several advanced technologies to streamline in-store shopping, a shift that also spread to large retailers Walmart and Target. Kroger digital sales gained by 8 percent in the second quarter of 2022, while in-store and online combined gained 5.8 percent from a year earlier. He pointed out that "half of Kroger's app stores are bringing in incremental business and half are cannibalizing in-store sales."

☆ French MPs want inquiry into alleged Russian party financing
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

PARIS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Members of the French National Assembly said on Saturday they had asked the president of the lower house of the country's parliament to set up an investigation committee to look into alleged Russian financing of political parties. The eight MPs, who belong to French President Emmanuel Macron's En Marche party, also noted that Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National party is still paying off a loan granted by Russian banks. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"These facts clearly suggest a Russian will to weigh in the French public debate ... they warrant the set-up of an investigation committee to establish if French political parties - and which ones - have benefited from Russian financing," the MPs wrote. However the official did not detail which countries the Russian influence efforts were believed to have targeted or provide specific evidence to lay out the claims of secret financing. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Tangi Salaun; Writing by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by David HolmesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Inside an Animal Sanctuary in Bolivia Where Tourists Can Help
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Photographs Yael Martínez | Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

An animal voyage is special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once. My favorite record of an animal voyage is a book that’s fluent in failure. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

An animal voyage is special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. The best trips, like Peter Matthiessen’s search for the snow leopard, find a way to make themselves permanent. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

☆ Lessons From a Lifetime of Animal Voyages
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Sam Anderson | Photographs Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

☆ Where the Wild Things Are
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( The New York Times Magazine | Photographs Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. “We’ve seen so much, maybe it’s better if there are some things that we don’t see.”Today, nearly 50 years later, if you are so inclined, you can go see a snow leopard at the zoo. The best trips, like Peter Matthiessen’s search for the snow leopard, find a way to make themselves permanent. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

☆ Leonardo DiCaprio's Regeneration VC backed on-site rental startup Tulu's $25 million Series A after seeing this 12-slide pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The US startup hopes people will rent items instead of buying them – shifting to a circular economy. Check out the 12-slide pitch deck it used to secure funding from Leonard DiCaprio's Regeneration VC. A startup banking on a consumer shift from ownership to rental has just topped up its Series A to $25 million, with new backing from Leonard DiCaprio-funded firm Regeneration VC. You need to clean, you need to cook, you need to host; what are the items that you need for that?" Tulu kiosks are in 19 cities in the US, UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Israel, the company said.

☆ The many faces of Scooter Braun
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-01 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +44 min

The former Yeezy associate said that West had offered Braun large percentages of Yeezy several times, which Braun always declined.) Singer told Insider that Braun "did not even see the final cut until the day before it came out." In 2012, Braun told The New Yorker that Geffen's advice to him was "Get out of the music business." Singer told Insider that Braun had only seen Jayne "once in his life, at a political event they both attended. And I couldn't fix it and I'm a fixer, and because I couldn't fix things I started to spiral," Braun told Shetty.

Persons: Scooter Braun, Kanye, West, Braun, Yeezy, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Marty Singer, Ben Rose, Taylor Swift, he's, I've, Braun you've, It's, Long, J Balvin, Psy, née Scott —, Ludacris, Eminem, Britney Spears, Matt Graham, Jason Salvador, He's, Bieber, Micah Smith, riffed, Harvey Levin, Perez Hilton, Lil Twist, Bieber's, Justin, Singer, Salvador, Selena Gomez, Gomez, Kevin Mazur, Swift, Selena, Scooter, Taylor, " Braun, kid's, Madison Beer, Etta James, Beer, Beer texted Braun, Todrick, Hall, Braun wasn't, Joseph Gordon, Levitt, hadn't, Pete Davidson, Grande, Davidson, Kris Jenner, —, didn't, J, Demi Lovato, Lovato, Critics, Rich Fury, Yael Cohen, Braun's, Marcus Aurelius, Maya Angelou, David Geffen, Jeff Bezos, playbook, Odysseus, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Matthew McNulty, Stephanie Simon, Jennifer Merlino, Simon, Brandon Creed, Bruno Mars, Troy Carter, Lady Gaga, Carter, Creed, George Floyd, Noam Galai, Moe Shalizi, missives, Scooter Braun playbook, Swift's, Taylor Swift's, Shamrock, Hybe, Justin Shin, Peter Comisar, Comisar, Laroi, Erika Jayne, Jayne, Yael Cohen Braun, Michael Kovac, Jay Shetty, Scooter Braun's, Shetty, Hoffman, I'd, I'm, Natalie Jarvey Organizations: Kanye, Ithaca Holdings, trailblazer, Spotify, South, YouTube, Emory University, segueing, eBay, DreamWorks, SB, TED, Hollywood's Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, TMZ, Wall Street, Billboard, US Immigration, Customs, NME, Twitter, Todrick Hall, MTV, Amazon's, Ithaca Holdings —, Ventures, Atlas, CBS, Manchester, Grande, Nickelodeon, Untitled Entertainment, Untitled, British GQ, Hollywood, New York, Financial Times, behemoth, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Carlyle Group, litigating, Housewives, Beverly Hills, Gentleman's Locations: China, Yeezy, West, South Korean, Atlanta, hoodies, Hollywood's, Greenwich , Connecticut, Colombia, Yorker, Ithaca, California, Grande, Braun, British, Hybe, Korea, Korean

☆ (video) Lista celor 100 cele mai frumoase femei din lume în 2020. Câștigătoarea este din Israel
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-03 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: 1 min

(video) Lista celor 100 cele mai frumoase femei din lume în 2020. Câștigătoarea este din IsraelLista criticilor independenți a desemnat topul celor 100 cele mai frumoase femei din lume. În listă se regăsesc actrițe, modele, cântărețe, dar și persoane publice din toate colțurile lumii. Anul acesta, locul întâi i-a fost oferit unei actrițe și modele din Israel. Yael Shelbia are 19 ani și în anii precedenți (2019 și 2018), a ocupat locul II în acest top.

Persons: Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, Sophie Marceau Locations: Israel, Yael, Moldova, România, Ucraina, China, Coreea, Japonia, Rusia

Search resuls for: "Yael"

21 mentions found