Andi Cross is the Founder of impact consultancy WILDPALM, lead of the Edges of Earth expedition, writer, growth strategist & SSI divemaster. getty For some, the drive to protect people and the planet is innate. For others, it develops over time—often through firsthand exposure to how capitalism operates. It’s easy to spend years climbing the
StrictlyVC is turning up the heat in 2025 — and we’re going international! First stop: Athens, May 8. Get ready for sharp, unfiltered conversations onstage — and your chance to jump into the dialogue. This isn’t just an event; it’s a forum where every attendee has a voice with some of Europe’s most influential tech
Noida-based fast moving electrical goods (FMEG) company Havells India plans to invest ₹2,000 crore in business expansion over the next two years, and an additional ₹600 crore in the renewable energy space. Anil Rai Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director of Havells India said, “There are too many projects within our various businesses, and we will
Let’s go back to the beginning of the year here for a moment. (I hear you and your 401(k) eagerly nodding yes.) Back then, all the big tech companies, including Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft, were still planning on spending unfathomable gobs of money on artificial intelligence, and specifically unfathomable gobs of money on AI
DivcoWest’s Ariel Aber has jumped ship to join CBRE’s investment sales team. Aber, who headed New York investments for seven years at California-based DivcoWest, will partner with Doug Middleton to source and execute institutional investments in the Big Apple, the firm announced. It will be his first foray into brokerage. At DivcoWest, Aber helmed the
The World Meteorological Organisation has warned that the escalating climate crisis will spare no continent, with Africa facing some of the most severe consequences. Despite contributing just 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, Africa is disproportionately affected and the least equipped to handle the impact. The continent is warming faster than the global average, driving
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss pharmaceuticals powerhouse Roche announced Monday it plans to invest $50 billion in the United States over the next five years, creating 12,000 jobs. The Basel-based company, whose array of products includes cancer medicines and multiple sclerosis treatment Ocrevus, said the investment would go toward high-tech research and development sites and new
SPARTANBURG — South Carolina’s second-largest single investment to date is coming to Spartanburg County. NorthMark Strategies, through its subsidiary Valara Holdings, plans to transform a former manufacturing facility in the county into a high-performance computing center. The company is expected to invest $2.76 billion but only create 27 full-time jobs. The center will be one
Non-banking financial company Tata Investment Corporation Ltd on Monday (April 21) reported a 37.7% year-on-year (YoY) decline in net profit at ₹37.7 crore for the fourth quarter that ended March 31, 2025. In the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal, Tata Investment Corporation posted a net profit of ₹60.5 crore, the company said in a
[JOHOR BAHRU] Johor has secured about RM23 billion (S$6.9 billion) in its investment pipeline for the month of April alone, said Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz Ghazi on Monday (Apr 21). This comes on top of the RM27.4 billion in investments the state recorded in the first quarter of 2025. These inflows are a “powerful