Total SA plans to start a digital factory in the coming weeks to tap artificial intelligence in a bid to save hundreds of millions of dollars on exploration and production projects.
The glass ceiling is still a reality — women run only about 5 percent of large companies. So is the glass cliff, the phenomenon wherein women only get tapped to lead companies that are already teetering.
Auto companies are finding that it’s easier to adopt the trappings of the digital economy than to push through the changes necessary to become full-blown members.
In the country’s fragmented retail market, where 90 percent of food is sold through informal outlets, tech startup Twiga Foods is trying to create efficiency to lower food prices.
Foxconn Technology says the iPhone will go into mass production in India this year, a shift for the largest assembler of Apple Inc.’s handsets that has long concentrated production in China.
Uber wants to convince investors that it’s a transportation and logistics market-maker that can build — and then supply — new demand for everything from scooters and bicycles to freight and food delivery.