トイレットペーパーのスタートアップ企業「フー・ギブス・ア・クラップ」は最近、3000万ドルを資金調達しました。竹やサトウキビなどの代替パルプを原料にし、商品の包装も紙を使うなど環境への配慮が特徴ですが、そのビジネスモデルもまた競合他社にはないユニークさが。いったいどんなものなのでしょうか？
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IMF boss Kristalina Georgieva ‘faces coup plot’
Renowned economist Joseph Stiglitz says chief is victim of conservative ‘hatchet job’ using unfair report to discredit herThe International Monetary Fund boss, Kristalina Georgieva, is the victim of a plot to oust her, according to a Nobel prize-winnin…
Labour and Lib Dems urge Morrisons owners to protect workers
Politicians say they will ensure the chain is not heaped with debt and stripped of assets after £7.1bn takeoverOpposition parties have urged Morrisons’ incoming private equity owners to protect workers and ensure that the supermarket is not heaped with…
Tesla Vehicle Deliveries Hit Another Record In Q3, Beats Analysts’ Estimates
Tesla announced that it’s delivered a new record number of electric cars in its third quarter, according to Reuters, “beating Wall Street estimates after Chief Executive Elon Musk asked staff to ‘go super hardcore’ to make a quarter-end delivery push….
Gordon Brown warns 3.5m households face fuel poverty this winter
Former prime minister says 2021 ‘worst time to be poor’ as he calls for support for struggling householdsThe former prime minister Gordon Brown has demanded fresh government financial support for households struggling to pay energy bills as he warned a…
‘Only yourselves to blame’: UK’s shortages seen from abroad
US and European media give their verdict on the fuel, food and labour crisis they say is caused by BrexitGovernment ministers may insist it is “wrong” to blame Brexit for Britain’s fuel, food and labour shortages, but for the rest of Europe – and beyon…
Boris Johnson: petrol crisis and pig cull part of necessary post-Brexit transition
Prime minister says UK cannot go back to ‘failed old model’ of immigration and low wagesQueues for petrol and mass culls of pigs at farms because of a lack of abattoir workers are part of a necessary transition for Britain to emerge from a broken econo…
Fuel crisis and supply shortages are a product of the UK’s economic model
Rising prices and lack of goods are what happens when just-in-time economy collides with skin-of-the-pants government It all seems to have happened so fast. Only a few months ago, the government was congratulating itself for the speed at which Britain …
リアルな場でのテックカンファレンスが、厳重な検査と“グータッチ”で復活し始めた
コロナ禍でオンライン開催となっていたテックカンファレンスの一部が、リアルな場に戻り始めている。業界の大物たちが集まる「Code Conference」では、登壇者や参加者はワクチンカードの確認や鼻腔スワブ検体による検査を経て会場に入り、会釈やグータッチで交流していた。こうした進め方は、完全対面式で再開されるカンファレンスの将来を占うものになるかもしれない。
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Sunak threatened by new winter of discontent after UK recovery fizzles out
The chancellor will address the Conservative party conference in Manchester against the background of a faltering economyRising prices, queues at the petrol pumps and a flatlining economy provide a sobering backdrop to Rishi Sunak’s speech at the Conse…