Watchdog to investigate compensation over car loans
Thousands of buyers have made complaints about how much they were charged for financing.
Thousands of buyers have made complaints about how much they were charged for financing.
If you’re making a list of big news stories of 2023, here’s one you might want to check twice: The surge in “organized retail crime,” or gang shoplifting. I’ve written before about the news media’s fixation on this phenomenon despite the unreliability of retailers’ claims about it, and especially when compared with the much more…
AutomotiveBusiness & Finance 28 November 2023, 4:40 am 1 minute Reuters reported that Bhavish Aggarwal, India’s answer to Elon Musk, is racing to roll out millions of electric scooters and speed his nation to a cleaner future. Some of his mechanics can’t keep up, though. Aggarwal’s Ola Electric, which he likens to Tesla in the…
Some new unions are facing an unforeseen hurdle as they try to bargain first contracts with big-name employers: getting sued for the names they’ve chosen. Starbucks is the latest company to file an intellectual property lawsuit against its employees’ union. The coffee chain claims that the group, Workers United, is “diluting” the Starbucks brand and…
Bill Ackman says he has “good reason to believe” plagiarism allegations against his wife, former tenured Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Neri Oxman, came from an inside source at the esteemed university. Business Insider expanded its investigation into Oxman’s 2010 MIT doctoral dissertation on Friday, finding that aside from the four paragraphs of improperly-cited information…
For travelers trying to reach their destinations during the storm-tossed holiday season last year, there was no problem identifying the Grinch who stole Christmas: It was Southwest Airlines. Southwest, it may be recalled, canceled or delayed more than 16,900 flights between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2, stranding more than 2 million passengers. The meltdown kept…
The shift to hybrid work has changed the way we think about offices, collaboration, and even work-life balance. But it’s also changed something else: how vulnerable businesses are to cyber threats. With employees splitting time between home and the office, often logging in on personal devices and networks, the attack surface has never been wider….