BEVERLY HILLS, United States — High-end department store Barneys New York has given the marijuana lifestyle the luxury treatment, launching a range of pot-themed products this week in the latest sign a drug once associated with bohemians and deadbeats is moving up the social ladder. Customers at the upscale retailer’s Beverly Hills store on Friday perused a new section with hand-blown glass bongs, Gucci ashtrays, Read More

As the computing industry grapples with its role in society, many people, both in the fieldand outside it, are talking about a crisis of ethics. There is a massive rush to hire chief ethics officers, retool codes of professional ethics and teach ethics to students. But as a scholar of computing – and a teacher of a course on computing, ethics and society at Rice University – I am skeptical of the assumptions Read More

Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatty (GHB) is betting big on MICE and leisure business, thanks to the resurgence of the State’s tourism sector from floods and Nipah virus outbreak last year. “Kerala’s negative perception post floods have started fading, witnessing an encouraging trend in tourist arrivals. This has reflected in our room occupancy growth during Jan-Feb-March period, touching 65 per cent Read More

Bengaluru: The real estate sector, which has been struggling with weak demand and stagnant prices for years, has received another blow with the liquidity crisis at non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), one of their last funding sources. Many NBFCs have lost significant market value on growing concerns around asset-liability mismatches and tightening liquidity in the short-term money market, after a series of Read More

Whether she’s at home in Beverly Hills, at her weekend retreat in Ojai, or at extended-family properties in Santa Ynez and Lake Tahoe, good design is always front of mind for Jenni Kayne. The founder of California-based fashion label Jenni Kayne and lifestyle website Rip + Tan has a knack for entertaining, where nothing feels too stiff or fussy. It’s about about a Read More

Making magic is no simple proposition. While a good magician never shares her secrets, sometimes a curtain is lifted just enough for a glimpse behind the scenes. LAIKA is among those studios charged with manufacturing magic – literally manufacturing, as the team is dedicated to the intricate art of stop-motion animation. In Portland, Oregon, a city that thrives on the Read More

NEW DELHI: India’s antitrust watchdog raided units of global commodities trader Glencoreand two other firms in Mumbai on Saturday in an inquiry into alleged collusion on the price of pulses, four sources with knowledge of the raids told Reuters. More than 25 antitrust officials carried out the raids at the offices of local units of Glencore and Africa’s Export Trading Group, Read More

The seeds of a consumer-driven health care revolution, one that could turn the U.S. health care system on its head, were sown in early March. This potential disruption comes from an unlikely source: two proposed rules from the Department of Health and Human Services that could have consumers and America’s biggest tech firms joining forces. The rules, from the Office Read More

Most people think of the arctic as remote – a wasteland inhabited by polar bears (true) and penguins (untrue) – with little relevance to their daily lives. Most people are wrong. While the arctic may be distant for us geographically, what happens there has an enormous effect on us, no matter where we live. The last remaining house on what Read More

Data matters to every business. So it follows that every business needs a data strategy. As a strategic business and technology advisor, not only have I written the book on data strategy (literally), I’ve helped many of the world’s most successful organizations create one. In this article, I share my pearls of wisdom on how to create a winning data strategy – Read More