After successfully running and then selling a multimillion-dollar family-owned paint business, the most valuable lesson Don Strube learned wasn’t about corporate control. It was realizing he had to shrink his ego. If Strube hadn’t overcome his ego, established processes to hire and retain the right people and develop a positive company culture, success likely would […]

WASHINGTON — Streaming platform HBO Max is expanding into the podcast market. The company will release its upcoming podcast “Batman: The Audio Adventures” exclusively on the streaming platform as it continues to expand its audio offerings beyond companion podcasts. The company announced recently that it’s planning to release its new “Batman” podcast, “Batman: The Audio Adventures,” as […]

NEW DELHI — The Indian domestic air passenger traffic grew 56 percent at about 4.8 million in July compared to 3.1 million in June as Covid-19 infection trajectory declined, Indian rating agency ICRA said on Aug. 5.  The airlines’ capacity deployment for July was 90 percent higher than July 2020 (47,200 departures in July 2021 against 24,770 […]

NEW DELHI — The Indian government has said that no Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) shall be allowed to fly within 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the international border, including the Line of Control (LoC), Line of Actual Control (LAC), and Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL), on Aug. 5. Replying to a question regarding the regulation […]

BUSUNU, Ghana — The viral video shows a group of young people from Busunu, Damongo Constituency, Savannah Region of northern Ghana reloading bags of rice onto three pickup trucks while shouting, “we need jobs, not rice”, on July 18. It was two days to the Muslim festival of Eid-al Adha or the “Feast of Sacrifice”. Per custom, the […]

A product of vegetable oil, renewable diesel fuel production in the U.S. is set to grow as fast as Iowa corn. But behind the strong growth projection for the biofuel is a brewing fight between everyone from bakers to oil refiners to farmers, as lawmakers and regulators consider how to integrate biofuels like biodiesel and […]

U.S. federal data on petroleum and refined product levels show the world’s leading economy still has a sizable appetite for fuels, though that situation might not last, analysts told Zenger. The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes weekly data on storage levels of commercial crude oil and refined products such as gasoline. Broad-based gains in inventory […]

In 2020, Internet users had the highest growth observed in the last five years, due to the lockdown, according to the Internet Association. The way people approached digital and traditional media also changed, as well as the way people live via technology, which became the primary socialization tool for many due to social distancing. The […]