Tech companies from amazon to netflix are being targeted in a campaign from a large group of investors calling for transparency in Environmental Impact. Can corporations take the lead on stability . Facebook is launching a cryptocurrency called libra. Social media giant wants you to think of it like the u. S. Dollar but a currency you can use globally, if it is successful. Libra is known as a stable coin, a Digital Currency backed by government supported currencies and securities. It is the culmination of a yearlong effort as facebook seeks to spur growth on various platforms that count more than 2 billion users. Spotify, stripe, uber, visa, mastercard are among almost 30 Companies Supporting the project. Will this make it to the mainstream or will it be another overhyped facebook product that never quite takes off . One lawmaker has an opinion. Senator Sherrod Brown tweeted, facebook is already too big and too powerful and uses data to exploit privacy. We cannot allow facebook to run
Qualitative view. They did not do a baseline before. What they are finding now is that they can say through survey data, that 90 percent of the time when the person enters a store, they are bringing in a bag. It does delay the need to have some good baseline data. The country of ireland did a similar thing where they started out about, oh gosh, about 21 cents per bag. What was interesting in ireland when they put in their 20 cents per bag they saw a huge change in behavior. Over time people acclimated to that cost of doing business, and there use of Reusable Bags and started to drop off. When they prodded people again with a raise in the fee, they saw the behavior that they wanted again. They saw a drop off of purchase of bags and an increase in using reusable. For our own data in San Francisco. After the ordinance was put in effect after about 2013. We did an informal survey of compliance as well as behavior. We found a rough estimate of about 60 percent. By right to me would be a pla
How deepfake videos can make anyone appear to say anything and what the tech giants are doing about it. Markets overall slightly low, but reports two tankers are on fire. And well be getting the inside track on the business of increasing the visibility of your website through better Search Engine optimisation well be getting some top tips on how to boost your sites ranking. And deepfake videos are suddenly becoming more visible. Today we want to know how concerned are you about the problem . Are the big tech giants doing enough to counter it . Let us know what you think just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in the us where just days after pulling back from the brink of a trade war against mexico President Trump has a new target in his sights. He has criticized germany for over dependence on russia for energy and threatened sanctions against european firms involved in a massive project to bring more russian gas to europe. Russia meanwhile has said efforts t
Two plants in ivanovo and georgievskie were transferred to the new owner; together they can produce 32 tons of products per year, for the first 6 months baby food will be produced under the hains logo, but in the spring chernogolovka will launch a new brand on the market. The largest russian banks have increased the profitability of deposits in yuan. The maximum rate has risen to 5 per annum, a businessman writes about this. Almost 99 of such deposits go to vip clients, that is, the wealthiest. They also have the most profitable deposits, the publication notes. Experts believe that further increases in the yield of deposits in chinese currency will be limited. And the ban on russian diamonds will take about 20 billion from western countries. The association of Russian Jewelers Guild announced this to a russian newspaper. Eu decisions primarily impact brokers who resell Raw Materials. Moreover, for russians. Miners will not receive a fatal blow from sanctions; our country will sell diam
13 miners were trapped on a piece of rock. All forces have been mobilized to save people. The professional holiday is celebrated by russian submariners at all submarine bases at the main fleet bases with ceremonial events. The gas market in europe is again in a fever due to the suspension of the work of export plants and terminals. What else will we tell you about in the economics issue . A criminal case has been opened regarding the collapse at a mine in the amur region, about this the Investigative Committee reported. More than 10 people are believed to have been trapped under the rubble; there is no contact with them. Kornikov blocked about 9. 00 cubic meters of rock. All forces have been mobilized, a helicopter from the ministry of emergency situations arrived from khabarovsk. Region and yakut nerenguri, a reserve from kusbas has also been prepared. According to rescuers, they are assessing the situation and conducting reconnaissance of the scene using underground equipment and loa