By Reuters Published May 21, 2025 The family that dominates Swatch Group faces an unusual test on Wednesday when an American investor tries to secure a place on the Swiss watchmaker’s board, bidding to shake up its performance after a slide in its fortunes. Swatch Steven Wood, founder of U.S. firm GreenWood Investors, wants Swatch…
May 1, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA; Texas Rangers third baseman Josh Jung (6) throws out Athletics catcher Jhonny Pereda (not pictured) during the fifth inning at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images The weekend series between Texas and Detroit has featured a brotherly sideshow. Third basemen Josh Jung of the Rangers and Jace…
Around that time, “there was another thing I had to deal with,” Evan told me. We were sitting in a study room in the library at Loyola Marymount. Long, wide windows overlooked a colonnade of palm trees. Evan has the same deep dimples and unwavering eye contact as his younger self, but he wears his…
Two of President Trump’s sons announced on Monday that they were investing in a new Bitcoin mining venture, an expansion of the family’s business interests in the crypto industry. Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. said they would join forces with the Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 to create a firm called American Bitcoin. Bitcoin…
Last year, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, and Tom Alison, one of his top lieutenants, were discussing how they wanted to reshape Facebook for the future of social networking. Mr. Zuckerberg, who had grown Facebook from a dorm room project to a $1.5 trillion company that he renamed Meta, wanted to bring back some of…
ONE COLD MORNING in April 2020, the furniture designer Etel Carmona woke up in the Serra da Mantiqueira mountains of southeastern Brazil, lost in fog. The ridges she had seen when she arrived the previous day — a familiar view from her childhood outside the nearby village of Sapucaí-Mirim — had disappeared entirely. Carmona, 78,…