Fast-food giant Popeyes has been stashing chicken for months amid a nationwide shortage and price hikes — to ensure it has a healthy reserve of poultry ahead of the debut of its new nuggets later this month. The Miami-based chain, which is owned by Restaurant Brands International, has been building its reserve of frozen chicken … Read more
David Solomon’s bid to rebrand Goldman Sachs as environmentally green is going up in flames — courtesy of a bankrupt oil and gas company in North Dakota. That’s the charge from critics — and creditors — who claim that Goldman, as a key lender of debtor-in-possession financing to Nine Point Energy, has failed to curb … Read more
Sacha Baron Cohen is suing a Massachusetts company for using his popular “Borat” character and “It’s nice” catchphrase to sell marijuana, a product he doesn’t use. The British comedian claims cannabis seller Solar Therapeutics failed to seek his permission before slapping an image of Borat — the bumbling Kazakh broadcaster Cohen played in two Hollywood … Read more
An executive at Peter Thiel’s venture capital fund is running for a US Senate seat with $10 million in backing from his boss. Blake Masters, the 34-year-old chief operating officer at investment firm Thiel Capital and a former protege of the billionaire at Stanford, announced Monday that he is running as a Republican to … Read more
Facebook fired 52 employees for abusing their access to the social network’s user data — including creepy men who obtained location data on women they were romantically interested in, according to a new report. Using their access to troves of user data through Facebook’s internal systems, male engineers were able to view women’s locations, private … Read more