Attitudes toward healthcare shifted during the pandemic — providing Amazon a new opportunity to keep going with its health ambitions.
Why it matters: The company hasn't had much success with its existing attempts in the space — but experiences during COVID have made consumers more willing to try different forms of health care and to share associated data.
Michelle Obama is poised to release a follow-up book to her best-selling memoir on Nov. 15.
Driving the news: The former first lady is releasing "The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times," to be published by Penguin Random House's Crown imprint.
You're less likely to be killed or injured by someone else at work than you were 30 years ago.
Driving the news: 454 people were killed in workplace homicides in 2019, down 57% from 1,044 in 1992, as declines in workplace violence have outpaced the nationwide drop, according to federal data released Thursday.
Shares for Snap Inc. were down more than 26% in after-hours trading Thursday after the company said revenue growth would meaningfully slow in the months ahead.
Why it matters: In May, Snap warned investors it would miss its second quarter guidance. Wall Street's response to Snap's earnings report today, despite that mid-quarter warning, shows how spooked investors are by the severity of Snap's revenue headwinds.
Sian Beilock will lead Dartmouth College as president starting next year.
Why it matters: Beilock will become the first woman to lead the Ivy League school in its 250-plus year history. And at 46, she will become the youngest president in the Ivy League, Bloomberg notes.
CNN CEO Chris Licht met with a handful of senior congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in an effort to strengthen the network's relationships with key lawmakers, many of whom have turned sour on cable news, sources familiar with the meetings told Axios.
The big picture: Licht has been vocal about his push to lead CNN away from what critics have described as partisan and alarmist programming in favor of neutral journalism and balanced debate.
Next Thursday, the Commerce Department will release its initial estimate of second-quarter growth. President Biden's economic advisers are trying to lay down a marker now.
They say that even if the number turns out to show a second straight quarter of negative growth, the U.S. economy was almost certainly not in a recession in the first half of this year.
The Department of Justice announced charges against three people on Thursday accused of trading on privileged information about which tokens Coinbase would list on its cryptocurrency exchange.
"Our message with these charges is clear: fraud is fraud is fraud, whether it occurs on the blockchain or on Wall Street," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said.
July is Disability Pride Month. It’s also the month that Congress signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law in 1990.
Why it matters: 26% of Americans have a disability, according to the CDC. That’s approximately 61 million, or one in four people. But how to effectively communicate with people with disabilities is often overlooked.
Democratic members of Congress are pushing the U.S. Census Bureau to ensure communities undercounted in the 2020 survey get the federal funding they need.
Why it matters: Latinos were omitted from the 2020 census at a rate more than three times higher than in the 2010 census.
With communication skills in high demand, the challenge isn't finding an open role — it’s finding one that fits your lifestyle and rewards your work.
Driving the news: A new study shared first with Axios, "The State of PR Salaries" from public relations platform Muck Rack, proves something we all suspected: PR is an overworked and often underpaid industry.
Evgeny Gaevoy is one of the original cowboys, building a shop that enables digital assets trading in the midst of the 2017 crypto winter. Wintermute is now among the largest crypto market makers, providing liquidity on 65 exchanges.
Driving the news: Gaevoy, in an interview with Axios at an Ethereum conference in Paris, is stoic in the face of the current bear market and the mess left behind by the firms that loaned billions of dollars to the now-defunct Three Arrows Capital (3AC).
Amazon has agreed to acquire One Medical, the primary care chain, for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction. It values the latter at about $3.9 billion, including its net debt.
Why it matters: This is Amazon's latest move into health care after some efforts panned out better than others.
Amazon is beginning wide-scale deliveries Thursday with its Rivian-designed electric cargo van, a next-generation logistics vehicle years in the making.
Why it matters: Significantly electrifying Amazon's delivery van fleet could help the company meet its ambitious target of hitting net zero carbon emissions by 2040.
The European Central Bank said on Thursday it would raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years — hiking borrowing costs by a larger-than-expected 0.5%.
Why it matters: It's one of the last major central banks to pull the trigger on raising rates. It's a new era for the eurozone after a long spell of ultra-loose monetary policy (with negative interest rates) as policymakers face record-high inflation in the bloc — and the threat of a recession.
Meta announced major changes Thursday to the Facebook app that will transform its experience into a more TikTok-like selection of algorithmically chosen videos — and shunt off content posted by family, friends and groups into a separate side feed.
Why it matters: The move shifts Facebook further from a social network and toward an entertainment and shopping platform like TikTok, which has increasingly challenged Facebook's dominance in user engagement and mobile advertising.
Rents have soared over the past year — but renting is still more affordable than buying at the entry-level in three-quarters of the country, according to a new analysis released Thursday by Realtor.com.
Why it matters: This is a big shift from January when renting had the edge in a little over half of the markets.
Europeans didn’t need another reminder that they’re living through an energy crisis — but, boy, did they get one.
Driving the news: The historic heat wave pummeling the continent this week sent power prices to new record highs; in France and Italy, average weekly prices have more than tripled over the last five weeks, according to Rystad Energy.
Sharp, persuasive communications has raced to the C-suite's inner sanctum as a vital ingredient in attracting and retaining investors, customers and employees.
Why it matters: CEOs now have to respond not only to their own fires but also societal, global and national crises — all in real time. Just ask leaders at Abbott, Disney and Delta Air Lines.
