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When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com Inc. more than two decades ago, he sought to keep the online bookstore away from the government’s reach. He has said he looked into placing its headquarters on an Indian reservation as a tax-saving strategy. 
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Cannabis producer Tilray Inc. has filed for a proposed initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average has ejected numerous blue-chip industrial companies over the past decade, including miner Alcoa Inc., Westinghouse Electric Corp. and this week General Electric Co., in an effort to adapt a 19th-century index to a 21st-century economy.
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A group of shareholders will be fighting National Amusements on the same schedule as CBS after a Delaware judge denied NAI’s motion to stay the class action lawsuit and ruled it could be tried with the television company’s.
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Like many companies during the 2008-2009 recession, P&F Industries was happy to survive. The board acknowledged that the world was changing and that the board would have to change as well if the company was to compete. In this episode, we hear about one board’s journey to form a Strategic Planning Committee, to which it added the responsibility of risk management several years later (now called the Strategic Planning and Risk Assessment Committee).
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Walt Disney raised its bid for some of the most prized assets of Twenty-First Century Fox by nearly $20bn on Wednesday, as an intensifying bidding war with rival Comcast pushed the value of the businesses put up for sale by Rupert Murdoch to more than $71bn.
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Canada’s competition watchdog says the CRTC’s plan to force the biggest companies to offer low-cost data packages is not a substitute for “true competition,” arguing in a rare intervention that price controls should be only a temporary measure.
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Investors have been pushing marijuana shares back near their highs, with a number of stocks recovering most of what they lost during a recent correction, as the federal government neared passage of legislation that will legalize recreational use of the drug.
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A group of Amazon shareholders are calling on the company to stop pitching its facial recognition tool to local law enforcement agencies, writing in a letter to CEO Jeff Bezos that the technology could pose a privacy threat and a financial risk.
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Amid headlines over exorbitant CEO salaries, hospital executives have maintained relatively modest pay increases in recent years and fall in the middle of the pack compared to other industries.
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Prudential Regulatory Authority warns it will act using the senior managers’ regime where executive behaviour is found to be wanting.
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New legislation will ask pension fund trustees to publish policies relating to environmental, social and governance issues, including climate change.
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Companies can determine whether they should invest in blockchain by focusing on specific use cases and their market position.
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If Walt Disney is hoping that its newly juiced bid for Fox assets will crush Comcast into submission, it is likely to be disappointed.
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The historic Senate vote passing legislation to legalize recreational marijuana sent Canada’s biggest cannabis stocks on a roller-coaster ride Wednesday, with many surging at the open before falling back and then rallying to end the day.
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Meet Rich Osborn and the team at TELUS Ventures, a leading Corporate Venture Capital program with a passion for innovation
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If boardroom meetings were streamed live for investors, would there be an improvement in board performance? Kieran Moynihan of Board Excellence says radical steps like this are necessary to improve corporate accountability.
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Investors have complained for years that Volkswagen is poorly governed by a supervisory board that lacks both independence and expertise.
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Two years ago, the federal government announced an expansion to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), marking the most significant change in Canada’s three-pillar retirement income system in half a century.
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The European Union will begin charging import duties of 25 per cent on a range of U.S. products on Friday, in response to U.S tariffs imposed on EU steel and aluminium early this month, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
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Canadians will be able to legally purchase and consume recreational marijuana by mid-September at the latest after the Senate voted Tuesday to lift almost a century-old prohibition on cannabis.
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Audi has tapped its top sales executive to lead the company temporarily after the CEO was arrested.
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Ahold Delhaize, the biggest food retail group in the Benelux region with a rough market cap of €25 billion, is facing pushback from shareholders over a unique Dutch practice. The company recently announced that it had extended its call option agreement with a foundation called “Stichting Continuïteit Ahold Delhaize” or “SCAD” (roughly translated as the foundation for continuity of Ahold Delhaize), without giving investors the opportunity to vote on the deal.
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France’s Financial Stability Council orders banks to keep aside an additional capital buffer to cover potential risk related to growing private sector borrowing.
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The Financial Reporting Council has highlighted a worsening in audit quality at KPMG as reports that audit standards across the Big Four firms has fallen.
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