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There’s something worse than running the Deutsche Bank

Juergen Fitschen probably thought life would become a bit calmer when he stepped down as co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank AG in 2016. Later that year he was nominated supervisory board chairman of German electronics retailer Ceconomy AG, where the 70-year-old now collects a salary of 240,000 euros, a fraction of his Deutsche days. And then, all hell broke loose. ...

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Facebook can’t seem to learn from its mistakes

Nine months after a scandal erupted over Facebook Inc.’s open borders of user information, those borders are in the news again. The New York Times reported that after Facebook tightened rules in 2015 to limit the account information that could be hooked into outside companies’ apps and websites, the social network made many exceptions and some previously made special deals ...

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LG plans selling TVs that roll up like posters in 2019

Bloomberg LG Electronics Inc. plans to begin selling big-screen TVs next year that can be rolled up and put away like a poster, the centerpiece of an effort to revive an ailing business, according to a person familiar with the matter. The envisioned 65-inch TVs will retract automatically at the touch of a button like a garage door, the person ...

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