Bloomberg Members of the Walton family, heirs to the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fortune, are backing a startup that thinks it can turn a profit by reducing food waste. The business, called FoodMaven, has completed an $8.6 million Series A fundraising round that includes financing from the billionaire Walton clan. The family office is Walton Enterprises, which holds nearly half of ...

Bloomberg As everyone learned when a passenger was forcibly removed from a United Express flight, social media and the ubiquity of mobile phone cameras have shifted the ground rules for airline customer service. The best and worst corporate interactions speed across the internet with potentially dire results for corporate targets of public anger. For air carriers in particular, “the world ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi’s trade in aluminum and copper amounted to AED12.8 billion in the first 10 months of 2017, a growth of 29.2 percent from AED9.9 billion during the corresponding period in 2016, as per figures released recently by the Statistics Centre— Abu Dhabi. The significant growth was catapulted by the momentum experienced at some platforms associated ...