What 2022 could bring for private equity, in 5 charts

Girls in fund need to request promotions. Men do not

Far fewer women than men will be encouraged from the fund sector unless they {} seniority, a indication of systemic sex prejudice, as per another research in Australia. The poll of 2,000 finance sector professionals revealed 76 percent of people were offered a promotion at once without asking it, compared to 57 percent of girls. […]

Microsoft backs Australian law forcing Google to pay for news links

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (credit: Microsoft) Google has portrayed itself as a defender of the open Internet as it battles an Australian proposal to force Google and Facebook to pay Australian news organizations to link to their articles. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has argued that the ability to link to […]

Biden’s right-to-repair order could stop companies from blocking DIY fixes

Enlarge (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images) After years of petitions and proposals, momentum is building in government to give consumers broader rights to repair products they own ranging from farm tractors to mobile phones. In a press briefing yesterday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Biden will issue an executive order directing the US […]