Old Navy, the company’s biggest brand, brought in $7.5 billion in revenue last year globally, while Athleta, which caters to women, is the company’s highest margin business. Athleta’s first-quarter sales surged by 56 percent from the same period in 2019. Ms. Syngal was appointed chief executive of Gap in March 2020 just as the pandemic […]

NEW DELHI — Twitter on Thursday pushed back against India’s increasingly heavy-handed efforts to police online speech, calling on the government there to respect freedom of expression and criticizing what it called “intimidation tactics” by the country’s police. In a statement, the San Francisco-based social media service said it planned to push leaders in India […]

A Generic-Sounding Name Before Mr. Larson, Mr. Gates’s financial consigliere was Andrew L. Evans, a longtime friend who had previously served a six-month prison sentence for bank fraud. (Mr. Gates visited him in jail.) But when Mr. Evans’s criminal record was spotlighted in a front-page Wall Street Journal article in 1993, Mr. Gates sought out […]

OREFIELD, Pa. — From his office in an old barn on a turkey farm, David Jaindl watches a towering flat-screen TV with video feeds from the hatchery to the processing room, where the birds are butchered. Mr. Jaindl is a third-generation farmer in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. His turkeys are sold at Whole Foods and served […]

Here’s what you need to know: “We don’t always agree, but we always understand there is an opportunity to improve,” said Darren W. Woods, the chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil.Credit…Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters Exxon Mobil’s management will face a big challenge over its climate change policies at an annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday as activists […]

The original 2007 video “Charlie Bit My Finger,” a standard-bearer of viral internet fascination, has sold as a nonfungible token for $760,999, and the family who created it will take down the original from YouTube for good. The original video, which has close to 900 million views, features Charlie Davies-Carr, an infant in England, biting […]

WASHINGTON — Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter moderate speech online, by imposing fines on social media companies that permanently bar political candidates for statewide office. The law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is a direct response to Facebook’s and Twitter’s bans of former President […]

LOS ANGELES — For 28 years, ever since “Super Mario Bros.” arrived in cinemas with the tagline “This Ain’t No Game,” Hollywood has been trying and mostly failing — epically, famously — to turn hit video games into hit movies. For every “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (2001), which turned Angelina Jolie into an A-list action […]

SHANGHAI — Yuan Longping, a Chinese plant scientist whose breakthroughs in developing high-yield hybrid strains of rice helped to alleviate famine and poverty across much of Asia and Africa, died on Saturday in Changsha, China. He was 90. The cause was multiple organ failure, China’s main state-run newspaper, People’s Daily, reported. An earlier report from […]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The coronavirus was ripping through Pakistan, and Muhammad Nasir Chaudhry was worried. Long lines and tight supplies plagued the government’s free vaccine campaign. Newspapers were filled with reports of well-connected people jumping the line for a free dose. Then Mr. Chaudhry, a 35-year-old government consultant, discovered he could pay to leapfrog the […]