weekly-highlights

PepsiCo started losing the cola wars when its CEOs lost focus | Fortune

Good morning. PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta knows that he has a cola problem. He said “we’re…

Indonesia slashes gas exports to Singapore by 9%, claiming it's in 'survival mode' | Fortune

Natural gas is becoming a diplomatic flashpoint across the Strait of Malacca, adding to a host…

42% of America's recent college grads are working jobs that don’t need a degree. From Kathmandu to Paris, young people are taking to the streets | Fortune

America’s newest college graduates were sold the college premium. Four in 10 of them are working…

RevOps automation: What it is and how it works

When go-to-market systems are fragmented or manual, revenue operations becomes a bottleneck instead of an asset.…

Saudi Arabia wants to send 10 million barrels of oil a day around Hormuz. A former Treasury official says it may barely move prices | Fortune

Saudi oil giant Aramco, officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is racing to build a bigger…

Looters hit 3,000 French businesses. Within hours, the haul was trending on Vinted under the riot’s date | Fortune

As French protesters took to the street this week over the country’s escalating debt crisis, poor…

France's latest debt warning describes a country where governance is breaking down — and even doing too little, too late is barely possible | Fortune

France avoided a credit downgrade from Moody’s, but the ratings agency painted a bleak picture of…

Biotech firm Rakuten Medical wants to bring its novel 'lightsaber' cancer cure to the U.S. | Fortune

Minami Maeda, CEO of Rakuten Medical, hopes he can get doctors to stop using their scalpels…

It's not just France — Protesters are marching across Europe as part of the newly formed 'Oct. 17 Movement' | Fortune

Italy deployed soldiers to Milan as the nation’s fashion and finance capital braced for fresh protests…

Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will face off in orbit next year, NASA confirms. 'As a rocket nerd, it's going to be pretty awesome' | Fortune

NASA is moving fast on its plans to build amoon baseand return astronauts to the lunar…