Print section Print Headline: Business this week UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The death of the internal combustion engine Main image: 20170812_wwp004.jpg An internal memo written by a male engineer at Google that claimed biological factors accounted for the gender gap in Silicon Valley sparked an uproar. James Damore said he had wanted to start an “honest discussion” about the lack of women in senior jobs, a discussion he argued was impossible in the tech industry because of an intolerance of views from outside the liberal mainstream. Google subsequently sacked Mr Damore for violating its code of conduct. See article. After weeks of negotiations, Vantiv struck a deal to buy Worldpay, which the companies valued at £9.3bn ($12bn). Based in Cincinnati, Vantiv is one of America’s biggest processors of credit-card payments and electronic money-transfers. Worldpay is Britain’s biggest payment-processor. Vantiv’s shareholders will own 57% of the combined group, to be called Worldpay. Not so intelligent Commonwealth Bank of Australia scrapped bonuses for its ...
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