Fortune 500 Daily

President Trump just announced the official re-launch of the United States Space Command. SpaceCom operated between 19-85 and two-thousand-two, but ended after the 9-11 attacks shifted focus to homeland security. The reactivated command will oversee and plan all national security operations in space. This is different from Trump’s Space Force – a proposed sixth branch of the military that has been the butt of many jokes on late-night television.

The next time you do a Google search… consider this. Nearly seventy-percent of the world’s websites do not meet basic accessibility criteria. That means millions of people with disabilities can’t access the internet. Kat Holmes is tackling this issue head on. She is Google’s Director of User Experience, and also author of the book “Mismatch – How Inclusion Shapes Design.

For the seventh straight year – Walmart has claimed the number-one spot on the Fortune 500. The discount retailer’s revenues topped out at more than 5-hundred-billion. To help it hold on to this coveted spot, the brick-and-mortar giant is turning to tech. Walmart is upgrading its stores, creating mobile apps with store maps and price checks. But technology is also improving the efficiency of Walmart’s workforce.

You may know the company as just “Smucker’s” – but the jam and jelly giant’s official name is “The J-M Smucker Company.” That’s J-M as in Jerome Monroe, who founded Smucker’s more than one-hundred-and-twenty-years ago. It’s still a family business today, run by Jerome’s great, great grandson, Mark Smucker.

Washington is not happy with Wall Street. And this time, it’s not about the stock market. The House Financial Services Committee just released a summary of how America’s big banks are doing when it comes to diversity – and the results are dismal. After analyzing data from the country’s largest financial institutions, the committee found only 29 percent of bank board members are women, and just seventeen percent are minorities.

Imagine trying to reinvent a one-hundred-and-twenty-year old insurance company. Alan Colberg doesn’t have to imagine it – he LIVED it. Colberg became C-E-O of New-York based Assurant in 20-15… but quickly realized that big changes were needed for the company to move forward.

In two-thousand-and-seven, Hilton was in trouble. The hotel company had lost its competitive edge and had acquired massive amounts of debt. On top of that – there was a global financial crisis brewing. Private equity firm Blackstone Group bought Hilton for 26-billion dollars, and brought in a new C-E-O… Christopher Nassetta. (nuh-SET-uh) He sat down with Fortune’s Susie Gharib and described what it was like to lead the company during this time.

The tech industry is under fire. From privacy violations and data hacks to the spread of fake news and hate speech – there is growing demand for tech companies to take responsibility for their products. This hasn’t escaped notice at Adobe – the Fortune 500 company that brought us Photoshop.

Goldman Sachs has been one of the world’s leading commercial banks for more than a century. But three years ago, the company decided to enter the consumer banking arena. It launched Marcus – a branchless, online bank that provides personal loans and savings accounts. Goldman’s Head of Digital Finance, Harit (har-RITT) Talwar (TALL-wahr) shared the lofty goals for Marcus at Fortune’s Brainstorm Finance in June.

You may think of Target as the brick-and-mortar store where you can pick up everything from school supplies to groceries. But like so many other businesses in today’s digitized world, Target is as much a tech company as it is a retailer. In fact, Target employs nearly three-thousand engineers who work on things like automating supply chains, and designing new stores.