Raw StoryLiberal View A Giuliani company got a PPP loan from a Trump-friendly bank — but lists no employees. Was it fraud? Raw Story - Roger Sollenberger, Salon A payroll company owned by Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, took between $150,000 and $350,000 in taxpayer-backed emergency small …
Business InsiderSundar PichaiGoogle's CEO says the future of work involves a 'hybrid model' and the company is already reconfiguring its offices for 'on-sites'... verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Avery HartmansGoogle's famous offices may look a bit different for employees once it's safe for them to begin returning to work. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said last week that the company was making changes to its physical...
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBankruptcy The DoJ allowed an oil company to hide $10 million in political donations as part of its bankruptcy filings | Boing Boing boingboing.net - Thom Dunn In early 2020, the Denver-based Extraction Oil & Gas company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, hoping to reorganize or otherwise free …
Rocket Companies Rocket Companies Prices IPO At $18 Per Share: Here's Why It Marks A Paradigm Shift In Financial Services benzinga.com - Renato Capelj On Wednesday evening, Detroit-based Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), home to Quicken Loans, the nation's largest retail mortgage lender, priced its …
USA TODAYCharter Schools Though it has no teachers, this company gets millions meant for private, charter schools verified_publisherUSA TODAY - Rob O'DellPHOENIX – To backers, Prenda microschools represent a “return to the one-room schoolhouse” of the past, empowering parents to educate their children in intimate settings away from the cruel public school...
CNNOpinion & Analysis Opinion: A company in Brazil made a controversial move to fight racism. Other CEOs should try it verified_publisherCNNAlthough she's not a household name in the United States, billionaire Luiza Trajano, the richest woman in Brazil, might very well become one soon if her radical new model to confront structural racism...
CNNWorld News This company says it can make top-shelf whiskey in just a few days verified_publisherCNN - By(CNN) — Bespoken Spirits says it is using science to produce better whiskeys. Now, it has several million dollars to prove it can. The Menlo Park, California-based startup, which uses a proprietary technology...
Business InsiderLowe'sA Lowe's shopper who saw mask-less people swarming her local store has launched a petition with 115,000 signatures begging... verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Áine CainTanja Softic was browsing the aisles in her local Lowe's store on July 25 when a stranger bolted towards her. By that point, Softic was already on edge at the home improvement chain's Richmond, Virginia,...
CNNOperation Warp SpeedCovid-19 vaccine company under federal investigation after Covid-19 vaccine company under federal investigation over allegedly... verified_publisherCNN - By Shannon LiaoNew York (CNN Business) — California biotech company Vaxart, which is working on a Covid-19 vaccine, is under federal investigation and is being sued by a number of investors for allegedly exaggerating...
Inc MagazineBusiness BMarko Had No Healthcare Experience. It Was Asked to Build a Hospital During Covid--and Delivered Inc Magazine - Kevin J. RyanWhen the number of pandemic patients threatened to overwhelm hospitals, this company saw a solution in used shipping containers. BMarko Structures No. 470 2020 Rank Three-year growth rate In April, when...
Raw StoryLiberal View Trump's trade war backfired -- and made it even more advantageous for American companies to transfer operations to China Raw Story - The Conversation The 2016 election was a referendum on free trade, which many blamed for destroying millions of American manufacturing jobs. In 2020, it could be …
FortuneSEC (U.S.) The U.S. is pushing ahead with its threat to delist Chinese companies verified_publisherFortune - Bloomberg The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing ahead with a plan that threatens to kick Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges, setting …
Business InsiderAmazonFreshAmazon is investing $1.4 billion to expand into 6 cities outside of Seattle, and it may be a sign that tech companies are... verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Avery HartmansFor Amazon, the future of office work, post-coronavirus, means thousands of new jobs and office hubs in six cities across the US. The ecommerce giant announced Tuesday that it's planning to add 3,500 and...
Business InsiderAlex KarpSecretive data company Palantir has moved its headquarters to Denver from Palo Alto after its CEO called Silicon Valley 'monoculture'... verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Avery HartmansSecretive data company Palantir has officially moved its headquarters to Denver after its CEO described Silicon Valley as a "monoculture." The company has made the change official on its website, listing...
CNNPublix Family files suit over Publix employee's death. It says company failed to protect him from Covid-19 verified_publisherCNN - By Konstantin Toropin(CNN) — The family of a Publix employee who died from coronavirus complications has filed a wrongful death lawsuit that claims the grocery store chain refused to allow employees to wear masks at the time...
BloombergU.S. Navy U.S. Chemical Companies Face Few Legal Risks, and the Cartels Bank On It verified_publisherBloomberg - Cam Simpson Taminco illegally sold enough MMA for Mexican narcos to make $3.2 billion worth of methamphetamine. For that, it paid a fine of just $1.3 million—in …
QuartzFinance The CEO of a $1.2 billion space company can’t use its technology verified_publisherQuartz - Tim FernholzThe Russian founder of a business going public in a $1.2 billion transaction is not allowed to work with his own company’s products because of US rules intended to keep advanced space technology away geopolitical...
Business InsiderHome ConstructionThis startup scored $10 million to build homes like Apple builds phones. Here's how it won over a Founders Fund VC and one... verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Alex TorresWhen Henry Ford started using an assembly line, he cut the cost of making the Model T car by more than half. Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph, the cofounders of Cover, took a page out of Ford's playbook...
Fast CompanyUber If we want more companies like Patagonia, we need laws to enforce it verified_publisherFast Company - By Kristin ToussaintIf we want to get past “woke capitalism,” this is what it’ll take to get companies to an equitable relationship with both workers and society. A day after the August NBA strike in response to yet another...
InputUber Nearly 200 Uber employees sued the company over its terrible IPO Input - J. Fergus The extra tax burden placed on Uber employees. As Uber rails against California state law to avoid making its drivers employees, trouble’s brewing on …
Investing US stock markets are flying high, but it’s a different story for its companies like Disney inews.co.uk - The Economist Bob Chapek, Disney’s boss, sounded a cheerful note as he announced the entertainment giant’s quarterly results on 4 August. Its newish streaming …
AxiosTikTok TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work verified_publisherAxios - Sara Fischer In his first public statement as CEO of TikTok, former Disney exec Kevin Mayer says the company will be releasing that code that drives its …
Business InsiderWhole FoodsWhole Foods employee says workers were sent home for refusing to remove anti-racism shirts as the company faces protests... verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Hayley PetersonA Connecticut Whole Foods store prohibited a group of its employees on Saturday from wearing shirts printed with the phrase "racism has no place here," an employee of the store said. When employees showed...
