Google Alert - finance

	finance As-it-happens update ⋅ October 9, 2020
	NEWS
	The New York Times Labor Board Accuses Google Contractor of Violating Union Rights The New York Times A federal agency issued a complaint this week against a contractor hired by Google and accused it of violating its employees' labor rights, marking the latest flash point in a long-running struggle between workers and technology companies. In the complaint ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal IBM's Red Hat Deal Laid Foundation for Split of Company Into Two Pieces Wall Street Journal International Business Machine Corp.'s acquisition of software company Red Hat last year helps underpin the technology and economics behind IBM's decision to restructure. IBM on Thursday said it would spin off a unit that manages clients' IT infrastructure ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Dow futures rise more than 100 points as traders await for clues on new fiscal stimulus CNBC U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday night as Wall Street continued to search for clarity surrounding a new potential fiscal aid bill. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 121 points, or 0.4%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.4% and 0.3%, ... Flag as irrelevant
	TechCrunch Amid a boom in SPACs, few women investors TechCrunch If you've been following the SPAC boom, you may have noticed something about these blank-check vehicles that are springing up left and right in order to take public privately held companies. They are being organized mostly by men. It's not surprising, given ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters OPEC, in major shift, says oil demand to plateau in late 2030s Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - World oil demand will plateau in the late 2030s and could by then have begun to decline, OPEC said on Thursday, in a major shift for the producer group that reflects the lasting impact of the coronavirus crisis on the economy and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Forbes Affirm's IPO Announcement Signals Fintech Strength Forbes As its business booms, pay-later fintech upstart Affirm confidentially filed to go public on Thursday—less than a month after it lined its pockets with $500 million in fresh venture capital. PayPal Co-Founder & Affirm CEO Max Levchin Visits ″Countdown To The ... Flag as irrelevant
	Deadline Ex-TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer, Former Disney CFO Tom Staggs & Shaquille O'Neal Join Forest Road SPAC For Media ... Deadline There's a SPAC born every minute – today a new one called Forest Road Acquisition registered with the SEC to raise $250 million and hunt for media and entertainment deals with executives and advisors from former TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer and former Walt ... Flag as irrelevant
	FierceTelecom Comcast notches 10G milestone with a trial of 1.25-Gig symmetrical speeds in Florida FierceTelecom Comcast is out of the 10G starter blocks with a trial in Florida that features symmetrical speeds of 1.26 Gbps on a live production HFC network. The trial, which took place in a Comcast employee's home in Jacksonville, Florida, was the fruition of Comcast's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Minneapolis Star Tribune Target HQ employees won't return to downtown offices until at least June 2021 Minneapolis Star Tribune Target has told its Twin Cities corporate employees that the majority of them can expect to continue working virtually through at least June 2021 because of the continued threat of the coronavirus. Target is the largest employer in downtown Minneapolis, with ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Short-term pandemic-related costs ate into Domino's profit line, CEO says CNBC "The reality is it's just more expensive to operate, you know, in the coronavirus world that we're living in now," Domino's Pizza CEO Ritch Allison said after posting third-quarter earnings. "Combine that with a cheese price increase over the course of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette West Virginia wins $500 million hyperloop certification facility Pittsburgh Post-Gazette About 18 months ago, West Virginia set a goal of establishing the state as a cradle for developing new technology. That effort bore its largest fruit so far Thursday when Virgin Hyperloop One chose an 800-acre site in the Mountaineer State for the $500 million ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Here's a first look at Google's plans for its massive San Jose campus CNBC Google released renderings for its massive downtown San Jose campus, which will face final approval in spring 2021. The company's mixed-use campus, which is in coordination with the city of San Jose, is a departure from prior campuses as more than half ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS Denver Colorado's Boom Supersonic Reveals Prototype Of XB-1 Commercial Jet CBS Denver (CNN) – There's been very little good news to report in the aviation industry over the past few months, with airplanes grounded or pushed into early retirement. However, Boom Supersonic — which is based in Centennial, Colorado — is going all out to show ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post JPMorgan puts $30B toward fixing banking's 'systemic racism' Washington Post CHARLOTTE, N.C. — JPMorgan Chase said Thursday it will extend billions in loans to Black and Latino homebuyers and small business owners in an expanded effort toward fixing what the bank calls "systemic racism" in the country's economic system. Flag as irrelevant
	Niche Gamer Coinbase is losing scores of staffers over ban on political activism Los Angeles Times Coinbase Inc., the cryptocurrency exchange, is losing about 60 employees who balked at a management mandate barring political activism at work. Chief Executive Brian Armstrong said Thursday in a blog post that about 5% of Coinbase's employees had ... Flag as irrelevant
	Motley Fool Why Piedmont Lithium, Sunrun, and CBAK Energy Technology Stocks All Just Dropped 10% Motley Fool Alternative energy stocks are making headlines again Thursday -- this time, not in a good way. Tic-tac-toe, three in a row, we're watching shares of start-up lithium miner Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ:PLL) fall 13.1% in 1:55 p.m. EDT trading, while Chinese ... Flag as irrelevant
	cleveland.com Tens of thousands of absentee ballots in Summit County delayed a week cleveland.com AKRON, Ohio – Tens of thousands of prospective voters in Summit County who were expecting to receive absentee ballots this week will have to wait until at least Tuesday because of equipment problems experienced by a Cleveland-based printer, the county ... Flag as irrelevant
	Motley Fool Moderna Doesn't Plan to Enforce Coronavirus Vaccine Patents During Pandemic Motley Fool Drugmakers live and die by the exclusivity provided by patents on their medications. Generic competition or even a branded competitor can substantially cut a company's market share. But Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) is putting society ahead of its bottom line. Flag as irrelevant
	Motley Fool Carnival's Q3 Report Shows Rough Sailing Isn't Over for the Cruise Line Motley Fool Major cruise company Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE:CCL) reported its third-quarter 2020 financial results today, along with a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on the subject, revealing the extent to which COVID-19 continues impacting ... Flag as irrelevant
	Taunton Daily Gazette Stimulus failure likely leads to chronic unemployment, Boston Fed chief says Taunton Daily Gazette BOSTON -- The federal government's failure to approve another stimulus bill endangers economic recovery from the pandemic-inflicted recession, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston cautioned on Thursday, echoing a similar warning the Fed's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Dallas Business Journal AT&T's WarnerMedia set to cut thousands of workers amid COVID-19, WSJ says Dallas Business Journal AT&T's WarnerMedia is set to make more cuts, according to a new report. The unit is reducing costs by as much as 20 percent amid the pressures of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The overhaul ... Flag as irrelevant
	Digital Commerce 360 Levi's expands Red Tab sales to 500 Target stores Retail Dive Levi's this week said it is expanding sales of its premium Red Tab merchandise to 500 Target stores by the end of next year and has also returned its budget Denizen line to the mass merchant's racks. The Red Tab effort debuted a little over a year ago in ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox Business Dick's hiring up to 9000 seasonal workers, gearing up for holiday rush Fox Business Dick's Sporting Goods announced Thursday it will hire up to 9,000 season workers nationwide this holiday season. Continue Reading Below. Recruiting efforts for its stores and distribution centers will kick off on Oc.t 14 during the company's "National Signing ... Flag as irrelevant
	AM 950 KOEL PBR cannabis-infused seltzer launches in California Food Dive Pabst Labs announced the initial launch of its Pabst Blue Ribbon Cannabis Infused Seltzer to customers in California at dispensaries and online, according to an emailed release. Pabst Labs is a licensed cannabis company founded by former Pabst Brewing ... Flag as irrelevant
	Seattle Times Seattle Genetics takes a new identity Seattle Times After more than two decades that saw it become this region's largest biotechnology company, Seattle Genetics is no more. But that's only because it has changed its name. The new name is SeaGen, it said in a regulatory filing Thursday. Flag as irrelevant
	RADIO.COM Illinois man charged with price-gouging in mask sales The Ridgefield Press CHICAGO (AP) — A northern Illinois businessman was charged Thursday with price gouging customers seeking to purchase of protective masks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago announced Thursday. Flag as irrelevant
	KSDK.com VERIFY: Was the antibody cocktail used to treat President Trump developed using human embryonic stem cells? KSDK.com The antibody cocktail used to treat President Donald Trump for COVID-19 is getting a lot of attention on social media. Some users are claiming Regeneron - the company that developed the treatment - used human embryonic stem cells to create it, but is this ... Flag as irrelevant
	Inside INdiana Business Hoosier Entrepreneurs Win Ernst & Young Award Inside INdiana Business STATEWIDE - Ernst & Young LLP has announced the winners for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020 Midwest Award, including five from the Hoosier state. The firm says the longtime award program honors "successful business leaders whose ambitions ... Flag as irrelevant
	OilPrice.com How AI And Blockchain Are Driving The Energy Transition OilPrice.com Many people who have increasingly despaired at the adverse effects of changing climate have probably mused: Why can't we go completely green? Why are fossil fuels so hard to quit? The answers, as usual, are legion: Renewable energy is too expensive, ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Points Guy Risk of coronavirus on planes less than getting struck by lightning, airline group says The Points Guy Let us know your thoughts on the state of travel. Take our TPG poll! Travelers concerned about contracting the coronavirus on a flight can breath at least a small sigh of relief following new evidence that there is a very low risk of catching COVID-19 onboard an ... Flag as irrelevant
	businessjournaldaily.com DiamondPeak Shareholders to Vote on Lordstown Motors Merger Oct. 22 businessjournaldaily.com LORDSTOWN, Ohio – DiamondPeak Holdings Corp. stockholders will meet remotely Oct. 22 to approve the proposed business combination with Lordstown Motors Corp., Lordstown Motors reported Thursday. New York-based DiamondPeak, a special ... Flag as irrelevant
	wkdzradio.com Team Kentucky Fund Going Strong wkdzradio.com During the Thursday COVID-19 news briefing, Kentucky Lt. Governor Jacqueline Coleman announced the Team Kentucky fund has handed out more than $1 million. Coleman said donations have been very strong for the fund. Audio Player. Flag as irrelevant
	Harrogate Advertiser Harrogate Bus Company set to trial new electric technology Harrogate Advertiser Harrogate restaurant extends Eat Out to Help Out offer to thank customers after 'challenging year'. The first high-tech battery powered bus to take part in trials on the forward-thinking bus firm's busy route 1 linking Harrogate and Knaresborough was unveiled ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS Chicago Remdesivir Trial: Patients Started Recovering By Day 15 CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) — Patients on Remdesivir, a drug President Donald Trump was given for COVID-19, started recovering by day 15, according to a medical trial done in Chicago at Northwestern and the University of Illinois. That is faster than patients given a ... Flag as irrelevant
	CruiseCritic.co.uk Celebrity Cruise Captain Kate Claps Back at Misogyny on Tik Tok CruiseCritic.co.uk (12:10 p.m. EDT) -- Captain Kate McCue has become a fan favorite both on the Celebrity Cruises ships she runs and on Tik Tok, where she has 318,500 followers. And this week, she used her. video platform. to clap back at a misogynist commenter, who ... Flag as irrelevant
	CPO Magazine Another Reason to Avoid Ransomware Payments: US Treasury Warns That It Might Violate Sanctions CPO Magazine Organizations that are unexpectedly snagged by a ransomware attack are often tempted to simply pay whatever is demanded of them and hope for the best; the potential downtime and recovery cost often appears to be much worse. The US Treasury is now ... Flag as irrelevant
	KHON2 Mayor Caldwell gives updates on Honolulu's coronavirus efforts KHON2 HONOLULU (KHON2) — Mayor Kirk Caldwell held a news conference Thursday to discuss the City's progress in containing the spread of COVID-19 since the launch of Oahu's "COVID-19 Recovery Framework" on Sept. 24. [Hawaii news on the go–LISTEN to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Conway Daily Sun Marijuana sales legal in Maine today, but not Fryeburg Conway Daily Sun AUGUSTA, Maine — Legal marijuana sales for adults 21 and over will begin tomorrow today in Maine but it still won't be happening in towns like Fryeburg. "Nearly four years after Mainers approved marijuana legalization at the ballot box, the will of the people ... Flag as irrelevant
	News8000.com - WKBT The Salvation Army & JCI La Crosse collaborate on Toys for Tots News8000.com - WKBT LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – Two nonprofit organizations are working together to promote collaboration and community to bring joy to hundreds of children and financial relief to families in need. The Salvation Army's Angel Giving Tree and JCI La Crosse's ... Flag as irrelevant
	thepress.net Striking New MDX Interior Design Teased Ahead of Global Debut thepress.net TORRANCE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Acura today provided a glimpse of the dramatic new interior of the fourth-generation MDX ahead of its global debut, in prototype form, Oct. 14. The MDX Prototype presages the arrival of the new, ... Flag as irrelevant
See more results | Edit this alert

You have received this email because you have subscribed to Google Alerts. Unsubscribe | View all your alerts

Receive this alert as RSS feed

Send Feedback