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Trump Administration Sees Trillions in New U.S. Manufacturing Investments

1 week ago Business, Featured, National Business News, National News, News

Since President Donald J. Trump took office, U.S. manufacturing, production, and innovation have seen a surge in domestic investment, with corporations and foreign entities pledging trillions of dollars to expand operations on American soil. Major technology, automotive, pharmaceutical, and industrial companies have announced multi-billion-dollar investments in the United States during President Trump’s second term. Highlights Read More…

Stocks End Week Near Records as Rate-Cut Bets Bolster Gains

1 week ago Business, Featured, National Business News, National News

U.S. stocks closed the week within striking distance of all-time highs, buoyed by renewed expectations that the Federal Reserve will begin cutting interest rates in September and a flurry of upbeat corporate and economic news. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose roughly 1% for the week, briefly touching a fresh intraday record on Friday before Read More…

Kodak Faces Debt Deadline Amid “Going Concern” Disclosure

2 weeks ago Business, Featured, National Business News

Eastman Kodak Co. is facing heightened scrutiny after its latest 10-Q filing flagged a “going concern” risk tied to more than $470 million in term loan and preferred stock obligations due within the next 12 months. The disclosure, while required under accounting rules, signals that the company’s existing cash position is insufficient to cover upcoming Read More…

Stocks Rally as Tech and Earnings Power Wall Street

4 weeks ago Business, Featured, National Business News

The S&P 500 rose 2.3% for the week, its best five-day stretch since early June. The Nasdaq Composite surged 3.1%, driven by blowout results from Alphabet (GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA), while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added a more modest 1.4%, hampered by lagging industrials and healthcare names. Tech Earnings Deliver — and Then Some Read More…

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Google and Facebook are building the fastest trans-Pacific cable yet

9 years ago Business, Featured, National Business News

Google and Facebook are teaming up to build a 120 Terabits per second (Tbps) submarine cable that will connect Los Angeles with Hong Kong. The two companies are working with Pacific Light Data Communication — a wholly owned subsidiary of China Soft Power Technology that’s relatively new to the sub-sea cable game. Once the Read More…

Wyoming tax code is most competitive in U.S.

9 years ago Business, Featured, Home Featured, National Business News, Regional News

Wyoming has the most competitive tax code in the nation according to the 13th annual State Business Tax Climate Index, released today by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. The report measures how well-structured each state’s tax code is by analyzing over 100 tax variables in five different tax categories: corporate, individual income, sales, property, and unemployment Read More…

HERE’s new traffic services will bring together live data from millions of cars

9 years ago Business, Featured, National Business News

Crowdsourcing live traffic data has been one of Waze’s key competitive advantages in navigation software for a while, but Germany’s HERE might give it a run for its money with new services that pull traffic info from cars on the road. The data gathered by Here’s upcoming traffic services, which it’s set to debut during Read More…

Uber teams with Sears on new rewards program for drivers and riders

9 years ago Business, Featured, National Business News

Uber today announced yet another rewards program for its drivers and riders, this time in partnership with retailer Sears and its “Shop Your Way” loyalty platform. The program offers drivers points redeemable for products at Search, Kmart and Lands End, as well as discounts on vehicle maintenance and repairs at Sears Auto Centers. Meanwhile, riders who Read More…

The EpiPen Tycoon game is a gentle reminder of the monster we’ve made of our stock market

9 years ago Business, Featured, National Business News

There’s an EpiPen Tycoon computer game. In it, you are the CEO of Mylan, Heather Bresch, the daughter of a US senator who has been handed a drug that lays a golden egg — EpiPen, an emergency anaphylaxis treatment that stops people’s throats from closing in the event of an allergic reaction. It’s Read More…

8 leadership lessons from the book Facebook’s HR chief recommends to all new managers

9 years ago Business, Featured, National Business News

When Lori Goler, Facebook’s Vice President of People, joined the company in 2008, she got to work making the company a “strengths-based” organization. It’s a term based on Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman’s 1999 bestselling management guide “First, Break All the Rules.” The coauthors were Gallup analysts at the time and drew insights from 25 years Read More…

Inside one of the fastest-growing clothing companies that’s making some millennial moms rich

9 years ago Business, Featured, National Business News

Women are going nuts overLuLaRoe, a clothing brand that has catapulted from near obscurity to cult status in the past couple of years. The brand, which sells brightly-colored shirts, leggings, and dresses, isn’t available in stores or on a company website. Instead, tens of thousands of people across the US — many of whom are Read More…