The UK economy has recorded growth in both January and February, making it overwhelmingly likely that last year's shallow recession is already over.
NEW YORK (AP) — Record numbers of people are starting new businesses, and more and more of them are women and minorities, according to a new study. New business applications jumped in 2020 as the pandemic started, and have continued to be filed at a record pace. More than 5 million applications were filed in […]
Note: Survey responses were collected from April 8 to April 15.
Two babies with the names of country legend Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter, were born in the same hospital completely by coincidence.Johnny Cash Davis was born on April 10 at the Huntsville Hospital in Alabama, followed by June Carter Clark, who came into the world just hours later. The babies even napped next to each other in the hospital's nursery as their parents recovered just rooms away from each other, with no idea the other existed.While neither of the parents named their newborns...
BestColleges reports on the growing number of women leading business schools.
Smartphone activations in the US are seeing the lowest share of iPhones in six years, according to data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP). The analysts report the numbers each quarter but use a 12-month period to eliminate seasonality (iPhone sales are always the weakest just before the new generation launches and the strongest just after). For most of 2023, Apple held steady at around 40%. However, it share began to slip at the end of the year and is now down to 33% at the...
A majority of the businesses surveyed, almost three in five, have been running for at least six years, and 15% were operational for over a quarter of a century.
Record numbers of people are starting new businesses, and more and more of them are women and minorities, according to a new study. New business applications jumped in 2020 as the pandemic started, and have continued to be filed at a record pace. More than 5 million applications were filed in 2021 and 2022 and […]
Hostmore, the owner of the TGI Fridays UK franchise, has reached an agreement for a proposed all-share acquisition of TGI Fridays in the US for a value of £177m.
(The Center Square) – An index measuring business conditions in Missouri increased 7.2 percentage points, or 15%, in March compared to February. While business conditions in the Midwest continued to show neutral growth ratings in Creighton University’s Mid-America Business Conditions Survey, Missouri climbed to 53.8 on the index in March after posting 46.6 in February. The index uses the same methodology as the national Institute for Supply Management. It ranges between 0 and 100...
Pamela Price, the Alameda county district attorney, is reviewing 35 death penalty cases after judge cites ‘pattern of misconduct’A California district attorney’s office is reviewing more than 30 death penalty cases after it unearthed records suggesting prosecutors deliberately excluded Jewish and Black jurors from capital trials.Pamela Price, the Alameda county district attorney, whose jurisdiction includes Oakland, announced Monday that her office had uncovered handwritten notes by former...
TikTok says a ban on its platform in the U.S. hurts free speech and American businesses. The social media platform made this argument Sunday (April 21), one day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would outlaw TikTok in the U.S. if the company’s China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t divest its stake within a year. “It is […]