Month: February 2021

People volunteer for Covid-19 surveillance testing using the Quest Diagnostics self administered PCR test on on July 12, 2020 in Livingston, Montana. William Campbell | Getty Images Quest Diagnostics said Thursday that continued high demand for Covid-19 testing helped drive record revenues and earnings for the company in the fourth quarter and full year 2020.
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Jell-O was a household staple in the United States throughout the 20th century. Once the star of dinner parties, Jell-O is now served as shots to college students. From 2009 to 2018, Jell-O dropped $371 million in sales. We unpack what lead to its rise and fall. MORE RISE AND FALL: The Rise And Fall
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It has been called a telecoms group, a semiconductor group, an investment group – even a hedge fund – but what exactly is SoftBank? The FT explains why the Japanese multinational is like a jigsaw puzzle, with the enigmatic founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son at its core See if you get the FT for
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Before the pandemic, volunteers for Creighton University’s VITA program worked closely with clients to file their tax returns for free. Tom Purcell Creighton University’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, or VITA, program has a new look this year, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of in-person meetings, where people sit face-to-face with students volunteering to help
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At some point during the first quarter of Sunday’s Super Bowl LV, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is set to appear on around 100 million television screens in a 30-second spot he bought to tout “the world’s first all-civilian mission” to space — a SpaceX mission he is paying to command. The mission, dubbed Inspiration4, is
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A view outside a Kohl’s store in Miramar, Florida. Johnny Louis | Getty Images Kohl’s on Thursday released preliminary fourth-quarter results, anticipating sales to be down about 10% year over year, and same-store sales dropping 11%. Its shares were up about 1% in premarket trading. Chief Executive Michelle Gass said digital sales represented more than
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Though billionaire investor Mark Cuban has warned people to be cautious with cryptocurrency, he recently said digital assets — from digital goods to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin — will be the future of business. And Cuban has invested in cryptocurrency himself, both in business and personally. In fact, Cuban has an extensive cryptocurrency wallet, which he shared on
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Evan Spiegel, CEO of SNAP Inc. Stephen Desaulniers | CNBC Snap’s stock fell more than 5% in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings despite beating Wall Street’s expectations on earnings, revenue and user growth. But the company provided a first-quarter adjusted EBITDA forecast that was much lower than analysts’ consensus
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Florida, Fort Myers, Publix, supermarket Entrance. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images In Florida, hundreds of neighborhood grocery stores have become a cornerstone of the state’s Covid-19 vaccination program. Publix was tapped by the governor’s office in early January to administer shots to
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German payments company Wirecard was the darling of the nation’s fintech industry. Then came the admission that almost $2 billion of the company’s funds had gone missing. The scandal led to the sudden disappearance of its chief operating officer, Jan Marsalek. With his mysterious links to the Austrian secret service and Russian mercenaries, Bloomberg investigates
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