Leo Lee and his wife, Lydia, relied on takeout and delivery services to keep their Los Angeles restaurant, RiceBox, afloat during the pandemic. Source: Leo Lee Like many small business owners around the country, Leo and Lydia Lee saw the earnings from their Los Angeles restaurant nosedive when the Covid pandemic hit. They also had
Thomas Barwick | DigitalVision | Getty Images Women entrepreneurs have long gotten a small slice of the venture-capital funding pie. Female VC leaders are trying to change that. In fact, opportunities abound for “wontrepreneurs,” said Julie Sandler, managing director at startup studio and venture capital fund Pioneer Square Labs, based in Seattle. She spends most
You probably didn’t go to a live concert in 2020. The majority of festivals, fairs and sporting events were canceled across the globe in 2020 to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Alex and Kelsey Carroll’s company, Toss Up Events, designed and operated unique fan experiences at major sporting events across the country. Cancellations
Tetra Images | Tetra images | Getty Images Over the last year, lawmakers have passed many tax breaks for businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, the Biden administration is encouraging the hardest-hit businesses to take advantage of one especially large tax break, the employee retention credit. The employee retention credit was first established in
Ariel Skelley | DigitalVision | Getty Images A lack of paid leave and access to quality child care has long been an issue for working parents in the U.S., advocates argue. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the issue, with some parents — mainly women — ditching their jobs to care for their kids. A
Shirley Chung prepares a dish at the Michael Muller’s HEAVEN, presented by The Art of Elysium, event on Jan. 5, 2019 in Los Angeles. Phillip Faraone | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images When the pandemic hit, chef and reality TV star Shirley Chung quickly pivoted her restaurant business to manage through the crisis. Dealing
People enjoy a stroll through Historic Annapolis Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland on April 29, 2021. Marvin Joseph | The Washington Post | Getty Images For Mitch Hughes, chief executive of Vizz, a construction management software firm he founded in 1996, the pandemic created ideal conditions for acquisitions. Vizz, which runs a visualization platform
SINGAPORE — For Fiona Loh, juggling marketing, accounts, customer service and product development is all in a day’s work. The 28-year-old swapped computers for cookies last year, when she quit her stable job as a technology product manager for a bank to run her own bakery business, Whiskdom. “Every day I felt something nudging within
A family waits inside an ambulance with a patient who tested positive for COVID-19 ,for admission at a hospital in Kolkata, India, on 10 May 2021. Debarchan Chatterjee | NurPhoto | Getty Images The world’s attention is now on India, the epicenter of the global pandemic as the country battles a deadly second wave of
In this article GNRC Generac CEO Aaron Jagdfeld told CNBC Monday that the backup power generator company expects to benefit from the adoption of 5G wireless technology. “We think that that’s a space that is going to grow tremendously over the next five years,” he said in an interview with Jim Cramer on “Mad Money.“
Waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines will not help to address the global supply shortage, the co-founder of a Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company told CNBC. The push for patent waivers is “political theater” and does not inherently allow others to create safe and effective vaccines, which are already very difficult to make, said Jake Becraft,
EXETER, ENGLAND – MARCH 18: A sign is displayed in the window of a high street bookmakers listing the cancelled sports events on March 18, 2020 in Exeter, England. Dan Mullan/Getty Images LONDON — Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, gambling companies in Britain have increasingly looked to shore up and expand their online
A patient and paramedics outside ambulances at the Royal London Hospital in London, during England’s third national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. Picture date: Thursday January 21, 2021. Yui Mok – PA Images | PA Images | Getty Images LONDON — The coronavirus variant that first emerged in India could become the dominant
The Lamborghini 2020 EVO RWD. Robert Frank | CNBC Italian supercar maker Lamborghini announced Tuesday that it will launch a fully-electric car in the second half of the decade. Presenting a transformation program, Lamborghini, owned by German firm Volkswagen, laid out “a roadmap to the decarbonization of future Lamborghini models and of the Sant’Agata Bolognese site,”
A health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Senja-Cashew Community Centre Vaccination Centre in Singapore on March 8, 2021. Wei Leng Tay | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore has approved the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children aged 12 to 15, authorities announced on Wednesday. Previously,
Virgin Galactic’s carrier aircraft releases its spacecraft Unity during a glide flight test. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic delivered first quarter results after the market closed on Monday, announcing that it has yet to set a target date for its next spaceflight test, which the company previously planned for this month. “Timing of next flight test
In this article PLTR Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies Inc., pauses during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir, the maker of software and analytics tools for the defense industry and large corporations, reported 49% revenue growth for its first quarter,
In this article POSH Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images Poshmark on Wednesday reported first-quarter revenue growth of 42%, as consumers turned to the secondhand site to refresh their wardrobes without breaking the bank. “There’s a real meaningful shift as people are preparing for reopening,” said Manish Chandra, founder and Chief Executive, in a
In this article BTC.BS=-USS BTC.CB= The logo for Coinbase Global Inc, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron and others at Times Square in New York, U.S., April 14, 2021. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Coinbase shares were down about 4% in after-hours trading on Thursday, despite revenue and net income
In this article DASH Sign reading We Deliver With Doordash, referencing the Doordash food delivery service, San Ramon, California, September 12, 2020. Smith Collection/Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images DoorDash on Thursday reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss, blaming a short-term shortage of delivery drivers as consumer demand outstripped its forecast. But the company raised