by Admin | Apr 5, 2021 | News
For business, 2020 was a long experiment on working from home, and many employers and employees found a lot of benefits. Greater productivity, no commute, cheaper for both parties, and healthier, according to the New York Times. But many tech workers say that leaving...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Companies, News
In 1966, Cyrus Poonawalla founded the Serum Institute of India (SII) to make drugs which were, at the time, hard to domestically source in India. The first products they made included treatments for tetanus and snake venom, and the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus and...
by Admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Companies, News
The co-founders of fecal testing startup uBiome are having a crappy month. On March 18, 2021, they were indicted in a California federal court on charges of healthcare fraud, wire fraud, and related conspiracy charges. And now the Securities and Exchange Commission is...
by Admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Companies, News
Texas and Mississippi made a splash last week when the governors of both states retracted executive orders requiring mask wearing in public spaces. But businesses in those states are still requiring customers to wear masks, provoking a fresh slew of outrage from those...
by Admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Companies, News
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative is the first of likely several Texan power coops to file for bankruptcy in the wake of February’s incredibly destructive winter storm. According to Brazos’s court documents, the company was on solid financial footing when it entered...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Companies, News
Just Energy, a middleman provider of electricity and natural gas, is based in Canada, but it does a huge amount of business in Texas. Well, perhaps for not much longer. On February 22, 2021, Just Energy announced in a press release that the company stands to lose...
by Admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Companies, News
Detroit automaker General Motors reported a pre-tax profit of over $9 billion in North America for 2020, despite an industry-wide slowdown of car sales due to the coronavirus pandemic and even a 40-day union strike which cut into the company’s third- and...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2021 | Companies, News, Women of Business
In 2020, just a few days after the election in November, Rudy Giuliani held a press conference at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia. Nothing unusual about that. Except that it was Four Seasons Total Landscaping (FSTL), not the Four Seasons Hotel. No relation. And no...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2021 | Companies, News
In July 1995, Jeff Bezos launched a book-selling website called Amazon. His first office was his garage, and his computers used so much power he couldn’t vacuum without blowing a fuse. Early company meetings were held in the local Barnes and Noble, since they had the...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2021 | Companies, News
In 1975, pharmaceutical researchers Robert Gyurik and Vassilios Theodorides developed a medication to treat a host of parasitic worm infestations in sheep. Known generically as albendazole and under a handful of brand names such as Alworm and Albenza, it was approved...
