TUCSON (KVOA) – If you have a question for the IRS, you could be waiting months for a response. Some Tucson businesses have been left with few answers and plenty of concerns. Owning a business in 2020 seems to be like being in the middle of a dark tunnel with a dead flashlight with a hole in your […]
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COVID-19 relief package has a stimulus sweetener for CEOs: business meal deductions
The average taxpayer is looking at a check for $600 as part of the new COVID-19 stimulus package that’s set to pass Congress and get signed into law. At the same time, corporations will get a tax break enabling them to write off the cost of business meals from their […]
‘I’m Trying To Survive:’ Pacifica Yoga Studio Owner Won’t Close
PACIFICA, CA — Pacifica Beach Yoga has become a place of controversy, igniting both local and online outrage as owner Thomas Antoon decided to keep his doors open. Antoon has continued to hold indoor classes at the hot yoga studio where masks are not required. Antoon has been openly defying […]
BBB offers safe online holiday shopping tips for parents
(KVOA) – With Christmas around the corner, some people have gotten their holiday shopping out of the way while others may be turning to last-minute online gifts. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has offered parents tips for getting their online holiday shopping done safely and efficiently. Guard your privacy. Proceed […]
COVID-19 relief package has a stimulus sweetener for CEOs: business lunch deductions
The average taxpayer is looking at a check for $600 as part of the new COVID-19 stimulus package that’s set to pass Congress and get signed into law. At the same time, corporations will get a tax break enabling them to write off the cost of business meals from their […]
Meet Whitney Wolfe Herd, the 31-year-old CEO of the female-led dating app Bumble that just reportedly filed for a $6 billion IPO
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. Getty/Vivien Killilea Once a victim of online harassment, Whitney Wolfe Herd is working to make the internet a kinder place for women with female-led dating app Bumble. Before Bumble, Wolfe Herd cofounded rival dating app Tinder, but left the company two years later and filed […]
Mallow Box dessert shop in Plano gets creative with s’mores bowls, shakes and ‘mallookies’
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The Mallow Box, a dessert shop serving gourmet marshmallows in nearly every way imaginable, opened its second location in Legacy Food Hall in August. After a year of pop-ups at Stonebriar Centre’s Nordstrom and a brief experiment with a kiosk at the Shops at Willow Bend, the Mallow Box’s first […]
Why shop closures in Tier 4 areas are ‘catastrophic’ for retailers
The fact that the new restrictions landed just two weeks after the end of the most recent lockdown ended will only magnify their effects. Many shop owners and executives seemed optimistic that the strength of sales since the 2nd December reopening might help them recoup losses, but closing again so […]
Small business allies decry Congress’ short-term fix
Congress is about to unleash hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to small businesses, a long-awaited injection of relief that some employers, economists and advocates say won’t be nearly enough as the economy faces a worsening winter slowdown. Most of the $325 billion that lawmakers are proposing for small […]
Walmart now offers free at-home pick-up for returns, one-upping Amazon
Walmart has started offering a new service to make the returns process easier for customers. Walmart shoppers will now be able to start returns online, print their shipping label at home, and leave the parcel at their door for FedEx to pick up. The service is free and available anywhere […]
5 Stocks That Could Make You Rich in 2021
The stock market spoiled us in 2020. Sure, we had the fastest 30% drop in history. But year to date, the S&P 500 is up 15% as of Dec. 18. That’s an above-average year for the market as a whole, but there have been feast-or-famine returns from individual stocks. Some […]
FanDuel Bets on Charles Barkley to Spur Interest in Sports Wagering on TNT
FanDuel spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on commercials that surround big sports broadcasts. Now it wants to make sports-wagering — the activity at the core of its business — a bigger part of the studio discussions that are also such an essential part of the sports-TV experience. Charles Barkley, […]
Diversity and inclusion make IT stronger
Throughout most of Hans Keller’s professional life, he was taught not to talk politics or engage in provocative topics at work. Yet in the midst of a global pandemic, when George Floyd’s brutal death opened a fresh wound for Americans regarding racial inequality and social justice, Keller, now CIO at […]
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley scraps hope of profit leap as Tier 4 forces him to close stores before Christmas rush
TipRanks The 5G Revolution Could Send These 3 Stocks Higher 5G is here. The new networks are online and expanding, and customers – individual consumers, institutional users, and industrial applications – are starting to take advantage of the new technology. The advantages of 5G are already well-known: faster connections, more […]
China’s Online Shopping Addiction Is Killing Its Green Packaging Drive
(Bloomberg) — If you worry about all the waste generated by the annual rush of holiday shopping and gift giving, it’s nothing compared to the mountains of discarded packaging that comes from a single event in China. On Nov. 11 each year, the world’s biggest consumer market goes into overdrive […]
In Connecticut, Covid-19 Forces One in Three Small Businesses to Close
About one in three small businesses have closed their doors in Connecticut since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, a setback for a state that never fully recovered from the last recession. That number puts Connecticut behind New York, New Jersey and the nation as a whole, where about one […]
Real Madrid president backs soccer changes post-COVID
Real Madrid’s goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, controls the ball in front Eibar’s Pape Diop during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Eibar and Real Madrid, at Ipurua stadium, in Eibar, northern Spain, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) Alvaro Barrientos AP MADRID Long linked to the creation of a […]
Out of work during pandemic, Riverside woman starts charcuterie business, Mel’s Boozy Bites
While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of tough times for people all over the country, one local woman decided to make a big career change. After graduating from Cal Poly Pomona in the spring and finding herself out of a job during the pandemic, Melissa Balderama of Riverside […]
Google hit with 2 new antitrust lawsuits from 4 private publishers
Applico CEO Alex Moazed on the DOJ’s lawsuit against Google as the company calls it ‘deeply flawed.’ Several private publishers filed two antitrust lawsuits against Google this week as the company comes under increasing scrutiny over its advertising and search practices. Dozens of state attorneys general and the Justice Department […]
Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria Looks Back & Ahead With One Regret
Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria As Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria nears the end of his ten-year stint in the job, he is publicly acknowledging one regret: the school’s failure to make more progress on racial equity. In an interview with the […]