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MORNING BUSINESS REPORT: Unemployment update, spring break worries, pandemic spending spree | News
The Morning Business Report is sponsored by Access Health CT Small Business. (WFSB) – Here is the Morning Business Report for March 5. Unemployment Weekly jobless claims in Connecticut rose slightly last week. Just over 6,700 people filed for first time jobless benefits, an increase of 585. For perspective, a year ago, the same week …
Insurance Technology Firm Hippo to Merge With SPAC in $5B Deal
Text size Hippo Enterprises offers homeowners insurance. Courtesy of Hippo Hippo Enterprises is the latest insurtech to combine with a special purpose acquisition company. On Thursday, Hippo said it was merging with Reinvent Technology Partners Z (ticker: RTPZ) in a deal that values the insurance technology company at $5 billion. Launched in 2015, Hippo offers …
Technology stocks lead indexes lower as yields resume climb | National
A man wearing a protective mask walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in Tokyo. Stocks advanced in Asia on Wednesday after a wobbly day on Wall Street, when the S&P 500 gave back …
Latest news on coronavirus cases and vaccines
Here are some of the biggest developments Monday: The U.S. is recording at least 67,300 new Covid-19 cases and at least 2,010 virus-related deaths each day, based on a seven-day average calculated by CNBC using Johns Hopkins University data. The following data was compiled by Johns Hopkins University: Global cases: More than 114.22 million Global …
SIMPLICITYBI JOINS BDO CANADA’S LIXAR TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS
Toronto, March 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BDO Canada today announced the acquisition of Calgary-based technology services firm SimplicityBI, effective March 1, 2021. The SimplicityBI team will join BDO’s 500-people-strong Lixar Fueled by BDO technology business, increasing the organization’s presence in Western Canada and further expanding their digital transformation services coast-to-coast. Calgary-based SimplicityBI is a data …
Fan-out Wafer Level Packaging Market 2021 Business Scenario – Amkor Technology Inc., Lam Research Corp, Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology Co. Ltd. – KSU
Fan-out Wafer Level Packaging market reports provide a detailed analysis of area market expansion, competitiveness, global and regional market size, and growth analysis. It also offers recent developments such as market share, opportunity analysis, product launch and sales analysis, segmentation growth, market innovation and value chain optimization, and SWOT analysis. The latest reports on the …
Watertown’s New York Air Brake building a ‘bridge to future’ in train brake technology | Business
WATERTOWN — A city business will be riding in the forefront of the anticipated growth of the passenger rail system industry in the coming years because of its technological advancement regarding brakes. Watertown-based New York Air Brake along with its sister company, Westminster, Md.-based Knorr Brake Company, have developed the EE-26™ brake system, engineered for …
Fort Myers Beach business owners prepare for spring break crowds
FORT MYERS BEACH Business owners on Fort Myers Beach say more visitors have already come to town ahead of Spring Break. They discuss their plans to manage these crowds. The sights and sounds of spring break arrived earlier than expected. Kathy Doherty is a Sunset Beach Tropical Grill hostess. “They’re here early. They’re …
Police investigating 3 business break-ins in Murfreesboro
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) – The Murfreesboro Police Department is investigating multiple break-ins at businesses that happened on Monday, February 2. Police say BurgerIM, Mission BBQ and Bad Daddy’s along Medical Center Parkway were broken into. A concrete cinder block was used to break the front or side glass doors of the businesses in order to …
Facebook ‘looking at’ facial recognition technology: Andrew Bosworth
Andrew Bosworth AKA Boz, an advertising expert for Facebook, gives a talk at the Online Marketing Rockstars marketing trade show in Hamburg, Germany, 03 March 2017. Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa | usage worldwide (Photo by Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images) Christian Charisius | picture alliance | Getty Images Facebook’s head of hardware on Thursday confirmed …
