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QI Research CEO and Chief Strategist Danielle DiMartino Booth discusses the impact of government intervention on small businesses.  Small businesses are still struggling as they continue to face a host of economic challenges. Shilpa Sankaran, founder of Wisconsin-based KOSA Ayurvedic Spa, opened up her shop before the pandemic. She’s battled through difficult times. From coronavirus-related … Read more

(Note language in paragraph 26 that some readers may find offensive) By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai testified this week in court for the first time in a landmark national security trial accusing him of endangering China’s national security by colluding with … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ever since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has tried to deter the west from supplying Kyiv with ever more potent weaponry by threatening retaliation and escalation of the war. On each … Read more

When venture capitalist Jeremy Liew and his wife were dating, they talked about how one day they would take a year to travel the world. “That’s how we’d know we’d made it,” Liew says. He went on to become a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and during his first 16 years at the firm, Liew … Read more

Employers impose certain restrictions on vacation days during peak work periods such as the festive season. These restrictions could entail anything from reduced off days and longer work hours to restricted lunch breaks. An employer’s notice to employees about restrictions on vacations, however, went viral on Reddit for all the wrong reasons. The employer took it … Read more

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) has been in sizzling form on the stock market so far in 2024, rising an impressive 76% as of this writing. This occurred thanks to a turnaround in the company’s fortunes due to the growing demand for its server solutions used for mounting artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The stock’s 2024 rally … Read more

SAVERIO MARFIA/Getty Images Entertainment Is “‘Glicked” the next “Barbenheimer” phenomenon for Hollywood? That’s what studios are hoping for as Wicked from Comcast’s (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures’ (NASDAQ:PARA) Gladiator II hit U.S. theaters on Friday. The much-awaited movies, like 2023 blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer, have

LONDON (Reuters) -British police are investigating a suspect package in the vicinity of the U.S. embassy in London and have put cordons in place as a precaution, authorities said on Friday. “We’re aware of speculation online about an incident in the vicinity of the US Embassy in Nine Elms,” London’s Metropolitan Police said on X. … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Northvolt’s chief executive has resigned a day after Europe’s big battery hope filed for bankruptcy in the US. Peter Carlsson took responsibility for the dramatic collapse during a town-hall meeting with employees on Friday morning, … Read more