Month: September 2020

An indoor farming start-up that heralds itself as the future of agriculture and has Martha Stewart on its board announced Tuesday it is going public through a reverse merger, the latest in a series of blank-check deals during the coronavirus pandemic.   Kentucky-based AppHarvest is merging with special purpose acquisition company Novus Capital Corp., while picking up $475 million
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People wearing facemasks wait to buy vegetables at a market vegetable stall as essential retailers reopen from the coronavirus (Covid-19) shutdown. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Smaller-sized businesses have been battered during the six months of the coronavirus pandemic but are feeling confident about their ability to withstand a second wave, according to
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Rising gas prices on the Ethereum network have significantly cut into users’ profits. Luckily, if reported correctly, you can convert these burdensome gas fees into tax savings.  What Is Gas? Gas is the transaction fee you have to pay to the Ethereum network to execute transactions. Gas is measured in gwei, a subunit of the
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It started as a seemingly perplexing case of pneumonia.  From a wet market in Wuhan, China, Covid-19 has spread to nearly every country on the globe in just under nine months. It’s overturned daily lives, shuttered businesses and schools, and disrupted the world economy. It’s infected more than 33 million people worldwide and has killed
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Ethan Brown, founder and chief executive officer of Beyond Meat, center, celebrates with his wife Tracy Brown, center left, and guests during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday
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Bang Si-Hyuk is know as the mastermind behind K-pop sensation BTS, since he brought the boy band together in 2013. On Monday, his company, artist management firm Big Hit Entertainment, set its IPO share price at 135,000 South Korean won, which is approximately $115 per piece, valuing the company at over $4.1 billion.  That means Bang, its
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A protester blocks the street leading to the Washington, D.C., home of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., demanding the extension of unemployment aid, on July 22, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment benefits that helped the poorest Americans weather the coronavirus pandemic are in danger of ending, throwing the
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Bobbi Brown, who left her eponymous cosmetics company in 2016, is now founder and CEO of Beauty Evolution. Source: Ben Ritter Navigating the pandemic hasn’t been easy for business owners. Serial entrepreneur Bobbi Brown is no exception. The beauty icon, who sold her eponymous cosmetics company to Estée Lauder in 1995, is now founder and
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