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What Germany’s Soft Reopen Portends For The US Market
What Germany’s Soft Reopen Portends For The US Market
April 23, 2020  |  Coronavirus

What if an economy had a grand(ish) reopening — and almost everyone decided to sit it out?  Such is the question German officials are facing this...

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Amazon CEO Bezos Seeks COVID-19 Testing For Staff
Amazon CEO Bezos Seeks COVID-19 Testing For Staff
April 16, 2020  |  Retail

With the first move toward a system of checks on workers around the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the eCommerce retailer is creating COVID-19...

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The Handshake Is Dead – Long Live The Curtsy
The Handshake Is Dead – Long Live The Curtsy
April 11, 2020  |  Coronavirus

The handshake has a long and curious history as far as greetings go. Most historians place the first instance back in the 5th century BCE...

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Telehealth Service Puts A Retail Spin On Its Business Model
Telehealth Service Puts A Retail Spin On Its Business Model
April 10, 2020  |  Retail

The rapidly evolving telehealth category has a new business model. Fruit Street – a virtual one-stop-shop digital diabetes prevention program (DPP) – has partnered with...

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Healthy Snack Company Rewrites Its Wellness Story
Healthy Snack Company Rewrites Its Wellness Story
April 07, 2020  |  Retail

When the chapter is finally written on business during the COVID-19 crisis, there will be stories of the companies that simply fell victim to the...

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Jamie Dimon Back At JPMorgan’s Helm Following Heart Surgery
Jamie Dimon Back At JPMorgan’s Helm Following Heart Surgery
April 02, 2020  |  Personnel

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer at JPMorgan Chase, is back behind his desk in his home office on Thursday (April 2) following emergency heart surgery...

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Florida’s Spring Breakdown
Florida’s Spring Breakdown
March 20, 2020  |  Coronavirus

The deluge of college students that flood into Florida each year for spring break is such a regular occurrence that they’ve become something of a...

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Elon Musk Offers To Make Ventilators Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Elon Musk Offers To Make Ventilators Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
March 19, 2020  |  Coronavirus

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to make good on his offer to manufacture ventilators to...

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Can One Startup Fill The US Coronavirus Testing Gap?
Can One Startup Fill The US Coronavirus Testing Gap?
March 19, 2020  |  Coronavirus

While there is no shortage of individual negative effects of the COVID-19 epidemic, the ongoing uncertainty of the pandemic’s effect on people in the U.S....

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