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GRAHAME Skinner of Hipsway is unique. For in 40 years as a rock journalist, I can’t think of anyone else who has ever compared becoming part of…

May 3, 2021 7:44 am An imploding commercial real estate market. Workers disgruntled over a return to the office. Vaccine hesitancy. Aversion to crowded places. As the final days of the COVID-19 pandemic crest on the horizon, employers are left wondering how they should run their business, what risks they should be willing to take and what kind of pain could likely be felt. All told, the business landscape coming out of the pandemic will have winners and losers. Take the real estate market fo...

Share: Does crime pay? Wall Street Crime and Punishment is a weekly series by Benzingas Phil Hall that chronicles the bankers, brokers and financial ne’er-do-wells whose ambition and greed takes them in the wrong direction. In December 1935, F. Donald Coster sat amid the splendor of a luxury Manhattan hotel suite, surrounded by the leaders of the Republican Party. His Washington-connected hosts were eager to evict Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House and assumed that a prominent and suc...

Share: CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has inaugurated CVS Health Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund aimed at creating partnerships with early-stage companies focused on improving the accessibility and affordability of health care. What Happened: According to the Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based company, the fund will begin with $100 million allocated for investments. The initial targets for the fund will encompass companies in digital health care. The fund is a continuation of earlier investments...

CVS Health Debuts $100M Venture Capital Fund For Early-Stage Health Care Companies Benzinga 4/29/2021 © Provided by Benzinga CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has inaugurated CVS Health Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund aimed at creating partnerships with early-stage companies focused on improving the accessibility and affordability of health care. What Happened: According to the Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based company, the fund will begin with $100 million allocated for investments. The init...

Share: Mohawk Group Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: MWK), a New York City-based technology-enabled consumer products company, is rebranding as Aterian Inc. (NASDAQ: ATER), effective Friday before the market open. What Happened: Founded in 2014, the company is known for its proprietary end-to-end cloud-based platform Artificial Intelligence Marketplace Ecommerce Engine (AIMEE), which leverages machine learning, natural language processing and data Analytics to manage products at scale across major onlin...

Share: The old saying that politics makes strange bedfellows was reaffirmed this year as the nation’s major corporations generously donated to the inaugural committee of the president who promised to jack up their taxes and increase their regulatory oversight. What Happened: The Joe Biden inaugural committee raised more than $61 million, which is a bit unusual considering the presidential inauguration activities were low-keyed and mostly virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden...

Fixed home loans have never been cheaper, which raises the question of whether now is the time to think about locking in, or could they get cheaper still? The Business asked the experts what they think.

saranacbo@hotmail.com Last week’s column, about the chopping down of Paul Smith’s College’s major landmark and school logo, the Leaning Pine, had some inaccuracies in it. I said that because the college prez, Dr. Buxton, hated everything about the state, he wouldn’t have had the miscreant arrested, but would’ve punished him with instant expulsion. On that count, I was two-thirds wrong and one-third right. First, there wasn’t one miscreant, but two. And second, one of them was arr...

Private Equity Firm Floats $250M for Developers Building on Cardano and Polkadot Last Updated: 02 March 2021 Crypto-facing investment fund FD7 Ventures has announced plans to open an Indian office to cater to developers working on blockchain projects Cardano and Polkadot. FD7 Seeks To Tap Into India’s Hot Engineering Talents The office which will be based in Bangalore- India’s engineering hotbed- will share close proximity with the Asian nation’s premier engineering in...