by Admin | Jan 17, 2020 | Companies, News
Impossible Foods, the company behind the viral Impossible Burger available in grocery stores, Burger King, and other restaurants, isn’t satisfied stopping there. The company’s next trick? Impossible Bacon. “We’re meant for everybody,” sayid Impossible Foods CFO David...
by Admin | Jan 10, 2020 | Companies, News
David Calhoun hasn’t even officially been made the CEO of Boeing yet, but he’s already hard at work trying to rebuild the bridges the company has burned in recent years. After last year’s fiascos with the 737 Max and issues with its Starliner, CEO Dennis Muilenburg...
by Admin | Jan 3, 2020 | Companies, News
In April 2018, California law enforcement broke the news that they’d solved a long-cold case – that of the Golden State Killer, a serial killer and rapist who committed more than 13 murders and 50 rapes in the ‘70s and ‘80s. It was a major coup for law enforcement to...
by Admin | Dec 19, 2019 | Advice
We’ve all had bad jobs. Maybe they were the wrong fit. Or maybe the employer had fallen into one of the traps of toxic corporate culture that are so very common. Here’s a short list of question to ask yourself about a company which will tell you if it has a toxic work...
by Admin | Dec 9, 2019 | Companies, News
The forces driving demand for and supply of private capital are changing. More companies across sectors are staying private for longer, and as a result, there has been a significant rise in larger, later-stage deals being funded by the growth equity market. In...
by Admin | Nov 29, 2019 | Companies, News
The last Toys R Us store closed in June of 2018 after the company went through bankruptcy and liquidation. Viral memes went out of Geoffrey the Giraffe looking for a new job, but the defunct company maintained that their story wasn’t over yet. They seem to have been...
by Admin | Nov 25, 2019 | Companies, News
The new Starbucks Reserve Roastery in the center of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile looks like a steampunk-themed art house. The 35,000-square-foot space is welcoming, a restful palace of calm greens, pale oak, bronze, and slate, with a coffee-bar so deeply-retro-futurist...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2019 | Companies, News
Dean Foods is the largest dairy company in the United States, after a 94-year history of mergers and takeovers of other dairy businesses, mostly in the Midwest. Along the course of a long and troubled legal history, the company has been fighting an anti-monopoly suit...
by Admin | Nov 11, 2019 | Companies, News, Technology
For half a decade, Google’s Wear OS (also known as Android Wear) has struggled along in the world of fitness trackers. A year after its launch, it trailed well behind Fitbit, Jawbone, and Apple Watch, with just 10% of the market share. Google partnered with dozens of...
by Admin | Nov 4, 2019 | Companies, News
Ethan Brown has big goals. The CEO of vegetarian meat-substitute company Beyond Meat, Brown took his company public in May this year. His plan to grow the company into a $40 billion giant is under way, and he’s not concerned by stumbles like this week’s 19% drop in...
