‘A viral Facebook post nearly blew up our business’
Joanna Jensen, founder of skincare brand Childs Farm, shares advice for start-ups for our CEO Secrets series.
Joanna Jensen, founder of skincare brand Childs Farm, shares advice for start-ups for our CEO Secrets series.
Amazon is unveiling its first buy now, pay later checkout option for the millions of small business owners who use its online store, CNBC learned exclusively. The tech giant confirmed Thursday that its partnership with Affirm is expanding to include Amazon Business, the e-commerce platform that caters to companies. Affirm shares jumped 19% on the…
Terrifying tales from passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight after a gaping hole opened in the aircraft prompted many people to wonder: How did everyone survive? The midair accident Friday could have been much worse, experts say, if the plane had already reached its higher cruising altitude, where the decompression could have happened with much…
Merck & Co.has struck a deal to buy clinical-stage immunotherapy company Harpoon Therapeutics for about $680 million. Merck on Monday said it will pay $23 a share in cash for Harpoon, more than double Friday’s closing price of $10.55 for the South San Francisco, Calif., company. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights…
Ignacio E. Lozano Jr. loved to tell the story about arriving in Los Angeles in 1948 from the University of Notre Dame with a journalism degree, taking a look at his family’s business — and immediately fearing it was doomed. His father, Ignacio E. Lozano Sr., was a pioneering publisher who founded a Spanish-language daily…
“Testing is important and extracting people who test positive is important, but people rely too heavily on testing. They’re lulled into a false sense of security by thinking that everyone on set is tested so they are safe, when the testing is only a snapshot. It’s just a moment in time,” the Warner Bros. employee…
After the Indian government banned 59 apps owned by Chinese firms last week, the videoconferencing app Zoom is fighting xenophobic rumors on social media that it is Chinese-owned. It’s not — the company is American and is scrambling to let Indians know. In a blog post on Tuesday, Velchamy Sankarlingam, Zoom’s president of product and…