Francisco Medina, manager of Tequila Museo Mayahuel restaurant, measures the distance between tables for social distancing in the outdoor dining space in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday May 20, 2020.
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New numbers show how much help Sacramento area businesses are getting from the Paycheck Protection Program, the federal government's biggest initiative to assist small businesses through the coronavirus pandemic.
Adam Steinhauer, editor of the Sacramento Business Journal, joined CapRadio host Steve Milne to talk about the new data.
Many things are taking place:
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Black-owned business see impact of national Blackout Day
A national effort that started on social media months ago, has made its way into many Ozarks businesses.
This national effort started with what's called Blackout Tuesday. In June, it was a day the music industry highlighted on social media to protest against racism, police brutality, and injustice. It turned into Blackout Day on Tuesday, July 7. It was a day people were asked not to spend money, but if they did, do it at black-owned businesses.
Black Americans spend nearly $1 trillion at major retailers every year, which doesn't count anyone else of different races supporting. Although there aren't any total numbers from Julys Blackout Day yet, the recent call to action helped spark conversation and change the narrative of black-owned companies.
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This column was originally published on Roger Waldron's blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author.
The original Alliant SB contracts were awarded back in 2009 and expired in 2019. Alliant SB was a "Best-in-Class" contract, as designated by the Office of Management and Budget.
With the cancellation of the follow-on procurement, there is a significant, potentially long-term, gap in federal market opportunities for small IT services firms. Although GSA's announcement highlighted plans for a new, enhanced small business GWAC program, there little insight regarding GSA's implantation plan or timeline.
Many things are taking place:
Nasdaq grabs new record as stocks post weekly gains | Fox Business
Allianz SE chief economic adviser Mohamed El-Erian believes the market will overlook the second-quarter earnings report as many companies are anticipating a drop in revenues.
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The Nasdaq Composite, which pulled down its third straight record this week, was lifted by fresh highs in Apple, Amazon and Netflix.
Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 369.07 points or 1.44 percent, while the S&P 500 added 1.05 percent.
Facebook bug tanks iOS apps including Spotify, Pinterest, Tinder, PUBG - Business Insider
Spotify, Pinterest, Tinder, and other popular apps crashed for at least two hours on Friday morning for many iOS users thanks to a Facebook bug.
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Business Insider — along with several Twitter users — noticed early on Friday that the Spotify iPhone app crashed on opening.
People on social media also spotted similar issues with Pinterest, Tinder, PUBG Mobile, Mario Kart, and many others.
The problems did not affect Android users. It isn't clear how many iOS users experienced the outage.
California entrepreneurs launched a business to fly over L.A. traffic.
RavnAir Group's two regional airlines will continue flying in Alaska after a Southern California commuter service struck a last-minute deal to buy their operating certificates out of bankruptcy, outbidding a group of veteran Alaska transportation executives.
FLOAT Shuttle will pay $8 million to acquire the federal certificates held by the two Ravn-operated airlines, PenAir and Corvus. The deal also includes six of nine de Havilland Dash-8 planes, plus a single Saab 340, that Ravn had unsuccessfully tried to sell at auctions earlier in the week.
On diversity, business can learn from government
It's often said that government should run more like a business. But business could take lessons from government in one area that's getting a lot of attention these days: diverse leadership.
Despite years of corporate diversity initiatives, boardrooms and C-suites remain heavily white and male. Yet government bodies as large or larger than many companies seem to have no trouble finding diverse candidates for top positions.
An expanding national conversation over racial inequities in society and the economy has cast a harsh light on the monochromatic, largely male corporate world. Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered public companies in Illinois to disclose gender and ethnicity data to the state and outline how board picks are made by January 2021. Early filers—there are less than a dozen—show there's plenty of room to grow: 21 percent of board seats were held by women, and about 13 percent by nonwhite people.
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