The Washington, D.C. headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (Image credit: Polina LVT/Shutterstock.com)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce led a nationwide coalition of trade associations and business groups in a letter opposing the Trump administration's executive order on diversity and inclusion training.
The order and subsequent implementation memos looks to purge diversity training in the federal workplace of concepts deemed by the administration to be "divisive." The order extends to federal contractors – the requirements kick in for private sector contractors on Nov. 21, 2020, according to the Department of Labor.
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Innovative Business Models Driving Platform and Architecture Strategies for Autonomous Vehicles
Dublin, Oct. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Disruptive Technologies with Innovative Business Models Driving Platform and Architecture Strategies for AVs, 2020" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The study covers the key platforms that OEMs need to focus on, as they shift their strategy to data-centric revenue models from traditional vehicle-centric business models. As every OEM strategizes their individual path toward CASE convergence, the expected evolution of the platforms are explored, along with major industry partnerships.
Pandemic makes American Dream harder for immigrant business owners - News - southcoasttoday.com
FALL RIVER — The American Dream hasn’t been canceled for local immigrants who own small businesses.
But the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has made the promise of prosperity all the more challenging for them to achieve.
Despite the devastating impact COVID-19 has had on many brick and mortar businesses across the country, immigrant owners of Fall River convenience stores and food markets say they’ve managed to keep their heads above water.
At Philadelphia's last men's suit company, loyalty keeps the business going
"There is no economic reason for this business to exist," says Richard Seitchik, the owner of W. Seitchik & Sons, the last wholesaler of men's suits in Philadelphia.
When his grandfather founded the company in 1898, Philadelphia dominated the men's clothing business in America. Seitchik, now 82, came to work for the family business in 1963 when it operated out of a nine-story building at 19th and Allegheny. The North Philadelphia neighborhood was dotted with factories that turned out everything from fishing reels to porch swings. Seitchik & Sons had so many orders that it employed 375 people, all of them unionized.
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Beyond slogans: A path forward for Houston's Black business community - HoustonChronicle.com
Forty Black female entrepreneurs across Houston logged into Zoom on a Wednesday and Thursday in August, waiting to pitch their products and services to representatives from Fortune 500 companies, including the San Francisco tech company Salesforce, the Boston conglomerate General Electric and the Houston company Waste Management.
Five of the entrepreneurs walked away with letters from the representatives stating interest in working with their companies. All of them left with an expanded network of contacts in the Black business community that could lead to partnerships, advertising opportunities and introductions to larger companies seeking to diversify their suppliers.
Meet the woman who's built an online fashion business from Anchorage's vintage and second-hand
Aspen Raney wears a 70s-vintage calf hair coat with a 90s cord trousers and a t-shirt featuring The Fonz. Raney markets vintage clothing through Kuration Collective, her online shopping company. Photographed in Anchorage on October 8, 2020. (Marc Lester / ADN)
Aspen Raney spends hours each week at Anchorage's thrift stores, on the hunt for vintage clothes. She looks through every single item on the rack, picking up garments, assessing stitching and checking tags.
First commercial passenger flight from UAE lands in Israel | St.
FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, file photo, an official stands at the door of an Israeli El Al airliner after it landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The first commercial passenger flight to Israel by a carrier from the United Arab Emirates landed near Tel Aviv on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, further cementing a normalization deal between the two countries.
Etihad Airways Flight No. 9607 landed at Israel's Ben-Gurion international airport just after 7 a.m. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner departed for Abu Dhabi later Monday with an Israeli travel and tourism delegation on board, according to an Etihad statement.
Amazon's Alexa Is Driving IT Managers Crazy …And Other Small Business Tech News
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
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Be careful if you're employing voice-enabled devices either in your office or at remote worker's homes that are using applications that access your corporate networks. The technology is still relatively unsecure, according to many IT managers, and could pose problems.
Not sure why this is so surprising. E-commerce sales are up more than 30 percent from last year and, with so many working from home, internet traffic has skyrocketed. Where there's eyeballs there's ads. For your business marketing in 2021, digital advertising continues to be something you should be seriously considering, even expanding.
Happening on Twitter
Anti-government protesters in Thailand planned to gather again in Bangkok on Sunday despite a ban on large groups https://t.co/o0yZnxcrgb business (from New York and the World) Sun Oct 18 09:50:03 +0000 2020
Top epidemiologists and business groups are critical of what they say is the Andrews government's overly cautious a… https://t.co/qtbbdG7wMD theage (from Melbourne, Australia) Sun Oct 18 20:00:29 +0000 2020
British business groups sound alarm over no-deal Brexit https://t.co/8elb7u6Rkb FinancialTimes (from London / New York / Hong Kong) Sat Oct 17 23:28:56 +0000 2020
British business groups sound alarm over no-deal Brexit https://t.co/23trjmqKEP FT (from London) Sat Oct 17 23:26:39 +0000 2020
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