Dating Apps Stay Popular As Pandemic Drags On
How will 'chipageddon' affect you?
Carmakers and consumer-gadget companies are struggling to source enough computer chips.
Michigan's small liberal arts colleges are in fight for survival
A drive to increase enrollment at Albion College was successful in bringing more students to campus. It didn't solve Albion's problems.
Valentine's Day Roses Surge in Price Amid Covid Disruptions : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR
The Covid-19 lockdown sent the flower market into free fall, but recently, flower prices have been picking up again. Who are the culprits behind this? Our old friends supply and demand, of course!
Stock in ID’s Hecla, nation’s largest silver producer, jumps | Idaho Statesman
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COVID-19 drives sales bump for Benton Harbor-based high-end furniture maker
The nationwide move to working from home has been devastating to such makers of office furniture as Steelcase Corp. of Grand Rapids.It has been a boon, though, for Vincent Leman, the owner of a small furniture business in Benton Harbor. Sales jumped 60 percent last year, all of that increase coming…
'You can't prepare for this': Fredi the PizzaMan in Melvindale overwhelmed after review
A pizza maker for 40 years, Fredi Bello has sold out of pizza daily this week and his autism foundation has raised more than $26,000
Force hasbro mattels 2020 earnings
Disney Plus Pops to 95 Million Paid Subscribers - Variety
Disney Plus notched 94.9 million customers worldwide as of Jan. 2, 2021, continuing the streaming service's meteoric rise.
Taylor Swift Drops Re-Recording of Early Song
Epic Games Releases Tool to Help Developers Create Hyper-Realistic Characters
Epic’s new MetaHuman tool lets you craft realistic faces inside a browser - The Verge
Are we out of the uncanny valley? The MetaHuman Creator tool wants to help.
GM's Mary Barra: Semiconductor chip shortage won't disrupt truck production
GM could take up to a $2 billion hit to pretax profits this year due to a chip shortfall, but will protect production of profitable pickups and SUVs.
How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect Employment and Family Income | Congressional Budget Office
This interactive tool allows users to explore how various policies to increase the federal minimum wage would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.
The Hidden World of Pricing: Uber, Trulia, Etsy, Superhuman & More
A look inside the pricing playbooks used by dozens of unicorn companies with Pete Flint and Madhavan Ramanujam.
‘It is not a living wage’ say advocates for higher minimum pay in Michigan
Some researchers and economists say a minimum wage raise will likely benefit workers in Mich., while opponents argue that small businesses may suffer
Ford F-150 production hit by chip shortage | Fox Business
Ford will cut the number of shifts at the factories that produce its best-selling F-Series trucks for one week due to the global semiconductor chip shortage affecting the auto industry.
Peeps will be back for Easter after a 9-month hiatus - CNN
This year isn't turning out to be all bad. Peeps are back in production.
PayPal profit tops estimates as pandemic drives online spending to record levels | Reuters
PayPal Holdings Inc beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday, with a coronavirus-driven shift to online shopping and digital transactions driving record levels of payment volumes for both the quarter and the year.
Private jet company Wheels Up to go public in a $2 billion SPAC deal
The deal vaults the seven-year-old start-up past many of the industry's longtime leaders in the race to become the Uber or AirBnb of private aviation.
GM to idle 3 plants in North America due to semiconductor shortage
GM will idle three assembly plants in North America for one week due to the ongoing semiconductor shortage that has already hit Ford and Stellantis.
As America devours more wings than ever, restaurants double down
America's appetite for chicken wings appears unending and restaurant chains of all sorts are rushing to feed it.It might seem impossible, but the pandemic actually made one of the country's favorite menu items even more popular. After governments forced restaurants to close and curtail indoor…
27 Places Raising the Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour - The New York Times
The new year brings another round of increases, nearly a decade after workers started campaigning for higher pay.
The New Year Will Bring More Transparency In Hospital Prices : NPR
Daily chart - Nearly half of America’s states are increasing their minimum wage in 2021 | Graphic detail | The Economist
But only three will provide a “living wage”
With nearly a year's worth of supply for sale, downtown Detroit's condo market is oversaturated
For nearly two years, Detroit has had an excess of condominiums for sale on the market. To developers, that means an added challenge in an already tough building climate plagued with long-rising construction costs eating into profit margins — not to mention economic upheaval caused by a…
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TikTok Surpasses Facebook as Most Time-Consuming Social Media App of 2020
Loves Furniture went bust. Then its HQ landlord jacked up its asking price.
The former Art Van Furniture headquarters property in Warren has been listed for sale for $65 million. That's an eye-catching number because just a few weeks before, its new tenant, Loves Furniture Inc., filed for Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy protection, the property was listed for $53.9 million…