"The leading economic indicator is … the virus." More than one analyst has put it to us this way. As we try to understand and quantify this unprecedented global economic collapse — and now the attempted restart — we're following key metrics for COVID-19 and the broader economy.
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It’s still the question on everyone’s minds: What’s the latest on the extra COVID-19 unemployment benefits?
As of now, those $600-a-week payments will stop at the end of July. House Democrats want to extend the payments. Senate Republicans have proposed giving the unemployed 70% of their most recent salary by this October, when state unemployment offices have had time to reconfigure their computer systems to do those calculations. Until then, jobless workers would just get another $200.
And here's another article:
Shifting the Black hair care industry back into Black hands - Marketplace
On Jan. 1, 2009, Anderson and her husband, John, embarked on a yearlong journey to spend their money at only Black-owned businesses. The couple wanted to do something drastic, Anderson explained, “out of love for our community,” although she “had no idea how hard it would be.” For example, there was “only one Black-owned grocery store in all of Illinois, and that grocery store closed five months before we finished our year.
And now, years later, Anderson has launched the Black-owned hair care challenge , encouraging consumers to spend their money at Black-owned beauty-supply stores and purchase Black-owned beauty products. The focus on Black hair care is a starting point for Anderson, because it’s a culturally specific industry with products that are for Black people, yet few Black people own the supply stores or the companies that make the products .
Cologix Launches Access Marketplace 3.0 | Colorado | gjsentinel.com
Cologix Access Marketplace enables automated connectivity to major cloud providers across our Platform—on-demand, in minutes. The latest 3.0 updates offer new features and a full virtual Marketplace for customers to quickly find and directly connect to more than 1,600 businesses in Cologix's robust ecosystem.
Cologix's software-defined interconnection (SDI) solution enables simple, scalable, secure connectivity in minutes via a self-service portal to connect to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services® Direct Connect, Google Cloud Platform™, Microsoft® Azure ExpressRoute, IBM Cloud™ and Oracle® FastConnect through 25 direct cloud onramps. Customers can customize private connectivity to one or multiple clouds from an automated portal to virtually and dynamically provision circuits.
Volkswagen builds a marketplace to push digital manufacturing
Digital marketplaces are now in vogue as a place to bring business buyers and sellers together to research and purchase physical goods.
But Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest automotive manufacturer and the maker of VW, Audi and other vehicles, also sees a digital marketplace as an ideal way to bring together buyers and sellers of software applications and move the entire process of digital manufacturing even further into the mainstream.
Volkswagen, in conjunction with Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com Inc., is building what it bills as the "ultimate app store" for industrial software applications. The store will make available from multiple automotive industry suppliers software apps designed to increase speed and efficiency in developing parts and manufacturing vehicles at the car maker's 61 production plants and factories around the world.
Not to change the topic here:
BigID Launches First App Marketplace for Privacy & Data Discovery
The BigID App Marketplace builds on BigID's App Framework and Discovery-in-Depth data intelligence foundation to empower customers to both extend and action data insights. BigID's first-of-its-kind Discovery-in-Depth technology provides enterprises the most complete and comprehensive data insights for data privacy, protection and perspective in the market.
MarTech Series (MTS) is a business publication dedicated to helping marketers get more from marketing technology through in-depth journalism, expert author blogs and research reports.
This year has been a "roller-coaster ride" for automakers - Marketplace
Industry watchers will learn more this week about how the coronavirus has affected the auto industry, as the big players report their second-quarter earnings. GM on Wednesday morning released its results , posting a narrower-than-expected loss.
The pandemic forced Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler to close factories and halt production. At the same time, people stopped driving and buying cars while they were under stay-at-home orders.
Analysts say this could be one of the most difficult quarters for carmakers in modern history.
Special Broadcast: Marketplace Three-Part Series on The Economy | New Hampshire Public Radio
As coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country, Marketplace is probing the current state of the U.S. economy and looking ahead to what a future economy may look like. A three-part special this summer asks the question: " The Economy, What Now?
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Each special will run at 1 p.m., in the time slot usually occupied by the second hour of Here & Now .
Molly Wood of Marketplace Tech will host the broadcast and share how current innovations might help us transition to our post-pandemic future, and how the crisis has underscored the inequity in internet access.
A Butchery, Marketplace, and Cafe Called Kinship Opens Fall 2020 at the VA-HI Building in
Kinship opens this fall and combines the conveniences of a market, butcher, cheese counter, cafe, and wine shop under one roof at the VA-HI building
Kinship, a combination butcher shop, marketplace, and cafe, opens this fall in the VA-HI building in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood. According to the press release, Kinship will also feature a cheese and wine shop and to-go meal boxes.
Co-owners Myles Moody and Rachael Pack plan to source meats, produce, and other products for Kinship as locally as possible, including dealing directly with local farmers and food producers.
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