McDonald’s is considering selling part of a company it acquired to boost digital orders, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. McDonald’s bought Dynamic Yield for more than $300 million, according to WSJ. The Israel-based company, which operates independently within McDonald’s, states on its website that...
Many businesses have not accurately reported the impact of the pandemic on their bottom line, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday (Feb. 23). Financial metrics don’t have to follow generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), which makes it hard for investors to get a good picture...
U.S.-based banking software company Alkami Technology is planning an initial public offering (IPO) that could be valued at $3 million, Reuters reported on Monday (Feb. 22). Alkami has also chosen Goldman Sachs to lead the preparations for the IPO. The company, based in Plano, Texas,...
Operators of U.S. private businesses reported that 2021 is off to a good start overall, but signs of inflation are on the rise, and the jobs market outlook is somewhat gloomy, according to a press release from research firm IHS Markit. The findings were generated...
ViacomCBS is planning a March 4 rollout of Paramount+, its new streaming service rebranded from CBS All Access, the company said in a press release on Tuesday (Jan. 19). The newly rebranded entertainment platform will be launched first in the U.S. and Latin America, followed...
“The future comes one day at a time,” statesman Dean Acheson, architect of the Cold War’s Truman Doctrine once said. While the post-war issues of the 1940s and ’50s clearly carried their own unique set of global challenges, it could be argued that the fallout...
Spurred by accelerated use amid the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom is considering the integration of calendar and email tools to better compete with Microsoft and Google, The Verge reported on Wednesday (Dec. 23), citing the Information. This year, the Silicon Valley video conferencing startup saw its...
Over half of U.S. advertising spending this year, or 51 percent, will go to Big Tech, such as Amazon, Google and Facebook, as the pandemic drastically affects the industry, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). This is the first time that milestone has been...
In the seemingly glacial crawl marking the return to normalcy across various corners of the business world… …there may be green shoots budding, or at least on the horizon, for the business event space. On the other hand, any real rebound would take a while amid...