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“Hayward Open for Business” is a new video series that highlights the resilience and diversity of our small business community. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, these entrepreneurs endured unprecedented economic disruptions. Closures of non-essential businesses, prohibitions on indoor dining and rapidly changing consumer spending patterns beginning in March 2020 led to over 450 Hayward businesses closing permanently or temporarily by the end of 2021. Today, the new normal is setting in and many of these businesses are reopening and bouncing back. To thrive again, they need your support. Business owners have asked the City of Hayward Economic Division to help jumpstart their economic recovery by encouraging customers to return to shopping and dining locally. Using the federal American Rescue Plan Act funding, this City has partnered with Cal State East Bay’s College of Business & Economics to produce a series of promotional videos to featuring small businesses. The university’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) program students are filming and producing 10 episodes that spotlight Hayward businesses new and old. Subscribe to the City’s social media channels or check this page as videos are released each month. Join us and learn about these small businesses’ stories of perseverance, the unique goods […]

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Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money ( here’s how ). In some cases, we receive a commission from our partners , however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. The rebranded Capital One Venture X Business card will be available through Capital One Relationship Managers. Capital One will soon introduce the new Capital One Venture X Business Card . This card is a rebrand of the Capital One Spark Travel Elite card, which was only available through Capital One Relationship Managers. It’s very similar to the personal Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card, except it’s a charge card, not a credit card. Read Insider’s guide to the best small-business credit cards . Get the latest tips you need to manage your money — delivered to you biweekly. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Last year, Capital One quietly […]

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Amid the standard roll call of earnings sheets released in recent weeks, nearly every diagnostics developer marked present has reported a severe drop-off in COVID-19 test sales for the fourth quarter of calendar year 2022. That includes Siemens Healthineers , Abbott , Thermo Fisher and, most recently, BD, which hopped on the bandwagon Thursday by reporting a nearly 83% drop in its COVID-related revenues for the period—stylized as the first quarter of its fiscal 2023. That segment brought in a relatively measly $32 million for the quarter, barely one-sixth of the $185 million it earned for the same three months the year prior. And while BD was expecting COVID test sales to dry up throughout the year, it seemingly didn’t think the drought would hit so soon. In its first-quarter earnings report (PDF) Thursday, the company was forced to slash its full-year forecast for those sales in half: Though it kicked off the year expecting COVID-only diagnostics to rake in between $125 million and $175 million throughout 2023—which would already have represented only a quarter of 2022’s $511 million take—that guidance has now been lowered to somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. As was to be expected, the […]

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Do you have layers and layers of bosses, reader? I’m Diamond Naga Siu, and long chains of command are pretty common at tech companies. But middle managers could be the latest layoff target in tech, especially after Mark Zuckerberg’s latest reported comments . After so many people were cut, those middle managers now have fewer workers to oversee. This makes them a natural next layoff target . I honestly feel bad for middle managers. As the name implies, they’re stuck in the middle, neither worker nor upper-management. And they need to try keeping everyone happy (meanwhile, a study even found that they’re more likely to be anxious and depressed ). Yikes. But if Zuck is on point, far fewer people could hold these precarious roles — at least at Meta. Anyways, I’m just a worker trying to share 10 interesting stories a day. So let’s dive into some tech. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here . Download Insider’s app here. 1. Leaked Amazon memo reveals new hiring strategy. The e-commerce giant is only hiring students and new grads for entry-level software positions, per an internal note reviewed by Insider. The change took effect January 25, 2023. […]

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Twitter owner Elon Musk proposed charging $100 a month for access to Twitter’s API. Elon Musk proposed charging $100 a month for access to Twitter’s API. He said the $100 fee along with ID verification for Twitter’s API would clean up "bad" bots. Free API was being "abused badly" by bot scammers, Musk tweeted. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops — delivered daily to your inbox. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Elon Musk on Thursday suggested charging $100 a month for access to Twitter’s application program interface (API). In a tweet , Musk said free API was being "abused badly" by "bot scammers & opinion manipulators." It was easy for 100,000 bots "to do bad things" when there was no cost or verification process in place for API access, he said. "Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly," Musk added. His proposal […]

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Inside an Amazon Fresh store. Amazon said Thursday that it will close certain Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores. It also said it would cut jobs across this area of the business. Critics say the focus on tech rather than retail experience in stores is putting off shoppers. Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Amazon said Thursday that it plans to close a number of Amazon Fresh grocery and Amazon Go convenience stores and pause new openings. The announcement, which was made during its fourth-quarter earnings call, came just weeks after the e-commerce giant said it will cut 18,000 jobs in certain areas of the business. Amazon confirmed earlier this week that these cuts would impact jobs across its grocery arm, including employees that work on the tech and design of these stores. The two announcements cast doubt over […]

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Police at the scene after the steering wheel fell of a brand new Tesla. Prerak Patel said his Tesla steering wheel fell of while he was driving down a New Jersey highway. The driver said he’d received the Model Y just five days prior to the incident. Patel said he was told a bolt was missing from the steering wheel connection. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops — delivered daily to your inbox. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Just five days after it was delivered, the steering wheel fell of a brand new Tesla Model Y. Prerak Patel, the car’s owner, was driving down a highway near Woodbridge Mall in New Jersey with his wife and kids when the incident occurred. "I was driving a normal speed in the left lane when all of the sudden I had this loose wheel in my hand," Patel told Insider. "By […]

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While traditionally viewed as a hardware company, Apple has made major strides to expand its services business over the past few years. The reason behind the services push is quite obvious: as smartphones, tablets and other devices have matured and breakthrough innovations have become few and far between, replacement cycles have gotten longer, making it harder and harder for a company like Apple to keep growing or even maintaining revenue at its incredibly high level. Enter services, which provide Apple with a steady stream of recurring (and presumably high-margin) revenue, which, considering Apple‘s immense installed base of more than two billion active devices, was just too good an opportunity to pass on. Moreover, Apple‘s services are tightly integrated with its hardware, meaning they help with customer lock-in, i.e. binding users to the company’s ecosystem. The fact that customers can now do pretty much anything within Apple’s (in)famous „walled garden“ makes them even less likely to buy non-Apple devices when they‘re in the market for a new smartphone, laptop, tablet or smartwatch. Considering that Apple is still thought of as a hardware company and that it’s products grab most of the headlines, it’s easy to underestimate the size of Apple’s […]

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Microsoft has paused planning its 90-acre campus on the Westside of Atlanta, the company confirmed this week. The decision is part of companywide changes in business priorities to cut costs amid worsening economic conditions, which Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced in January . Microsoft is cutting 5% of its overall workforce, or around 10,000 employees, along with reevaluating its global real estate footprint. Microsoft is not selling the land and intends to re-engage in planning efforts if expansion is warranted, a company spokesperson said. Vendors were notified of the decision this week. Bisnow was first to report the news. Microsoft announced it was planning a 90-acre expansion to Grove Park in early 2021, where it intended to build its next corporate campus that could house around 15,000 employees. The company was engaged with the neighborhood from the start of the process and decided to set aside 25% of the land for community needs, including affordable housing, a grocery store, pharmacy and resources for job training opportunities. The site is next to the Bankhead MARTA station. An aerial view of Microsoft’s campus footprint. Microsoft The deal was monumental for Atlanta, which had become a home for the southeastern hubs for […]

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CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – The City of Corpus Christi contracts with businesses of all sizes and purchases a wide range of goods and services to get important work done for the community. Businesses are encouraged to learn more about how to work with the City by attending Doing Business With the City 101. The event will be held on Thursday, February 9, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the American Bank Center. Officials from the Finance & Procurement Department of the City of Corpus Christi will explain the procurement policy, the registration process, the supplier portal, and the online bidding system used to obtain bids, request for qualifications, and request for proposals. Registration is FREE. Participants will learn more about what the City buys, different types of bids, the online bidding process, and where to go for assistance. Representatives from various City departments will attend to discuss their unique business needs and upcoming procurement opportunities. After the presentation, attendees will have the opportunity to meet staff from: Parks & Recreation Asset Management – Facilities & Fleet Engineering Neighborhood Services – Code Enforcement Fire Department Participants are asked to register at https://cctx.info/3j8gDfu . Spaces are limited and will be […]

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