A patient lies on a stretcher in a hallway near other patients in the congested emergency room at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid an increase in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on January 5, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Nearly 3,000 people die on average from Covid-19 every day…

Dan Kan (from left to right), COO of Cruise Automation, Kyle Vogt, CEO of Cruise Automation, and Dan Ammann, President of General Motors, Tuesday, November 20, 2018, in the Cruise Automation offices in San Francisco, California. Source: Noah Berger | General Motors The co-founder and president of Cruise, General Motors’ majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, predicts…

Marc Romanelli | Tetra Pictures | Getty Images The Covid-19 crisis has hit small businesses in Latino particularly hard, including the fact that they are unable to access PPP funds at a rate similar to other entrepreneurs. And many sole proprietorships or small family businesses may be feeling the effects of Covid more directly as…

The December unemployment results could revive the “bad news is good news” sentiment on Wall Street and increase the possibility of further government incentives, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. According to the Labor Department on Friday, the number of non-farm workers fell for the first time since April last month as coronavirus transmission rates remain…

Memory and storage are an integral part of the digital transformation that will act as the key business driver for Micron Technology through 2022, Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of the memory chip maker, told CNBC on Friday. While the adoption of digital technologies in businesses has been accelerated by job relocations due to the coronavirus pandemic,…

What is “perseverance”? A word that the beloved “Jeopardy!” Hosts Alex Trebek and James Gilligan, a candidate on Trebek’s last episode. Gilligan is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at San Francisco State University who has tried to be a candidate on the iconic show for 30 years. “I’ve tried it since I…

Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, warned The News with Shepard Smith that the US is “flying blind” and “guessing” when it comes to a highly transmissible new variant of coronavirus in the country. “We don’t know because we don’t do genomic sequencing of the virus the way we…

US Small Business Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza speaks as US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listens to a House Small Business Committee hearing in Washington, DC Erin Scott | Getty Images The Paycheck Protection Program will reopen on January 11th. It provides loans to small businesses to no avail and allows certain cash-strapped businesses to borrow…

Health care workers prepare to get vaccinations for Pfizer Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Los Angeles, California on January 7, 2021. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters The White House coronavirus task force said there could be a new variant of the virus that has emerged in the United States and is driving the spread, according to a…

Manager Pat Ryan stands at the counter at the Pig Pit BBQ in Cohoes, NY on December 9, 2020. The pandemic has knocked down business on Boston Water Street. Craig F. Walker | Boston Globe | Getty Images With the Paycheck Protection Program relaunched, small business owners and advocates eagerly await access to much-needed lifelines…