Author: Gené Teare
Thirteen companies spanning sectors from AI to energy and professional services joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in July, while five had exits, a hopeful signal for the hundreds of well-funded companies stabled on the board. Here’s what happened last month.Read More
South African business confidence climbed to a four-month high, signaling a better operating climate, although uncertainty from US President Donald Trump‘s tariffs threatens to reverse the gains.Read More
South African business confidence rose in July, helped by higher new vehicle sales, rising manufacturing output, strong precious metals prices and well-contained inflation, data showed on Wednesday.Read More
Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business has opened the first of two phases of its $58 million Music Row expansion.Read More
One of the Houston business owners charged with bribery following our ‘DRAINED’ Investigation into Houston’s contract corruption scandal, is scheduled to receive more than $8 million this week. This is for work completed on an unrelated city project.Read More
Brandon Calloway will lead a 10-mile walk Aug. 15 to showcase 24 Black-owned businesses along Troost Avenue, challenging decades-old stigmas about Kansas City’s former racial dividing line.Read More
Paul Christen helped build Twins owner Carl Pohlad’s first bottling business. Christen was a notable banker and philanthropist in South Dakota.Read More
The letters the Congressmen sent challenge the leagues to defend the antitrust protection they are afforded by the Sports Broadcasting Act.Read More
Whether there’s confetti falling from your team’s last title or you’re still waiting to see your first, you probably have an idea of how satisfied – or miserable – you are as a fan. But could you put a number on it?Read More
Though crime is down in Washington, the data shows a real gap between the statistics and how unsafe many citizens, especially Black women, feel.Read More