Wells Fargo has fired more than 100 employees who may have improperly received coronavirus relief funds, according to an internal memo reviewed by FOX Business on Wednesday. READ MORE
Zoom Adds Ability To Open Apps Like Dropbox And Slack, Event-Hosting Tools As Part Of Push Beyond Video Meetings
Zoom’s videoconferencing tools became ubiquitous in the pandemic. Now CEO Eric Yuan wants his software company to become more of a hub for other kinds of work. READ MORE
Zoom Finally Rolling Out End-To-End Encryption Next Week
Zoom will begin to roll out end-to-end encryption for all users next week, the company announced Wednesday, months after the video-chatting firm faced widespread backlash from civil liberties groups for only offering the feature to paid users. READ MORE
Uber, GE partner on aerial ride-sharing program
Uber and GE announced a new partnership Wednesday to transform the world through aerial ride-sharing on a large scale, as the aviation industry is reimagined for the post-pandemic era. READ MORE
Facebook reducing distribution of Hunter Biden story in New York Post
Facebook is limiting the distribution of a story in the New York Post about a purported email between Hunter Biden and an adviser to a Ukrainian energy company. READ MORE
Amy Coney Barrett could bring employer-friendly shift to SCOTUS
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's pick to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, could bring an employer-friendly shift to the High Court, management-side attorneys say. READ MORE
Why Silicon Valley CEOs are such raging psychopaths
Maëlle Gavet, a 15-year veteran of the tech industry, recalls an unsettling conversation she had at a Silicon Valley cocktail party in 2017. READ MORE
Warren Buffett Says This 1 Simple Habit Separates Successful People From Everyone Else
Billionaire Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is in his late eighties and still capturing the world's attention as the second richest person on the planet
So, how has he done it? Actually, it's not so much about what he has done as it is what he hasn't done. With all the demands on him every day, Buffett learned a long time ago that the greatest commodity of all is time. He simply mastered the art and practice of setting boundaries for himself. READ MORE
Wells Fargo CEO Sparks Controversy With Diversity Comments
Wells Fargo (WFC) - Get Report Chief Executive Charles Scharf reportedly sparked controversy in a Zoom meeting this summer when he reiterated that the bank had trouble reaching diversity goals because there was not enough qualified minority talent. READ MORE
How many Americans are working from home? Not as many as you may think
Since stay-at-home orders began in mid-March, the internet has been awash in articles about how Americans are adapting to this “new normal.” Plenty of sites have offered advice on how to be productive from home, interview from home, and maintain work-life balance. READ MORE
Hedge fund Bridgewater set up tent offices in the woods to beat COVID-19
Falling stocks … falling trees — it’s all part of a day’s work at Bridgewater.
Ray Dalio’s $138 billion hedge fund has set up tents in the woods across from its Westport, Conn., headquarters so that its traders and other staffers can continue to work from their desks during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. READ MORE
Walmart hits a grand slam with its TikTok deal with Oracle
Sam Walton could very well be smiling down on one of his disciples right now after hitting a dinger out of the ballpark. READ MORE
Companies are rushing to IPO before the election
With the presidential election looming and uncertainty growing about what will happen to the stock market and economy after that, private companies are racing to make their debuts on Wall Street. READ MORE
Goldman Sachs joins JPMorgan in announcing return to work after coronavirus office closures
The bank alerted staff that it was preparing for more employees to return to its offices around the world READ MORE
America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral
Intelligent Minds Like Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos Embrace the Rule of Awkward Silence.
Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos run two of the most valuable companies in the world. From the outside, they seem to exhibit very different personalities. But within their companies, both men are known for a fascinating practice:
They each embrace the rule of awkward silence. READ MORE
The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program is ripe for abuse
With the Congressional Budget Office recently reporting that our nation’s annual budget deficit for fiscal 2020 will hit $3.3 trillion, the largest deficit since World War II, this is a good time to re-examine some of the programs that got us here. READ MORE
Odds of coronavirus aid deal dim as Washington deadlock continues
A deadlock between White House officials and Democratic leaders over what to include in another coronavirus aid package has continued to persist more than one month after negotiations first collapsed, imperiling the chances of a stimulus deal before the November election. READ MORE
What to know about operating your business from home during COVID-19
The pandemic has forced some entrepreneurs like Joyce McNally, an Atlanta-based coach and owner of Say ‘YES’ Fitness, to adjust their business models.
“I’ve discovered that I love working from home. I set up classes in my living room and don’t have to travel,” says McNally, who began offering virtual classes and personalized training plans for clients earlier this year. READ MORE
When will the US recession end?
A majority of economists expect the U.S. to emerge from the coronavirus-induced recession — the worst downturn in nearly a century — by either late 2020 or sometime in 2021, according to a survey released Monday. READ MORE