The number of women-owned businesses has been exploding, but not in one part of the economy where you'd expect it to be: digital-only businesses. The number of women-owned businesses grew 58% between 2007-2018, according to the American Express 2018 State of Women-Owned Business, compared with 12% for all businesses.
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Why Broadcom's Rumored $15-Billion Acquisition Of Symantec Makes Sense
Symantec Corp. signage is displayed outside of the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Quest For Strategic Deployable Solutions Fuels BP's Venture Funding Arm, Says Its Boss
Faced with an evolving global energy mix, practically every major player in the oil and gas business is seeking avenues to gain a competitive advantage as well as meet the obligation of a lower carbon footprint.
New Research Agenda Announced For Malaria Elimination And Eradication
A new research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication is laid out in a collection of review articles, led by Regina Rabinovich and colleagues of the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA), in this week's PLOS Medicine
Marc Andreessen And Bradley Tusk Invest In New $25 Million Vices Fund
Venture capital firm Vice Ventures has launched a $25 million fund that will focus on early-stage startups from non-traditional verticals including, cannabis, alcohol, CBD, e-sports, addiction recovery, sex tech, and others. The fund does not invest in products that are intended to hurt people, though, Founding Partner Catharine Dockery told Bloomberg TV, bringing up the example of guns.
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Investing in currencies may sound like a lucrative, exotic venture – and it can be – but it takes knowledge, skill, and experience to succeed. At one time, the forex market was largely dominated by institutional investors and banks, but now, there are online brokerages and margin trading accounts that have made this form of investing accessible to everyone.
Venice, California - Miss Grass is a modern, elevated online magazine with captivating content and an e-commerce destination for modern cannabis consumers. Co-founded by Kate Miller and Dosist alumna Anna Duckworth, the cannabis cultural tour-de-force - dubbed the "Goop of cannabis" by W Magazine- just closed a $4 million funding round.
Bitcoin prices fell to less than $10,000 today, down close to 30% from their recent high of nearly $14,000 reached on Wednesday, June 26th. The digital currency dropped to $9,986.26 at roughly 11:40 a.m. EDT, CoinDesk data shows.
Endeavor is planning to go public this year. The prospectus bills the company as the only one-stop shopping platform for many of the world's top models, sports, media, and Hollywood assets in the world.
Looking at the underlying holdings of the ETFs in our coverage universe at ETF Channel, we have compared the trading price of each holding against the average analyst 12-month forward target price, and computed the weighted average implied analyst target price for the ETF itself.
This is a lesson for traders. Extreme pessimism is normally a buying opportunity. This is a lesson for traders. Extreme pessimism is normally a buying opportunity.
Bitcoin has been on a tear lately, powering above the $10,000 mark last weekend just under two months after crossing the $5,000 level and causing analysts and investors to ask whether this time really could be different.
Three weeks ago, Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques were celebrating alongside other graduates of Harvard Business School's class of 2019 and soaking in the advice of their commencement speaker, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who lectured on restoring "faith in the promise of America and the future of the American dream."
Optimistic thinking is leading people to set up businesses that have no realistic prospect of financial success, shows new research which may help explain why only fifty per cent of businesses in the UK survive their first five years.
