Financial Assistance for the Affected Businesses Federal, state, and local governments are trying to lessen the impact that the COVID-19 virus crisis has on companies. As the coronavirus outbreak forces people to take extra precautions and avoid crowded places, businesses are suffering. In New York City, for example, some restaurants are experiencing declines in sales of as […]
Coronavirus Is Affecting Apple, Samsung And Others A security guard checks the temperature of customers at the entrance of an Apple store in Shanghai on February 28, 2020. – China reported 44 more deaths from the novel coronavirus epidemic on February 28 and 327 fresh cases, the lowest daily figure for new infections in more than […]
Coronavirus Hurting Business Around The World Coronavirus fears have led to consumers rushing to Costco to stockpile on products from toilet paper to shelf-stable grocery. The wholesale club said those concerns have driven higher demand in the last week of February. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images) AFP VIA GETTY […]
Startups Should Be Preparing for Coronavirus An investor and serial entrepreneur shares what he’s learned speaking with epidemiologists and founders. Will coronavirus become a pandemic? What would that mean for the economy? What are businesses and the government doing to prevent (or at least slow) its spread? My Inc.com colleagues are all over these questions, reporting […]
The Week in Business: It Was All About the Coronavirus I’m going to do my taxes this week. There, I said it. Maybe now I’ll actually follow through. Or I’ll spend the week wandering from supermarket to supermarket, stocking up on canned soup. The coronavirus has been rattling the business world since January, but this week […]
