Business News - breaking international news, videos and headlines - francispointbb.com https://francispointbb.com/category/business/ Sat, 28 Oct 2023 04:12:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://francispointbb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-загружено-1-32x32.jpg Business News - breaking international news, videos and headlines - francispointbb.com https://francispointbb.com/category/business/ 32 32 Rise in Sugar and Cocoa Costs Makes Halloween Candy Pricier https://francispointbb.com/business/rise-in-sugar-and-cocoa-costs-makes-halloween-candy-pricier/ Sat, 28 Oct 2023 04:12:31 +0000 https://francispointbb.com/?p=27972 Low rainfall in places like Mexico, India and Ivory Coast could lead to lighter sacks of candy for trick-or-treaters this Halloween, as disappointing sugar and cocoa harvests have pushed up candy prices. The price of candy is up 7.5 percent from last year and 20 [...]

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]]> Infinity Labs, cybersecurity company, picks Colorado Springs to expand https://francispointbb.com/business/infinity-labs-cybersecurity-company-picks-colorado-springs-to-expand/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:34:34 +0000 https://francispointbb.com/?p=27796 A company specializing in cybersecurity and advanced research and development has chosen Colorado Springs as its new home and plans to add 61 new jobs. Infinity Labs, currently based in Dayton, Ohio, plans to increase modeling and simulation support for the Department of Defense, the Colorado [...]

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]]> Cherry Cricket owner submits plans for office building nextdoor https://francispointbb.com/business/cherry-cricket-owner-submits-plans-for-office-building-nextdoor/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:33:50 +0000 https://francispointbb.com/?p=27768 The plans are in for an office building slated to go up next to the Cherry Cricket restaurant in Cherry Creek. The restaurant’s Denver-based parent company Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC, along with local developer Alpine Investments, plan to construct a building that will top out at eight [...]

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]]> Denver Tech Center, Belleview Station show how COVID changed workplaces https://francispointbb.com/business/denver-tech-center-belleview-station-show-how-covid-changed-workplaces/ Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:29:06 +0000 https://francispointbb.com/?p=27634 The developers of Belleview Station, south of downtown Denver and just west of Interstate 25, have been on both sides of the area’s real estate market. The family that owns Front Range Land and Development, the company behind the  mixed-use project, sold part of its [...]

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]]> An Evolving Salt Lake City Hopes to Be ‘Just Like Austin’ https://francispointbb.com/business/an-evolving-salt-lake-city-hopes-to-be-just-like-austin/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:33:16 +0000 https://francispointbb.com/?p=27554 When Dino Fusco began traveling to Salt Lake City in the early 2000s for Goldman Sachs’s real estate arm, the odds of finding a coffee shop or brewpub were essentially zero. The influence of the generally conservative Mormon community over state politics and social issues [...]

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]]> One of the Biggest Cable Companies Says Cable TV Isn’t Working https://francispointbb.com/business/one-of-the-biggest-cable-companies-says-cable-tv-isnt-working/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:50:42 +0000 https://francispointbb.com/?p=27544 One of the biggest cable companies in the United States has a message for media companies, its major partners in a decades-old business: The traditional cable-TV model is broken, and it needs to be fixed or abandoned. Cable TV has become too expensive for consumers [...]

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]]> 85,000 Highchairs Recalled After Reports of Two Dozen Falls https://francispointbb.com/business/85000-highchairs-recalled-after-reports-of-two-dozen-falls/ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 22:04:26 +0000 https://francispointbb.com/?p=27540 More than 85,000 highchairs sold online and at retailers across North America are being recalled after reports of two dozen falls related to the chairs, according to federal regulators. TOMY International, a toy and nursery company, is voluntarily recalling about 83,000 Boon Flair and Flair [...]

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]]> Past Drones and Sea Mines, a Merchant Ship’s Perilous Journey in Ukraine https://francispointbb.com/business/past-drones-and-sea-mines-a-merchant-ships-perilous-journey-in-ukraine/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 05:31:04 +0000 https://francispointbb.com/?p=27504 For five weeks, almost everything seemed to go wrong for one commercial vessel waiting in the Danube River to load Ukrainian grain bound for Spain via the Black Sea. First, Russian drones exploded mere miles away from where the vessel was anchored. Then, heavy congestion [...]

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