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20/04/202311/07/2024

BuzzFeed will close news division

Pulitzer Prize winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division and cut another 15 percent of its staff across the company, adding to layoffs made earlier this year.

BuzzFeed has approximately 1,200 total employees, according to a recent regulatory filing.

In a memo sent to staff, co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said that in addition to the news division, layoffs would take place in its business, content, tech and administrative teams. BuzzFeed is also considering making job cuts in international markets.

Peretti said in a memo to staff that he “made the decision to overinvest” in the

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20/04/202311/07/2024

ChatGPT may be able to predict stock movements: finance professor

ChatGPT could be the next stock forecaster, according to this finance professor

Alejandro Lopez-Lira, a finance professor at the University of Florida, says that large language models may be useful when forecasting stock prices.

He used ChatGPT to parse news headlines for whether they’re good or bad for a stock, and found that ChatGPT’s ability to predict the direction of the next day’s returns were much better than random, he said in a recent unreviewed paper.

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20/04/202311/07/2024

TSMC Uneasy About Sharing Business Plans, Profit With US Government

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is eager to negotiate some of the conditions set by the US government as part of the landmark CHIPS for America Act which aims to stimulate domestic semiconductor fabrication in the United States. The new set of laws was passed last year, and the Commerce Department opened the first round of funding for applications for the grant at the close of February. These applications are subject to various restrictions, some of

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18/04/202311/07/2024

SCORE and SBA to Co-Host National Small Business Week Virtual Summit May 2-3

Published: Apr. 18, 2023 at 9:02 AM MDT|Updated: 8 hours ago

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — SCOREmentors to America’s small businesses, will co-host the 2023 National Small Business Week Virtual Summit with the US Small Business Administration on May 2-3. The free, two-day online event will celebrate the hard-earned success of small businesses throughout the country, while also sharing best practices for utilizing technology and other tools to facilitate growth.

The National Small Business Week Virtual Summit is a free, two-day online event co-hosted by... — The National Small Business Week Virtual Summit is a free, two-day online event co-hosted by SCORE and the US Small Business Administration.

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16/04/202311/07/2024

Small business awards scheduled, new office for Butler Snow | business

Louisiana Small Business Awards set for May 3

The 2023 Louisiana Small Business Awards will be held at 6 pm May 3 at the Capitol Park Museum, 660 N. 4th St., Baton Rouge.

The event honors the small business person of the year, the US Small Business Administration Champions and the recipients of the Louisiana Economic Development Entrepreneur Awards.

Admission is free, but guests must register by April 23. To register, go to smallbusinessawards2023.eventbrite.com

Local Black-owned restaurant open at LSU

TBeaux’s Creole Cafe is open in Foster Hall, the first Black-owned restaurant on the LSU campus.

The restaurant is owned

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16/04/202311/07/2024

Taxes are due Tuesday in only 3 of 58 California counties

Only three of California’s 58 counties need their taxes filed by Tuesday — every other county has until Oct. 16 due to the series of atmospheric river storms that swept the state this winter.

The unusual split in tax dates is to give California residents and businesses impacted by power outages, flooding and deadly storms more time to file their federal and state income tax returns. All counties that were impacted by federal or state emergency declarations are eligible for the extension, which means every Bay Area county is included.

California’s Franchise Tax Board and the IRS are allowing the

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16/04/202311/07/2024

Small businesses need balanced tech solutions

When your local business competes against national giants, you need all the help you can get.

I opened a clothing boutique in Austin nearly 20 years ago. For all of that time — through recessions, a pandemic, and myriad small-scale crises — we’ve strived and scraped to give Austin a personal alternative to the giant department stores that occupy huge swaths of shopping malls in our city and many others.

Our competitors advertise during national championships and awards shows. Their logos and goods pop up on most of the websites and news pages you read — quite possibly including this

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16/04/202311/07/2024

Haivision Rejects Revised Non-Binding Expression of Interest

MONTREAL, April 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – Haivision Systems Inc. (“Haivision” or the “Company”) HI announces that its board of directors (the “Board”) has unanimously determined that the unsolicited, revised non-binding expression of interest received from Evertz Technologies Limited on April 14, 2023 is not in the best interests of Haivision and its stakeholders, and that Haivision should remain focused on executing its business plan and growth strategy.

The revised non-binding expression of interest outlines a proposal to acquire Haivision for $4.75 per share in cash. On March 23, 2023Haivision announced that its Board had unanimously determined that the

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