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SpaceX blasts off from Delaware courts. Other companies keep landing there.

Hal Weitzman discusses Delaware's system of corporate governance.

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IWD 2024: Women-Led Plant-Based Companies Shaping the Future of Food

On International Women's Day, we celebrate the female-founded plant-based companies changing the future of food, one plate at a time.

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DOJ indicts former Google employee for stealing AI for China-owned companies

A federal grand jury indicted former Google employee Linwei Ding on Wednesday for allegedly stealing information from Google while secretly working for two Chinese technology companies. Ding has been...

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Trump Ready To Debate Biden 'Anytime, Anywhere, Anyplace': How Media Companies, Shareholders Could Be Ready To Benefit

Donald Trump is ready to debate Joe Biden on the stage for the 2024 election. With three scheduled debates, media companies could win big.

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UN Global Compact launches Guidebook to encourage companies to Empower Women in the Workplace

New York, United States of America, March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- To mark International Women’s Day, the UN Global Compact, the world's largest...

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2 Companies That Could Help Europe Win Its Energy War With Russia

Europe's energy crisis, driven by geopolitical factors, presents significant investment opportunities in LNG and domestic natural gas production.

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Tesla no longer in top 10 biggest US companies

Tesla lost $238 billion in value this year, and the company is no longer part of the top 10 biggest US companies.

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Missed the Nvidia rally? These 10 companies are buying its chips — and their stocks are rallying

Investors are ploughing their money into companies buying Nvidia's AI chips, and their share prices tend to rise and fall in tandem with the chip giant's.

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Yields Of Up to 9%: My Top 10 High Dividend Yield Companies For March 2024

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Chinese mining companies must process minerals in Laos before export

The order is aimed at creating more jobs – and at demanding more benefits for Laotians from Chinese-funded projects.

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Time to ‘cut off’ US outbound investment in China biotech firms: House panel

Bipartisan support on show amid concern ‘every bit of value flowing’ to companies in the industry ‘will be used to strengthen the CCP and the PLA’.

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IRS Issues Statement Warning Taxpayers of Companies Misrepresenting General Health Expenses as Medical Care on Tax Forms

Amid concerns about people being misled, the Internal Revenue Service reminded taxpayers and heath spending plan administrators that personal expenses for general health and wellness are not...

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SEC approves rule that requires some companies to publicly report emissions and climate risks

The rule was one of the most anticipated in recent years from the nation's top financial regulator.

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Why AgBioScience Companies are Making Indiana Home

We’ve given you some of the stats surrounding Indiana agriculture in recent weeks from the most recent USDA Census of Agriculture. Those stats include: being the number one producer in the country...

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Two Wilmington companies expand to international markets

Early this week, two local companies announced major expansions of their export activities and unveiled new international websites to facilitate sales abroad.   Monday, End of Days Distillery released information touting www.eoddistillery.eu, which will enable Europeans to order the company’s spirits directly from EOD’s representative in Berlin. The website “marks a significant milestone in the company's expansion efforts, aiming to better serve its growing customer base across Europe,” according to Shane Faulkner, who founded the distillery in 2020 with his wife Beth.   Over the past four years, EOD has grown its product line, pushed out its spirits to a broader network of sellers and added a kitchen to its Castle Street location. The company found its opportunity to enter the European market last year through contacts at the N.C. Department of Agriculture.   “In 2023 the Department of Agriculture took notice of us and made us aware of a program that’s sponsored by the NCDA and the Southern United States Trade Association, or SUSTA,” Faulkner said Thursday. “Through a sponsorship, they sent us to Germany for a large wine trade fair, ProWein, which had recently added spirits.”   Working with another North Carolina distillery and a few others from the southern U.S., Shane and his nephew and business partner Camron Faulkner put together a small trade delegation for the 2023 ProWein event last March.   “We got a phenomenal response from those tasting our spirits,” Shane Faulkner said. “People would ask, ‘How do we order your spirits?’ I had no idea. I was unprepared to take orders.”   Since then, Faulkner has continued to hear from potential customers in Germany and elsewhere. When End of Days and a Tennessee distillery were invited to Berlin to participate in January’s Whisky Week, the EOD team found more fans of their products.   “Everyone fell in love with our bourbon, rye, rum – every single product,” Faulkner said.   Faulkner connected with a friend who lives in the German capital. She offered to be an End of Days sales representative. Since then, the company has distilled a marketing plan and a partnership with a purveyor with locations in Hamburg and Berlin. The partner will stock EOD products and fulfill orders. The new website is EOD’s portal to European markets.   “We are ready to take orders in Germany and Estonia,” Faulkner said. “Hopefully, soon we’ll expand into France, Latvia and other areas. Two of our representatives are flying out Friday to the 2024 ProWein, which takes place Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in Dusseldorf.”   While the NCDA provided End of Days the initial connection to the European market and sponsored the company at ProWein, Faulkner said he had to figure out many aspects of international sales on his own.   “The Value-Added Tax, the way to ship high-proof alcohol, and [how to handle] the different quantities: in Europe the standard container is 700 ml, instead of the U.S. standard of 750 ml,” he said. “All these things I had to learn first-hand.”   International trade is not new to P2P Rescue, the Wilmington-based maker of water rescue boards and sleds. In fact, the company was among six winners of the North Carolina Governor’s Export Awards in 2018 and has worked closely with the state’s Economic Development Partnership in its expansion to foreign markets. The problem P2P has worked to overcome, said owner Cliff Ray, is how to supply customers in Europe and the UK most cost-effectively and efficiently. A new UK-domain website, announced Tuesday, helps address that problem.   P2P is one of perhaps only three providers of rescue boards and sleds in the world, according to Ray, and makes models geared for the varying coastlines in the UK and Europe as well as those in the United States. But until very recently, all products were shipped from Wilmington.   “During Covid, I started working with a partner [in the UK], Icon Sports,” Ray said Thursday. “I made many trips back and forth to the UK. They have had only one board provider. We met and talked to them and designed a board, with their input, that works well with their coastline. We just shipped our first container of boards to them.”   P2P’s new partner, Icon Sports, and new website, www.p2prescue.co.uk, should streamline the company’s international sales and shipping process. Supported by the new website and its stock of boards and sleds, Icon Sports will handle sales and product delivery. There’s just one little wrinkle, however: since the United Kingdom left the EU, there’s a 25% import fee levied for sales outside the UK.   Ray worked on that as Brexit regulations loomed. During the pandemic, he spent time in Thailand working with P2P’s manufacturer there to enable the manufacturer to ship directly to customers in Europe and the United Kingdom. Now, that factory, which makes P2P’s boards for the international market, and a factory in Taiwan, which makes the rescue sleds, can ship directly to customers outside the UK.   With its international sales network honed, Ray says P2P Rescue is developing its next product line, which it plans to announce next month. With rising waters and floods worldwide, Ray says there are more rescue needs that need to be met.

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I've Worked Remotely For Over 20 Years — 5 Common Mistakes Companies Make When It Comes to Remote Operations

Standard operating procedures unite employees and give them direction, and when working remotely, they are extra important. Don't make these five mistakes.

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Inspiring Woman working for your local utility companies

As the world celebrates international women’s day this week, we bring you the story of an inspiring woman working for your local utility companies.

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Ex-Google Engineer Charged With Stealing A.I. Secrets For Chinese Companies

Federal officials worry foreign adversaries could use generative AI to engage in covert influence operations to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

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SEC backs off on requiring companies to report scope 3 emissions

The Securities and Exchange Commission has withdrawn a rule that would have required reporting of scope 3 emissions, those related to companies’ supply chains.

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Amcham: US companies in Malaysia concerned about future tax-related policies

KUALA LUMPUR: Some 56% of US corporations in Malaysia are concerned about the government’s future policies with regard to tax-related issues, which co...

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