Patties of Beyond Meat Inc.’s plant-based burger Beyond Burger are cooked on a skillet. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Beyond Meat and PepsiCo announced Tuesday that they’ve formed a joint venture to create, produce and market snacks and drinks with plant-based substitutes. Shares of Beyond jumped as high as 16% in premarket trading on the
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A person wearing a protective mask arranges a table outside a restaurant in San Francisco, California, July 14, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images California will lift its stay-at-home order across the state on Monday, paving the way for restaurants and personal care services to reopen with modified operations for the first
Passengers arrive on a flight from London amid new restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at JFK International Airport in New York, December 21, 2020. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters President Joe Biden banned most non-U.S. citizens traveling from South Africa from entering the U.S. and extended travel restrictions for Europe, the U.K.
Budweiser’s Super Bowl “Lost Dog” ad. Source: Budweiser Budweiser will not be running a commercial during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years. Instead, the Anheuser-Busch InBev beer will use the marketing dollars to support Covid-19 vaccine awareness and access. As of Friday, roughly 39 million vaccines doses had been distributed and
WASHINGTON – The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Sunday that the federal government does not know how much coronavirus vaccine the nation has, a complication that adds to the already herculean task before the Biden administration. “I can’t tell you how much vaccine we have, and if I can’t tell it
The Falcon 9 rocket stands on the launchpad in Florida ahead of liftoff for the Transporter-1 mission. SpaceX SpaceX launched another rocket into the record books on Sunday with the first mission of its “rideshare” program carrying dozens of small satellites into space. The Falcon 9 rocket, which took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, carried
LOS ANGELES, CA – JULY 23: Talk show host Larry King attends the 68th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards at Television Academy on July 23, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Tullberg/Getty Images) Michael Tullberg | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Larry King, the legendary American broadcaster who was a fixture of
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference on April 18, 2017 at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Getty Images Big technology corporations including Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft have raced to create a pair of fashionable smart glasses readily embraced by consumers, but 2021 is shaping up
Rising coronavirus infection rates, and the accompanying wave of lockdowns across Europe, should prompt managers to spend more time considering their employees’ mental health, according to the CEO of staffing group Adecco. “Especially with … the second wave of lockdowns coming in, we need more emotionally intelligent leaders, because we see that many people are
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) at Downing Street on January 15, 2021 in London, England. Dominic Lipinski | Getty Images LONDON —There is “some evidence” a new Covid variant first identified in the U.K. could be more deadly than the original strain, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson