Business News – 08-03-2021

Starlink now have nearly 90,000 users according to SpaceX

  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its Starlink satellite internet service now serves about 90,000 users around the globe
  • According to an update by the company on July 29, they say that the service has users in 12 countries 
  • Starlink’s new user total, which appears to count the number of households with a dish, marks the addition of about 20,000 users in the past month

CEO of Delta reports vaccines are hard to require if they aren’t fully approved

  • The CEO of Delta Airlines Ed Bastian has reported that the company will not be requiring Covid vaccines for domestic passengers 
  • Delta Air Lines is bouncing back from pandemic-induced bookings losses, saying more than 90% of the airline was fully booked in the past week

Tyson Foods to mandate their entire U.S. workforce to get vaccinated

  • Tyson Foods has recently reported that less than 50 percent of their employees in the U.S. have received the vaccine and they plan to give those workers who receive the vaccine a $200 bonus
  • The Covid-19 pandemic has caused many closures of meat and poultry packing facilities and has caused at least 132 worker deaths

PepsiCo’s Tropicana, Naked, and other juice brands to be sold for $3.3 billion 

  • PepsiCo has agreed to sell Tropicana, Naked, and other juice brands for pre-tax cash proceeds worth $3.3 billion
  • Pepsi has reported that they will use the proceeds to strengthen their balance sheet and invest back into other aspects of the business

By K Buenavista

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