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Business News – 09-22-2021

K Buenavista — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:46:01 +0000

Sales of Electric Vehicles are expected to increase from an estimated 350,000 cars in 2021 to more than 1 million by 2025, says LMC Automotive
Ford and its battery manufacturing partner SK Innovations will ensure a consistent supply of essential metals like lithium, nickel, and copper for EVs

Despite the growth of remote work and the decline in the New York office market, Google’s $2.1 billion deal to buy a Manhattan office building adds rapid growth to Silicon Alley
The building was the St. John’s Terminal on the West Side of Manhattan where the company had been leasing 1.3 million square feet but decided to buy the space

K Buenavista — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:44:51 +0000

On November 3, Democratic lawmakers unveiled their new social spending and climate provision that increases the EV tax credit of up to $12,500 for higher prices vehicles
According to this new update, vans, SUVs, and trucks prices up to $80,000 will be eligible for the full tax credit

With the help of UK based company Ocado, Kroger is opening automated warehouses across the United States
According to Kroger, the robots will help to retrieve bags of items like fruit, meat, and more to speed up the fulfillment of customers’ grocery orders
Once the groceries are gathered for an order, Korger will have their fleet of delivery drivers drop off the bagged groceries to the customer

According to the US Court of Federal Claims, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin lost against NASA over $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to SpaceX
In a statement in defense of Blue Origin, its spokesperson said that the company’s lawsuit “highlighted the important safety issues with the Human Landing system procurement process that must still be addressed’

According to the World Health Organization, Europe is facing another spike in COVID-19 cases
The WHO has two main reasons for Europe’s soaring case numbers which are low vaccination coverage and less strict public health and social measures

Two large tech companies CME Group Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have made a deal to move Google’s core trading systems to the cloud
Google will invest a total of $1 billion into this project

K Buenavista — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:47:22 +0000

Today (Wednesday), President Joe Biden has announced his new anti-crime efforts
Biden’s plan is mainly addressing gun violence and to provide more funding to those cities who are in need of more police
Biden will have a “zero tolerance” policy (different from Trump’s) which will give no flexibility to gun dealers who do not comply with federal laws concerning the selling of firearms

Today (Wednesday) A House panel was led with legislation that has the potential to take market power for from the “tech giants” such as Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Google
This new legislation could force the companies to disconnect their platforms from other lines of their business
This is meant to allow breathing space for new innovators in many areas of the tech industry

K Buenavista — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:05:51 +0000

Google’s new site in San Jose is a church at 56 S. Montgomery St. in the downtown area which cost them $11.7 million in cash
This area that Google has purchased is a key component in assembling the land they need to develop an all new transit-oriented neighborhood
This goal of developing the downtown San Jose neighborhood began in December of 2016 where Google purchased a bakery and an old telephone company
In total, Google has spent around $470.7 million on purchasing parcels by the Diridon train station along with the SAP Center in downtown San Jose

Nevada, San Solano, Sacramento, and San Joaquin counties are now transitioning to orange tier (a.k.a the moderate tier of COVID regulations)
For outdoor gathering, 50 people are allowed and Indoor is largely discouraged with a maximum of 25% capacity
In concerns to Private events; Private events have an outdoor capacity of 100 people and an indoor maximum of 150 (if all are vaccinated)
Most paces in these counties like restaurants, churches, movie theaters, hotels, etc. Are limited to either 50%, 25% or 15% capacity and will vary by service

Yesterday on May 31, an LAPD airplane made an emergency landing on a very busy highway here in California
Luckily no one was injured and the plane touched down a bit before 7 p.m. local time on the U.S. 101 at about 35 miles north of LA