One of the newsroom’s big challenges is keeping track of all the comings and goings in the local business community. This week’s stories show a bit of our work in tracking the various kinds of comings and goings, and to explain what it all means. We h...
Hawaii Venture Capital Association held a panel discussion on public markets and the forecasted coming economic crash on Wednesday. Coincidentally, the stock market took a hit the same day, inverting the yield curve after an 800-point decline for the D...
Investors remain wary over global economy as S&P warns it is on "high alert" in the United States.
A $1.3 million, or $0.16 per share, loss was reported by Honolulu-based oil and gas company Barnwell Industries Inc. (NYSE: BRN) over the three month quarter ending in June. At the end of the December 2018 quarter, the company reported that the CEO an...
Her theme song is Beyonce's “Formation” — a tribute to strong women that's about seeing and pursuing what you want.
More than 100 companies headquartered in the Austin area were featured on the 2019 Inc. 5000 list released Aug. 14. Cece's Veggie Co. was the clear frontrunner, clocking in at No. 3 nationally on the magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest-growing privat...
A former secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has applied to become Florida’s top financial regulator. Bryan A. Schneider, who held the Illinois post from 2015 until early this year, applied this week to becom...
Will Bay Area-based banks become acquisition targets as big banks enter the market?
As Signature Bank of New York and Stifel mine the former Square 1 Bank for talent, Pacific West announces it’s beefing up its own venture banking group.
Venmo, a payments app owned by PayPal, announced Monday that it is adding an instant bank transfer option, allowing users to send and receive money instantly — for a small fee. Previously, Venmo users could send and receive funds by linking their bank...
Atlas Technical Consultants Inc. is set to become the Austin area's next public company, and it's reaching the stock market via a novel route that has been gaining popularity in recent years. The engineering company announced Aug. 13 it is going publi...
Wells Fargo & Co. is scaling back operations at a customer service center in Shoreview, Minn., a move that will result in 400 job cuts in the coming months. The Star Tribune reports on the cuts by San Francisco-based Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), which di...